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Nov 16, 2023 · Ultimately, choosing to target a specific buck or embracing the rut's free-for-all is a personal decision. It depends on your hunting goals and preferences. Some hunters find great satisfaction in pursuing a specific deer, while others thrive on the unpredictability and variety the rut offers. The whitetail rut is a dynamic and thrilling time ...
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- Myth #1: The Peak Rut Is The Best Time to Take A Buck.
- Myth #2: Rutting Bucks Are Impossible to Pattern.
- Myth #3: When The Action Is Over, The Rut Is over.
- Myth #4: You Might as Well Stay Home During The Post-Rut.
- Myth #5: The Primary Rut Lasts About A month.
It’s easy to have a Pavlovian response to the words “peak rut.” We can’t help it. Decades of magazine articles and deer-camp conversations have created a conditioned reaction that makes us take our vacations during the height of the whitetail breeding season. Instead, we should be taking off a little earlier. Bucks are actually most mobile and vuln...
Deer hunters rarely complain about the rut, but when they do, this is usually their gripe. It happens because once does begin coming into estrus, bucks do indeed leave their home areas, abandon their rub lines and scrapes, and begin traipsing over the countryside in search of ready mates. But bucks don’t wander haphazardly. Rather, they move quite ...
Just about every serious whitetail hunter has spent days watching deerless woods in mid-November and thought, The rut must be over. More likely, it is at its apex. Today’s expert hunters refer to this peak-rut lull as the “lockdown,” and it’s one of the most difficult times to fill your tag. When a buck senses that a doe is coming into estrus, he c...
Not if you want to tag a trophy. Although it’s almost certain that you’ll see fewer bucks immediately after peak breeding than you would during the seeking-and-chasing phase, research on Texas’ King Ranch by noted whitetail biologist Mickey Hellickson revealed an excellent reason to keep hunting—and to bring a set of rattling horns with you. “We ra...
This is Nature’s plan, as whitetail does have a roughly 28-day estrous cycle. But when doe numbers get out of control, which is a problem in many areas, the rut can last far longer than that. Biologist Grant Woods studied a property in New York’s Adirondacks where hunters had harvested almost no does for years. “The rut there lasted nearly four mon...
Oct 20, 2023 · 80. Delaware County. Oct 23, 2023. #6. I saw zero signs of the rut in 2D in Pennsylvania last weekend. In Delaware County this past weekend, I saw some small bucks wandering, one was tagging along with a doe and her 3 yearlings. I'm not sure I'd describe what I saw as rutting activity but I could be wrong.
Oct 25, 2021 · Ross County, Ohio. Oct 26, 2021. #10. Plenty of deer action went on this evening in Ross Co. Taken while heading out to my stand this evening @4:30 p.m. After the rain quit, I encountered multiple does pissing in fresh scrapes, 25 yards away, a pair of bucks clashing multiple times in front of me, one of the more mature bucks freshening up a ...
Apr 5, 2022 · Moon phases, as I noted above, are not static within any month from year to year. For example, the full Hunter’s Moon and Beaver Moon in 2021 were on Oct. 20 and Nov. 19, respectively. These same full moons occurred in 2019 on Oct. 13 and Nov. 12; and, in 2017 they were on Oct. 5 and Nov. 4. Demographics impact when whitetails breed.
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Nov 7, 2023 · Use your high-beam headlights when there is no oncoming traffic to make spotting deer along the edge of the road easier. The brighter light reflects off their eyes, making them more visible in the ...
