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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 ...
Dec 29, 2023 · But if you’re a deer, elk, or moose, rutting is the highlight of your year. Rutting is the term ascribed to the breeding season for the deer species. Unlike human beings, who can produce young ...
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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
International Roughness Index and rut data. This dataset contains pavement roughness and rut depth measured on provincial highways, summarized in 50 metre segments within the lane that the measure was taken.
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
Jul 26, 2022 · Post-rut hunting in early December is often preferred by experienced northern hunters because the bucks commonly feed heavily after the rut winds down. The downside of hunting late in the season is that the rut in Saskatchewan can be very competitive and deer that often push 300 pounds can have some vicious battles that often result in broken ...
mid 1500s. The earliest known use of the noun rut is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for rut is from 1552, in the writing of Richard Huloet, lexicographer. It is also recorded as a verb from the mid 1500s. Probably either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or perhaps (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item.
