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Forget the weather, forget the moon phase, forget whether Mercury is in retrograde or whatever. The rut is going on now, and there isn’t a bad day to be in the woods. Hunt where the bucks are most likely to travel and put in the hours necessary to encounter one. That’s really the secret to rut hunting success.
Oct 6, 2023 · Peak Rut — Tuesday, Nov. 7 & Sunday, Nov. 12. Survey 100 hunters in the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Regions, and it’s a safe bet that more than 90 percent of them would say the first week of November is the best week to be in the whitetail woods all year long. Well, this year the DataSport Forecaster is predicting only average ...
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Mar 19, 2024 · During the late season, when deer are moving during warmer periods, Woods will hunt during a 10 percent increase in temperature. That means a small bump, like from 30 to 33 degrees. When the rut is increasing in intensity, like it is right now, typical and stable weather makes for great hunting days, too, Woods says.
Nov 10, 2023 · Evidently, according to researchers, different strains of whitetails create their own unique rut dates and timing specific to that region. For instance, Michigan deer have been taken down south and shown to keep their northern rut timing. Various Rut timing systems have evolved, giving hunters the opportunity to drill down to a two- or three ...
Sep 6, 2023 · Published: September 6, 2023. Doe groups can be great to hunt near during the rut as bucks search for another estrus doe. The rut is the main event of whitetail season. Every year, deer hunters are dying to know the best rut times to spend in the woods. The whitetail rut offers a window to take advantage of a weakness in a buck’s security system.
Oct 26, 2023 · The whitetail rut is getting into gear, and with it comes the best chance of the season for a buck of a lifetime for deer hunters. This is Week 2 of the 2023 Game & Fish Regional Rut Update, a series of seven exclusive weekly rut reports from the field by whitetail contributors Doug Howlett (East), Darron McDougal (Midwest) and Josh Honeycutt ...
Oct 4, 2022 · Peak Rut: Monday, November 7 — If you’re a bowhunter in the northern two-thirds of the U.S., there’s no other two-week window like the first half of November. The weather is turning colder, the autumn scenery is gorgeous in many locales and the daytime deer activity usually picks up, weather willing, as the peak of the rut approaches.
