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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...
- Dr. James C. Kroll
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Dec 29, 2023 · Rut Rundown: The Whitetail, Muley, Elk, and Moose Breeding Seasons Explained. For members of the deer family—and for hunters alike—the annual rut is the most exciting time of the year
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 ...
- Clint Mccoy, DVM
Oct 18, 2022 · Learn. Tips for Hunting the Five Phases of the Deer Rut. October 18, 2022. Increase your odds of tagging a mature buck with these tactics for each phase of the rut. It’s finally here, like Christmas for adults, but it arrives a month early and lasts for longer than a single day. It’s the rut.
Ecology of the Rut Though arguably one of the most discussed deer hunting topics, the breeding season, or "rut", is probably the least understood by most deer hunters. The timing of the rut is controlled by the presence of females willing and able to breed.
Established. 2013. Official site. The Rut. The Rut is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2013. It runs every year in Big Sky, Montana ( United States) in September and consists of four races, a 50 K, a 25 K, a 11 K (from 2015, before was 12 K) and Vertical Kilometer both valid for the Skyrunner World Series. [1]
