Usually when the does and bucks come up missing from your corn pile or food plot is when they hunkered down getting it done. Usually that will last a week or 2 and when they start showing back up they will start herding back up and it's over and done with.
Funny thing is I was at the processor dropping off my paw n laws deer and somebody had killed a big old doe and they were gutting her and she done had twin embryos in here. I asked where she was killed and they didn't know. But I'm fairly certain she came out of east central Alabama.
I’d always thought the actual breeding happened when the woods went quiet. Bucks had does locked down. The chasing was before and after for the most part. Not an actual day but a week of light
Movement and an occasional mature buck(s) pursuing a doe. Groups of button bucks out and about Ali’s and indicator.
Just kinda curious what most hunters think to be compared to the actuality of breeding.