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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 ...
Aug 20, 2013 · 1) Hunt between does. If you know where two or more groups of does hang out, look for logical funnels or corridors between them. Bucks use corridors to cover their movements as they travel from group to group. 2) Hunt all day. You are just as likely to see a buck at noon as at the crack of dawn when they are searching for hot does.
- 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...
- Dr. James C. Kroll
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Dec 29, 2023 · But if you’re a deer, elk, or moose, rutting is the highlight of your year. Rutting is the term ascribed to the breeding season for the deer species. Unlike human beings, who can produce young ...
Sep 20, 2023 · The Whitetail Rut Map is one of the features available in the Pro Whitetail upgrade. This ground-breaking map, and feature-packed upgrade, is ready to benefit deer hunters nationwide. The ground-breaking HuntStand Whitetail Rut Map details the peak breeding period (Rut) for white-tailed deer throughout the United States.
Oct 30, 2023 · The answer is simple. Whitetail deer are known as short-day breeders, meaning day length plays a role in the hormonal balances that drive the rut. This causes an increase in observed movement and allows hunters afield during the peak of breeding season to harvest more deer. This leads to more deer being harvested for population control, more ...
Jul 26, 2022 · July 26, 2022 By Rob Nye. Pennsylvania resident Steve Minder is addicted to hunting whitetails in Saskatchewan, Canada. On his ninth consecutive trip to the province with Rockridge Outfitting, we caught a bruiser buck making a rare mistake. It dawdled too long in an open grain field and was more concerned with the hot doe it was following than ...
