Texas Game and Fish, Volume 12, Number 11, October 1954 Page: 6
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DEER
There are many misconceptions about deer signs and how to read them.
Veteran and beginning hunters alike should profit by these tips from the
author of the new book "Hunting the White-Tailed Deer in Texas."By FREDERICK H. WESTON
Sad is the tale of the deer hunter who goes afield
each season without success. His luck is always bad,
the weather is never right; there are never anything
but does and fawns in his pasture; or the landowner
from whom he leased let all his kinfolks hunt or -day-
lease during the week. The story is always the same
no matter who tells it. There are a lot of tellers, too,
for the percentage of hunters who kill bucks each year
is very small indeed for the number who hunt deer.
Certain it is that luck and weather play a part in
a successful hunt, but by and large, the majority of
landowners protect with a passion the rights of theirseason hunters. True, too, is the fact that doe deer
outnumber bucks in the Hill Country, where the bulk
of the hunting is done in Texas, but where there are
does and fawns, there must be bucks.
The fact is, there are bucks. The presence of fawr s
proves this, because there had to be bucks the year
before to beget young, and the bucks didn't move on
in the meantime because Texas whitetails do not
migrate over great distances as is popularly believed.
Neither did they die off, if does are still present, be-
cause the mortality rate of adult deer in die-offs -s
higher among the does than bucks.Rubs are easy to see as they loom up by contrast as bared areas
on saplings. They are made by bucks rubbing their velvet on cor-
venient trees. Scrapes are pawed-out areas on the ground on th
edges of openings in brush adjacent to trails habitually used by deer.TEXAS GAME AND FIS4
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