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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.
- Drew Myers
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Apr 5, 2022 · 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 short, concise conception curve, which in turn produces a short, concise fawning period.
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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 ...
- Rob Nye
Oct 18, 2022 · Rut definition: The rut is simply the deer breeding season. As daylight shortens throughout the end of summer and into autumn, bucks’ testosterone levels rise, eventually peaking in harmony with the same rise of estrus in does.
Sep 20, 2023 · Published: September 20, 2023. Deer hunters everywhere take note: the HuntStand Whitetail Rut Map details the peak breeding period, also known as the rut, for white-tailed deer throughout the United States. Never before has whitetail breeding data been compiled and mapped to this level.
Jul 27, 2016 · The Pre-Rut. During the early pre-rut stage of the season, big bucks are generally locked to a textbook feeding to bedding pattern. It's not uncommon to find several shooters traveling together in bachelor groups and routinely hitting food sources on a consistent basis.
