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Joined: Nov 2018
Posts: 15
spike
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Joined: Nov 2018
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Was getting pics of deer in the mornings and afternoons. A bunch of pics all night, every night. When the rut started, I'm getting very few pics of does and no bucks! I can understand the bucks are chasing, but what happened to all the does? They have just about stopped coming to my feeders at all.
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Joined: Dec 2007
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14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2007
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From my experience, does get tired of getting harassed at feeding sites during rut and tend to hide out in thicker cover more.
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 14,339 Likes: 65
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2002
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Everything woke turns to shucks
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 9,461
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jun 2010
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Same experience with me, about this time does seem to quit going to the greenfield as much. Many hitting the leftover oaks?
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Joined: Sep 2023
Posts: 984 Likes: 52
6 point
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6 point
Joined: Sep 2023
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For the past few days my pic volume is way down in N Perry Co, even with the weather change. I have a does slipping into feeders earlier and less frequently. Buck pics on trails and plots are all moving. You’re not alone.
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 29,100 Likes: 86
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
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I know during the peak of the rut the doe groups get pretty busted up because you have lots of individual does getting harassed or off in a thicket somewhere with a buck……I was tracking a buck a few weeks ago through a duck swamp in an area where the rut was occurring and as we were wading along the hunter said….”Hey there’s a deer laying on it’s belly right there in them palmettos 30 yards from us!”…..It wasn’t our buck though…..We’re pretty sure it was the doe the buck they shot was dogging earlier that morning and she was out in the swamp on a high spot trying to hide…..She let us walk right by her
Folks that know don't shoot old does........ 
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Joined: Dec 2012
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Dec 2012
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I think it happens to everyone's deer. I know it happens to us most years
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Joined: Feb 2016
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Fancy
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Fancy
Joined: Feb 2016
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That’s totally normal. They do it every year.
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10 point
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10 point
Joined: Apr 2010
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Been doing the same for me. Some nights I have 3-4 does, other nights 10-12. Mostly night
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
Joined: Dec 2015
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That’s totally normal. They do it every year. If youre expecting to kill a deer because you know what your deer were doing two weeks ago, that plan wont work. You better know what they did on this week last year. Thats free advice there
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Joined: Mar 2015
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12 point
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12 point
Joined: Mar 2015
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Need to get away from feed sites and hunt in the thick cover. Hunt the feed sites post rut when the bucks are trying to get a boost of energy to find the last available does. Right now my places have done the same thing. You get out in the woods and see deer all day cruising or chasing and won’t see hardly nothing around the feed troughs.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jul 2011
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That’s totally normal. They do it every year. If youre expecting to kill a deer because you know what your deer were doing two weeks ago, that plan wont work. You better know what they did on this week last year. Thats free advice there And good advice it is. You have to hunt ahead of them , not behind them.
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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12 point
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12 point
Joined: Feb 2011
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Hunt the feed sites post rut
That’s called turkey season around here.
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Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,112 Likes: 52
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,112 Likes: 52 |
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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3 point
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 151 Likes: 1 |
Does anyone have an idea when south Chilton county rut typically is. Im just south of Maplesville near Plantersville. Still have bucks hitting feeders. Been hunting sporadically for several years in January and have never really seen any bucks chasing/cruising looking for does.
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10 point
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10 point
Joined: Aug 2016
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I use to hunt in Maplesville and the middle of Janary was always good
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 16,909 Likes: 41
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 16,909 Likes: 41 |
Does anyone have an idea when south Chilton county rut typically is. Im just south of Maplesville near Plantersville. Still have bucks hitting feeders. Been hunting sporadically for several years in January and have never really seen any bucks chasing/cruising looking for does. I've got some land in billingsley and it seems like mid January until the end of the season is prime
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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