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What you may have been seeing is activity from the second estrous cycle in that area where the initial rut was early Jan……That’s one month later from that time frame…..That doesn’t necessarily mean that the Feb extension was warranted in that area if it was indeed the second cycle. It would be like south Alabama hunting through the end of Feb…….

What really dictates the question of “Is it warranted?” for many of these north Alabama counties…….is the question…..”Can the area handle the extra buck harvesting from hunting that many post rut days??”……For most areas I’m gonna say that answer is probably no…..or at least they would be better off long term to shut gun hunting down either Jan 15 or Jan 31 depending on the rut timing....maybe a little more accurate dividing up of the zones up there… …….Those dates I posted in the other thread did have some thought put behind them.