bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
Haven't been very active on the forum the past two years due to dealing with storm damage down my way (Tallahassee FL) after suffering hits from Hurricane Idalia, tornado strike in May of 2024, Hurricane Debby, and Hurricane Helene. All that said, itching to put together a few new YouTube videos up on my channel and one I'm most interested in piecing together will focus on the complex / little understood nature of Whitetail deer aggression.
In the video I'll talk about (and share clips showing) how aggressions are exhibited year round, are common not just among bucks, but also does and even fawns, and finally how buck agression ramps up during the rut but still more often than not involves posturing and lighter sparring matches versus mortal combat.
Which brings me to my point in posting. In speaking to TRULY aggressive fights that can be mortal I'd like to share at least a few seconds of footage showing a VERY aggressive fight among mature bucks... but despite having saved 30,000+ trail camera clips with hundreds showing lighter sparring matches and / or big mature bully bucks backing down smaller bucks simply by aggressively approaching them, I don't actually have video of two mature bucks fighting all that hard. Despite many nicer bucks on my place ending up with broken tines each year, they've managed to do their most aggressive fighting off camera.
GLADLY give video credit in the description of my video AND / OR even credit on screen while the video shows... just feel I need to include at least one REAL buck fight in a video focused on deer aggression!
In the video I'll talk about (and share clips showing) how aggressions are exhibited year round, are common not just among bucks, but also does and even fawns, and finally how buck agression ramps up during the rut but still more often than not involves posturing and lighter sparring matches versus mortal combat.
Which brings me to my point in posting. In speaking to TRULY aggressive fights that can be mortal I'd like to share at least a few seconds of footage showing a VERY aggressive fight among mature bucks... but despite having saved 30,000+ trail camera clips with hundreds showing lighter sparring matches and / or big mature bully bucks backing down smaller bucks simply by aggressively approaching them, I don't actually have video of two mature bucks fighting all that hard. Despite many nicer bucks on my place ending up with broken tines each year, they've managed to do their most aggressive fighting off camera.
GLADLY give video credit in the description of my video AND / OR even credit on screen while the video shows... just feel I need to include at least one REAL buck fight in a video focused on deer aggression!
