Originally Posted By: booth2
Originally Posted By: 2Dogs
Originally Posted By: booth2
So with the week of Christmas being what looked like to me, the following/pushing does phase, and then the week of New Years being the all out chase mode...When do you guys expect to see the 2nd or late rut? Do you think its about 2 weeks after the pushing phase or 2 weeks after the chasing phase?

Last 7-10 days of season. Don't know what phase that's after. wink


Thanks man. i always here people say the second is 2 weeks after the first. But you dont really know when to really start counting 2 weeks because all of us have a certain point when we think the rut is. Some think its when they are following and some think its when they are chasing. Really none of that is the actual breeding. Thats really the "hunters rut". I think the actual breeding takes place after the chase and when deer sightings go down.


Don't know about 2 week periods. The areas I've hunted in Jackson are about Dec 27-Jan 5 is prime time. Then 28 days later for 2nd breeding. Our fawns start hitting the ground around 3 rd week of July. count back 200 days and that puts it right around Jan.1.


"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.