Originally Posted by 2Dogs
Originally Posted by Mike_W
They rutted in north and central Marshall county back at the start of the month. The 9 point I shot this past Monday dropped about 30 pounds since the pics I had of him in late December and almost every doe and buck I had pics of in that time period were all brushed/roughed up from rutting. The "second" rut is starting a little, but good deer can be had regardless of "being able to hunt the rut"

Best of luck...sounds like they may already have rutted. Can't see how deer only 30 min away are rutting a full 1-1.5 months later than others, but stranger things have happened


I think you should study up on Alabama rut. Some areas only a few miles there's a difference of two weeks or more in breeding periods.


No they haven't already gone through the rut. So yes they do rut later where I am than where you are. They have rutted no earlier than the last week of January, ever and most years it's the first or 2nd week of February. The earliest I have ever seen a buck chase a doe on our farm was 1/29. It was a spike pushing a doe. I know there's more to the rut than the chasing phase but that's when the big ones are usually active. i have never seen a spotted fawn before August 15th so we could back that up 205 days and see what date that is. If I wasn't posting "live from a creek bottom" on my phone I would check it now

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