Some very good tips on how to get through a rut, we have all been there before! As for me this is the best way to hunt. Your email address will not be published. Subscribe me to your mailing list.
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Hunting The Post Rut You knew this was coming…the week you dreaded. Deer Calls For The Rut. Late Season Deer Hunting. Hunting Tactics for the Pre-Rut and Rut. Understanding and Hunting The Second Rut. Good luck out there. I am fascinated with the insight here in this post. Thank you for sharing. Leave a Reply Want to join the discussion? Feel free to contribute! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. This website uses cookies to improve your experience.
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These generally take place between bucks of similar hierarchal status. These trees show wear from rubbing. Rubs are made as part of deer rutting behavior. Two other behaviors associated with the rut are "rubbing" and "making scrapes. A rub is initially made by a buck rubbing his antlers and forehead for scent deposition on a shrub or small tree.
Once created, a rub may be used by several bucks or does. Generally, bucks begin "making scrapes" several weeks after the first rubs appear. This activity increases as the breeding season peaks and then declines throughout the remainder of the rutting period. Bucks love to travel a green edge in the woods. A great bonus now is that most of the rut hunters who crowded the woods in November are long gone.
A few of them got their bucks; others have lost interest or had to go back to work. In early December, bucks are tired and battered but still running on a last jolt of testosterone. Sometimes a buck makes fresh rubs, so look for them. Go back and hunt a stand that you hung in a sign-blazed funnel in early November, you might catch a buck cruising there now.
One cold, still morning in early December, we hiked down into a canyon near the Cimarron River in western Oklahoma and set up on a rocky outcropping. I peeked at the deer, an old fellow with a bull chest, thin hips, and a gray face.
The buck stepped out of the misty river and disappeared into thick brush. He popped out yards away, and I was fixing to try a poke…. I peeked over at Kenny, who worked his horns and grunter with a gleam in his eye. The buck turned our way and marched in, back hair bristling and face a white halo in the morning sun. My grain bullet drove him into the sandbar, and he never moved again. Top whitetail scientist Mickey Hellickson conducted an intensive three-year study in Texas on the movements and behaviors of mature bucks.
Part of that research project produced groundbreaking research on antler rattling. This was the phase when the researchers rattled up the most mature bucks. Here are a few things to keep in mind:. One December day in Kansas, B. He saw some young bucks and does, but nothing he wanted to shoot.
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Are you ready to get off the couch and back outside enjoying nature? Before you do, Mossy Oak wants you to know how to identify poison ivy. For deer hunters, the month of November is what we have spent the entire year waiting for.
The month of November is primarily the time in most regions that the whitetail deer have their breeding season or what is more commonly known as the rut. Deer , How-To. The Decline of Mule Deer Populations. Mule deer habitats are vast, ranging from above timberline in the Rocky Mountains to the sage plains of the Sonoran Desert. In the U. Deer , Conservation. Fooling Decoy-Shy Ducks. How to bring even the most gun-shy ducks into gun range this season.
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