My experience in the 4 short years I’ve lived here……my sightings, shot opportunities, and kills on the same bucks I “hope” to see during the rut, are way higher during the first 5 days of bow season. Bucks are unpressured, generally daylight moving on food, and probably have been patterned on your cameras for weeks if not months. Get a slight cool down on those first 5 days and for me it’s far better than the rut, like it was this year. Grab a bow, thermacell and enjoy.
100 percent accurate. I pray one day the DNR would get their heads out of their rears and Open bow season the last week of September state wide before row crop is removed. Where I hunt, the genetics are so mixed up it’s a trickle rut from second week of December till the end of January. Only if you happen to be there when that one hot doe is in the area will you get a chance.
