Originally Posted by 2Dogs
Originally Posted by jb20
A lot of hunters don't see action and think rut hasn't hit yet when a lot of times it's happening or passed already...

In the mid 90s there was one season we had a long stretch of very unseasonably warm , humid weather right at prime breeding period in Ol' Hi-Jackson. It was in the 60's and low 70s day after day. Nobody was killing any or even seeing any bucks or does either. It was terrible . I heard many a hunter say " they didn't rut this season". Well third week of July the next summer fawns hit the ground just like always.
I'll add when that when a cold front swept through and the weather changed it was wide open and bucks were getting killed like I've never seen before or since in a about three day period. It was like someone opened a giant pen and let them out. I killed a dandy 8 point the morning the front moved through , that afternoon it snowed!

In all my years hunting I've only killed one dogging a doe. But my 4 best bucks from here have been within 5 days of each jan 15-20..i always make a bunch of phone calls during that time just to double check with other hunters and it's pretty steady year after year from my end

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