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Nov 2, 2020 · The whitetail deer breeding season can be wildly unpredictable—or as regular as reading the calendar. Here’s what we can and cannot predict about the 2020 whitetail rut. The timing of peak breeding is one aspect of the whitetail rut that we can predict well ahead of time and holds true year in and year out. Study after study have shown that ...
- Rut Timing Realities
- Favorite Days
- Chasing Versus Lockdown
- Conclusion
Well, let’s start with some truth. The rut happens the same time every year because it has to - especially throughout much of the range where whitetails live and actual seasons (like winter) happen. Fawns need to hit the ground at the right time in the late-spring, otherwise they don’t do so well. Mother Nature knows this, and so forget about an ea...
Pretty much any day in the first three weeks of November is a good day to be in the woods. But if I had to personally choose a window to spend dark-to-dark sits on a pinch point, it would be from November 7th to the 12th. After more than 25 years of whitetail hunting, I can safely say the 7th is my favorite day of the month to hunt. I’ve had more w...
Everyone knows that early-November is a chase-fest and late-November is a snooze-fest due to the lock-down. But the reality is the lock-down is somewhat of a myth. Sure, a mature buck who finds the right lady is going to stick with her until she throws her chastity belt back on, but that time period has been found to be at most two days. And that’s...
Here’s the thing - if it’s November and you have time - go hunting. 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 s...
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Mar 25, 2024 · Typically, the normal filing deadline to claim old refunds falls around the April tax deadline, which is April 15 this year for 2023 tax returns. But the three-year window for 2020 unfiled returns was postponed to May 17, 2024, due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency.
Oct 18, 2022 · Head to deer camp on Friday the first and get ready to sit in a tree for ten hours a day for the next nine days. Bucks will be running rampant. The first does are starting to come into estrus. Be sure to get in early—well before shooting time—and sit all day if you can.
Apr 5, 2022 · Ideally, the shorter the time involved in actual breeding/conception, the better for the species. Average gestation from our data, covering almost 50 years, is 198 days. So, a doe conceiving on Nov. 15, 2021, will fawn around June 1, 2022. The tighter the fawning period, the less impact of predators, so we try to manage deer herds to have a ...
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Nov 14, 2022 · The rut is the special time of year that whitetail hunters live for. But it's also just that, a time of the year. It doesn’t last long—a month or so is about the best you can hope for. Maximizing your time during that magical period is critical. That said, life has a way of getting in the way, and most of us have to choose our shots.
Oct 23, 2018 · On a broad scale, the rut will occur this year the same time it did last year and the twenty years prior. The weather won’t affect that, and neither will the moon phase. Locally, however, you could see some variation. Don’t assume what you’re seeing applies to others in your area or vice versa.
