Awesome Bucks in Rut

Video shows some big, monster bucks running, jumping, fighting, and chasing, hunting, and mating with doe.

Thanksgiving and the holiday season are the general start of hunting season. The Native Americans and Pilgrims hunted game for the first Thanksgiving.

Not only is it hunting season for people, it also is for deer as they hunt each other in the fall rut, as shown. At this time of year deer behave in erratic ways.

Several buck with large antlers - at least 10 point - are shown. Some of the bucks are large and so heavy that their skin ripples when they run. Several are not only quite heavy, but also have manes - big dark areas around their shoulders, such as at 1.29 and 2.12.

A very weird mating is shown between two deer that each have 1 antler (unicorn deer). This may be a rare antlered female or a mating between two bucks. One is somewhat melanistic (dark coloration), which is even rarer than white or piebald coloration.

** Some of the world's largest bucks live in Ohio. Some of its world champion bucks have Boone and Crockett scores of over 300 points. Ohio's Beatty Buck may be the (or among the) largest ever taken by a hunter. That title of the largest whitetail, ever, in the record books belongs to the "Missouri Monarch," a 333-7/8 buck found dead on the side of a road in 1982 near St. Louis. In second place is the legendary "Hole in the Horn," found dead in Ohio in 1940, however, many whitetail experts think that it is actually the largest set of whitetail deer antlers in history. It may be the most famous whitetail known.

The male white-tailed deer, or buck (Odocoileus virginianus - normally called the whitetail), can weigh up to around 500 pounds http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:7cLce5HsdasJ:espn.go.com/outdoors/huntin...
and the female up to 175 pounds. Males of one year or older have antlers. Young bucks with very small antlers are called button bucks. When the antlers begin to grow in the late spring, they are covered with a very vascular tissue known as velvet or moss. This drops off later. The Boone & Crockett scoring system is used to rate antlers or racks. Bucks shed their antlers at the end of breeding season (rut). Some female deer also have antlers. The piebald or white deer, a deer having more white than normal but not an albino, is very rare.

Deer have an amazing assortment of communicative signs. Approximately 100 different vocalizations have been recorded, such as tending grunts, dominant grunts, bleats, and many others. They make extensive use of sign language. The whitetail is found throughout most of the U.S., southern Canada, Central America, and in the northern portions of South America. It is a generalist, which can adapt to a wide variety of habitats, including woodland, open savanna, and even sage areas.

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[IrenaScott]

A nice comment was added here and I accidentally deleted it. The question was asked if we had mule deer here and we don't so far as I know.

[MrJtkluz]

Looks like Missouri woods

[ferociousgumby]

I'D marry that doe.

[flippinaarin]

@YamiPoyo The rut is the mating period for the Whitetail Deer, usually when does push away their last years fawns to be on their own, and bucks become more aggresive when its time to find a mate, which is why they fight.

[YamiPoyo]

What does rut mean?

[MrDodge4life]

large antlers come from iowa same with big bucks

[rickle5719]

Needs to be culled from the gene pool. Shitty rack, Wonder if that one little buck liked it?

[mrsupportourtroops]

Great footage and great info except for one thing the largest antlered deer may come from ohio but where do the heaviest deer come from??? Because u cant eat the horns lol but great footage!!

[Rockholm66]

Great footage. Thanks.

[threesillykittens]

Very good shots!! You did a very good job of capturing them! Imagine all that goes on in the woods. !!

[trentsnpr]

HawgLife!