The land I hunt is way to large to even take a guess. And with buck displacement it doesn't really matter IMHO.
I have deer every year that just "show up" I run numerous cameras and as stated before, come September there they are!
That's US too. We have a few bucks stay around But once the does start coming in you never know what will walk out. Deer have a lot bigger range than a lot of folks think.
Every deer we kill will be within 1000 yds of where we get pics of them all summer. They do not leave our place for whatever reason, they also do not just show up. But we run lots of cameras so we don't miss hardly any bucks. I really think we get pictures of 100% of the bucks on our 1200 acres. Every one we have killed in the past 5 years is one we have pics of before season and from previous years.
How many cameras do you guys run on what size average that say the bucks just show up
Depends on the lay on the land. If your surrounded by a large area of agriculture or pasture land then yes your deer might stay on your property to some extent but don't think your property is the only property they wonder around on.
Between me and my group we run about 50 cameras 24/7.
More than likely the ones that show up were push out of their home by a someone. Here in Lowndes county a 5.5 year old buck is a ghost until the rut. If you cross his trail he cages paths, get to close to his safety zone he changes habits. Our 3.5 year old and younger bucks do stay within a mile or so of where we record them but our older deer may go a full year without being seen and once the rut comes in they might get shot over a mile from the acorns he fed on in fall. We have killed deer with green soybeans in their stomach and the nearest soybean field is 3 miles away!! If I didn't see it with my own eyes I wouldn't believe it. But deer wonder and will walk miles for high quality food. Most people that don't hunt large tracts of land don't realize that most young bucks don't even have a home range, they are nomadic until they find a place to fit in. This is why culling a herd is a deer managers worst nightmare.
