| From: Bugle-up
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Any thoughts on what causes this bare patch on a bucks back? I've seen it on bucks on videos as well.
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| From: 2 bears
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Going under wire fences. >>>>-----> Ken
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| From: deerhunt51
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Me thinks he ducked an arrow!!!
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| From: Pa Steve
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Hair rubbed off from parasites or ticks? I've also seen that on a fair amount of deer.
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| From: TrapperKayak
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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He's the Mayor of Whoville.
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| From: BigJim
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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| BigJim is a Stickbow.com Sponsor - Website |
fences.
bigjim
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| From: nibler
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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| nibler is a Stickbow.com Sponsor - Website |
brawling with other deer
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| From: Supernaut
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Male pattern baldness.
Crossing under a fence or some other obstruction on a regular basis would be my real guess.
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| From: 4nolz@work
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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He was rubbing a spalted maple and an instinctive shooter without a coach shot too high
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| From: Bowmania
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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He was going to town and stopped at the barber.
Bowmania
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| From: GF
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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I miss read the title of the thread, and I was staring at that rack thinking… I just… Don’t… See…
I don’t know about this guy, but I did once see a fallen tree angled directly over a deer bed, with a bunch of hair, a little fat, and some blood smeared on the underside of the downed tree.
My best guess was that he got bumped really, REALLY HARD and jumped up so fast that he slammed into the tree.
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| From: Sawtooth (Original)
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Ducking beneath the same place in a fence. But I think he’s got bigger problems at the moment. :)
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| From: RymanCat
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Yotte attack?
He lays on his back and scratches like a dog? LOL
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| From: grizz
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Going under fences.
But male pattern baldness was an excellent response. ;-)
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| From: George D. Stout
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Yep, fences. A deer will always go under a fence if given the time to do it versus jumping.
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| From: TrapperKayak
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Matt, I found a dead 5x5 bull under a fallen tree, in its bed once in MT. Killed it dead... :)
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| From: Carcajou
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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But Deer Typically JUMP fences, Picture a Buck with horns, crawling commando style under a fence...
That particular pic shows the rub farther back than most. Normally a buck with a larger rack will tend to rub the same couple of spots on his back near his shoulders, when continually hitting licking branches,above scrapes.
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| From: Orion
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Would like to see a head on pix of the area. There's a good chance it was cut by a broadhead. I gave a doe a haircut like that quite a few years ago. The rest of the fall, it was very easy to identify at a distance after that. Hair may have grown back sufficiently after a year or so because I wasn't able to see any such markings on the deer I saw in the same area a year later..
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| From: TrapperKayak
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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I've seen both - bucks jump, and crawl under fences. Most amazing thing I have seen was a very large racked buck crawl under a 4 strand that the bottom strand was no higher that 10" above the ground. He ducked his head just right to get it under and continues through with one fluid motion, rather fast. Amazing agility and strength in these critters. I called in a 5 pt bull once along a 4 foot high fence, and it got too close so I stood up, his eyes bugged out, and he jumped from a dead standstill clear over that fence like it wasn't even there. Didn't catch a hair. I find deer hair all the time on fences around here, both on the top and bottom strands.
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| From: Kodiak
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Could've been anything.
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| From: 2 bears
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Don't know about that particular buck. I find regular fence crossings by looking for hair on the wire strands. By hunting those crossings I have seen many go under and a few work their way between strands of barbwire. In areas of many poor fences a lot of deer have a bald spot on their back.>>>----> Ken
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| From: Bugle-up
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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That's the best picture I have of the bald spot. Now I wish I had taken a closer look and taken a better picture. I only thought to post this thread after seeing a buck in a video with the same bald patch. I don't think his antlers are large enough to have made that rub spot when licking branches and there aren't many fences in our area, but all it would take is one fence that he ducks regularly I guess. That maybe sounds the most plausible at this point other than the notion he got creased by a broadhead which is possible too.
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| From: GUTPILE PA
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Fences I shot a few like that and it was always around a farmers land with a fence
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| From: Osage Outlaw
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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My buck from last year had that. There was even a small bloody spot in the bald spot. My guess would be from fences but we don't have many in our area.
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| From: George D. Stout
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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I go by what I've seen in field, both deer going under fences, and the hair caught on lower strands...or rub marks on lower strands. Around here, deer, if they have room, will always go under unless they are pushed or chasing does. Your mileage may vary of course but that hair on the bottom strand isn't put there by accident.
About a dozen years ago, we had a pretty large buck going under the fence that borders our mountain land in a field just below the woods line. That bottom strand was about eighteen inches off the ground and he had no trouble slipping under it.
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| From: GF
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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And I do like the clipped backline explanation.... If you’ve never hit a deer so high in the backline that you were certain that you had missed clean, you probably will at some point.
That’s why I no longer remind myself to not shoot over. If you CHECK the backline, that’s where you’re looking. Helpful hint - NEVER LOOK where you DON’T want to hit.
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| From: 76aggie
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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I also think it is caused by going under a fence. Granted, many just jump but many crawl as well. I have see a mature buck running at full speed drop and go under a fence.
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| From: Don
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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You don’t see it on does. Only bucks. Scratching back with antlers.
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| From: Rick Barbee
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| Date: 05-Dec-19 |
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Fence. I've seen that a lot.
It's from where they go under a fence, and after they've done it enough they often get a bald spot, and the hair starts kind of combing backward.
It might not be a fence per say, but definitely from repeatedly going under something, and giving himself a hairdo after a while.
Rick
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| From: deerme
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| Date: 06-Dec-19 |
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A couple of weeks ago, I arrowed a buck and he took off running ninety to nothing and side swiped a tree, fell dead twenty yards later. I followed the blood trail to him even though I knew where he lay and noticed where he had hit the tree lots of hair lodged in the bark and gobs of hair lying about the ground. Sure enough I found a bald patch on the deer that would have matched up to the tree. Oddly enough there was no hickey at the bald site but then again at that point his blood pressure was quite low I'm sure.
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| From: David McLendon
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| Date: 06-Dec-19 |
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He wasn't scratching that far back with those antlers, that's a fence rub.
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| From: GBTG
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| Date: 06-Dec-19 |
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I'm with Carcajou and Don. It's not caused by fences.
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| From: David McLendon
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| Date: 06-Dec-19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0immRNM40
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