I was out last night and 5 whitetail bucks hung out in front of my blind for half an hour. They’re still friendly with each other! Each year we hear “they’re rutting...they’re not rutting”. The rut is a long drawn out process, I haven’t seen many rubs yet but one morning they’ll magically appear..then the bucks will begin cruising a bit more.
From now until the end of October is an interesting time, the old mature bucks will get rutty first and they make mistakes. The middle of November they’ll be going nuts but don’t ignore the weeks between now and then. The last two weeks of October have historically been the best for me, partially because I’m not freezing my nards off so I get out more than in November.
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