Timing
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- Timing · RutGPS bucks on rut excursions were back in 6 to 40 hoursOn a Maryland farm, 20 of 32 collared adult bucks left their range for a mean of 10.5 hours. Mississippi bucks made similar short trips, while a third of them kept a second range they moved to in any month.
- Timing · RutMature pen bucks lost a fifth of their weight with feed always availableAdult bucks in a South Dakota pen study ate far less at peak rut and lost 20 percent of their weight by mid-December with feed always there. Our rule is to hunt the best food left.
- Timing · RutPlatte bucks cast from December into April, so plan repeat shed walksFresh casts in central Nebraska averaged 9 to 13 March, yet casting ran from late December to a buck still antlered on 20 April. Colorado and Wyoming close some public land until May.
- Timing · RutTennessee elk bugled most from 23 September to 10 OctoberSeven recorders on one Tennessee WMA in 2021 caught the most bugles from 7 to 9 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Oregon and Montana collar studies found hunters push elk away from open roads.
- Timing · RutBuck Testosterone: Why His Routine Changes During the RutResearch on buck testosterone, local rut timing, age, feeding, and the difference between searching and breeding.
- Timing · RutHow Fewer Receptive Does Shape the Second RutHow fewer receptive does can concentrate second-rut activity and how to hunt current food sources, covered approaches and fresh breeding behavior.
- Timing · RutWhy Day Length, Not Weather, Sets the Whitetail RutShorter days trigger a series of hormone changes that puts does in heat. Experiments, wildlife agency biologists and dates calculated from fetuses support that explanation. Cold fronts affect the activity hunters notice without shifting the timing of conception.200 daysaverage gestation used to date breeding backward from fawns
- Timing · RutWhitetail Breeding Dates by Latitude and StateFor Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Illinois, breeding-date measurements cluster during early to mid-November. Across Florida, Mississippi and Texas, dates extend from August to February. Begin with the closest measured herd.13 Novemberpooled median for adult does in Pennsylvania, 1999 to 2006
- Timing · RutMoon Phase and the Rut: What Conception Dates ShowFetal data from Pennsylvania, Mississippi and New Brunswick show stable breeding dates as full moons shift by weeks. Collar research in Oklahoma and Mississippi found no lunar effect worth using to plan hunts.3,507pregnant Pennsylvania does examined for conception dates, 1999 to 2006
- Timing · RutThe Rut Moves South: What Ohio's Weekly Data Says About TimingOhio's weekly county tallies show a modest, steady latitude difference: archery harvest centers roughly one to three days ahead near Lake Erie compared with the Ohio River.1.4 to 2.9 daysearlier archery peak in Ohio's Lake Erie counties than along the Ohio River
- Timing · RutStanding Corn and the Rut: How Harvest Timing Rewires MovementWhy deer stay in standing corn, how a newly cut field can change things in days, harvest timing from September through November or later, and how a county assessment gives you more than scouting from the road.40 acresof standing corn can hold a deer's food, bed and cover