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This publication and all aspects of the Statewide White-tailed Deer Research and Management Project are made financially possible through hunters’ participation in antlerless deer tag programs.Īcknowledgment is due to Gerald Moore, South Carolina’s first Deer Project supervisor who managed the Antler Records Program between 19, and to Derrell Shipes, who directed the program between 19, a period during which intense editing and review of these records was conducted. Thank you to South Carolina deer hunters.
New record deer 2017 pdf#
If you would like to receive email alerts of new blog posts, subscribe here.The 2019 Deer Record Information is also available for download in the PDF format. It’s why we get pictures of bucks that look like this... Susquehannock State Forest We expect bucks on our study areas to have about a 1 in 10 chance of surviving to 10 years old. In fact, we are currently following a number of bucks that are at least 4 years old. The probability of a buck that survives the hunting season as a fawn and subadult will make it to his 7 th hunting season is 1 in 3. What’s the bottom line? There are some really nice bucks on our study areas. Slightly fewer harvests for subadults, as expected, but statistically the difference is not significant. Over the past 4 years we recorded 6 direct recoveries* of 60 subadults available for harvest, and 9 of 57 adults available for harvest. Seeing no difference between these age classes is not unexpected given the overall low harvest rates. With antler point restrictions, subadult harvest rates are always lower than adult harvest rates because about half of them are protected and not legal for harvest. A new record low!Īlso, we couldn’t detect a difference in harvest rates between 1.5-year-old males and males that were >2.5-years-old. Comparing these to all our other studies here’s where they rank. That’s right, about 1 in 10 were harvested each year.
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So if the monthly survival rate is 99.46%, the January-September survival rate is 95.2% (multiply 0.9946 by itself 9 times). And we’re pretty confident in our estimate because the standard error (a measure of precision) was only 0.16%. Over the past 4 years, the probability of an adult deer (male or female!) surviving each month (January through September) was 99.46%. It turns out monthly survival is very high and consistent. When we capture a deer in January, what’s the probability it will be available to be harvested by a hunter when hunting season arrives? Basically our sample of radio-collared deer tells us how many deer survive between tagging and recovery (the survival rate outside the hunting season). So complicated that a Franny Buderman received a master’s degree by developing the estimation method to do this. The solution to these problems is rather complicated. How do we account for deer that might die beforehand? Deer captured in January-April may not survive to the hunting season.We never really know their fates of ear tagged only deer (except when harvested and hunters call to claim the reward) – occasionally we recover road-killed deer but if they die back in the woods we may never know what happened to them.Our blog readers are pretty sharp, so I know you are wondering how we know what happens to those ear tagged deer if we can’t follow them.
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To estimate harvest rates we use data from both our radio-collared deer and deer that are fitted with reward ear tags. Jackson would ask, what have you done for me lately? Ok, so let’s talk about the latest study, The Deer-Forest Study, and buck harvest and survival rates.
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We’ve talked about harvest and survival rates over the past 17 years. This winter has been different – more mud and rain than snow and ice.