They did a similar study in Maryland (of all places) several years back. They collared bucks of all ages groups from a large hunting club to see what the patterns of those bucks would be by age group on bucks before, during, and after the hunting season. The results were very interesting. I read an article on this study (I think it was about 10 years ago)but I don't remember who published the study. The thing that stuck out the most is that bucks moved more during the day than previously thought, however the mature bucks rarely (only twice if I remember correctly) came within shooting range of an established club stand during daylight hours . However, these same bucks would visit those club stands nightly, almost as if they were checking to see if anyone had been there. Which explains why they would avoid those areas during the day.

I have since tried to find the results of that Maryland study online but haven't been able to find it. I have found a bunch of other deer/buck movement studies, but couldn't locate that particular one. I liked how they had all of the GPS coordinated of established club stands and tracked buck movement in relation to those. I haven't seen any other studies that looked at that data, just overall movement in general of bucks throughout the different times of year.