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Nov 2, 2020 · 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 the timing of whitetail breeding across most of the country is directly tied to photoperiod—the amount of daylight in a 24 hour window.
Jan 2, 2020 · Hunters can use the WFF Rut Map to determine the likely dates of whitetail breeding activity. January 2, 2020. By DAVID RAINER, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Depending on where they pursue white-tailed deer, hunters in Alabama may be experiencing a wide range of deer breeding activity from pre-rut, and peak rut to ...
- 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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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.
Oct 20, 2022 · Hunters in this part of the country experienced the perfect cold front at about this time in 2020. When I wrote my Rut Report that year, I called it a “godsend for whitetail hunters.” Last year didn’t get that same divine weather forecast, and hunters this year won’t, either.
- Spencer Neuharth
Oct 13, 2015 · Will the rut be early or late this year? Neither, it will be On Time. The 2-3 week period that you actually take to the woods to hunt the rut each year, should really never change.
Current forecast shows mild weather opening morning with a chance of precipitation moving in that evening into Sunday. Heavy rut activity will be winding down in most locations though there will still be ample opportunity to harvest a mature deer. CENTRAL REGION. Reported by Jay Rouk, Wildlife Biologist
