Rut is over here

[roundball]

Seeing does regularly again, reunited with their yearlings, traveling together like always...saw 4 different sets right at dark last night and they all had one or two this years fawns with them so I couldn't shoot...sat there until it was too dark to see, hoping an old lone doe would show up but none did.

So it looks like the main rut is history here in my area...I figure a late doe might come in esturus around 15-18 of December so there could be a very brief flurry of buck movement then...but as far as the main November rut goes, looks like it's history where I hunt.

 

[Stumpkiller]

The only way I get to hunt the rut is with a bow. By the third week of November when regular season starts it's over up here.

Our hunters act stupid, not the bucks. :rotf:

 

[KyFlintlock]

It is almost done here too...I did see a decent 7pt with a doe today....so there are still a few straglers...

Good luck.

 

[roundball]

The only way I get to hunt the rut is with a bow. By the third week of November when regular season starts it's over up here.

Our hunters act stupid, not the bucks. :rotf:

We're really very lucky here in North Carolina...to have such a large herd, to have such long seasons, and for them to open as early as they do.

 

[roundball]

It is almost done here too...I did see a decent 7pt with a doe today....so there are still a few straglers...

Good luck.

Funny you should say that...I sat another stand late this afternoon and surprisingly early, an hour before too-dark-to-see, I heard deer coming through the leaves, then stop, then turn walking away faster than they had been walking in...(I was 15 feet up and had the breeze)...so I turned to look and saw a large bodied deer disappearing into a thicket with a slightly smaller deer right in front of it...I didn't see the head but am convinced it was a buck with a doe...she's probably already been bred and he was just beggin'...or maybe she was a late doe...and she was just twisting and turning around back and forth like they do to keep away from him.
Saw a doe right at black dark but it was too dark in the woods to shoot so I climbed down and packed it in.

 

[Halftail]

2Nights ago I saw a decent 6 or 8 point cross the road with a Doe just in front of me an hour or so after dark.I was thinking that last week the rut was in full swing up here.No more hunting for me this year, Monday I take to the Atlantic Ocean in search of The Homardus Americanus for 6 months. :v

 

[roundball]

2Nights ago I saw a decent 6 or 8 point cross the road with a Doe just in front of me an hour or so after dark.I was thinking that last week the rut was in full swing up here.No more hunting for me this year, Monday I take to the Atlantic Ocean in search of The Homardus Americanus for 6 months. :v

That's a long time chasing lobsters...what's the average round trip duration...2 weeks? a month?

 

[Halftail]

That's a long time chasing lobsters...what's the average round trip duration...2 weeks? a month?

Roundball,
I fish the inshore and we only go out for the day.For the next month or so my day will start at 2am and end at 10pm.It's a great job and has been quite Lucrative for the last 25 years or so.