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Apr 12, 2023 · November and early December are the peak period of deer hunting in Northern Ontario. In fact, more trophy bucks are taken during this time than at any other period of the open season. The reason is simple. The deer rut gets into full gear. This is one of the rare times when wily old bucks make mistakes. The rut can expand well into December ...
- Tracking The Mating Season
- Understanding Rut Timing
- What Else Affects Rut Timing?
- Real World Examples
For years, it has been frustrating to hear so many erroneous perceptions of what constitutes the rut, so let’s begin with a brief primer on what the rut really is! According to Wikipedia: “The rut is the mating season of certain mammals, which includes ruminants such as deer, sheep, camels, goats, pronghorns, bison, giraffes and antelopes, and exte...
Why do whitetails have a rut? The first obvious answer is that they need one to reproduce! A precisely timed breeding season guarantees the production of fawns at a time of the year that will maximize recruitment. In reality, it is more the timing of weaning that affects when deer breed than any other factor. Once weaned, fawns are virtually on the...
The melatonin/sex hormone control of whitetail breeding is one thing, but there are confounding factors that can frustrate this system. These include the physiological condition of the deer coming into fall, moon phase timing and demographics of the herd. Temperatures play a role in affecting whether or not deer move in daylight hours. You may have...
We work and have worked with many landowners over the range of the whitetails. We not only advise these landowners, but also conduct research on their properties. Two of these are perhaps the best managed properties in the U.S., Turtle Lake Club and Grand Rack Club in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Turtle Lake has been man...
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Oct 2, 2015 · Most moose start to rut in the middle of September and often sow their oats through the first week of October. The three-week window when the majority of mature cows are bred is prime time for sitting still and calling. The weeks leading up to the first days of the rut, however, will find most bulls packing away the calories and living in a ...
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Jul 27, 2016 · Make an effort to plan your hunts before approaching cold fronts and winter storms to take advantage of increased daytime feeding activity. When the secondary rut ends, bucks will fall back into a Stage 4 Post-Rut pattern and you can switch over to those tactics and setups to end your season.
mid 1500s. The earliest known use of the noun rut is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for rut is from 1552, in the writing of Richard Huloet, lexicographer. It is also recorded as a verb from the mid 1500s. Probably either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or perhaps (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item.
