Slow Hunt-Rut OVer

[DGHUNT10]

3 minutes ago, Livesintrees said:

In my area. The rut is nearly non existent during daylight with the temps. Once 7pm hits you can stand outside and hear the insanity in the woods. Cold temps hitting the next day or so will have it explode again. It certainly isn’t over. Just not what we “expect” to see on a large scale. Some of the best hunts I can remember took place from the week of thanksgiving through the week of six day. As a new hunter my advice to you is just go out and hunt. Way to much garbage information on the internet to sift through to find the good stuff. And if you think success will be instant or guaranteed, this sport isn’t for you. 

This is really helpful and appreciate the help.

[Pathman]

25 minutes ago, DGHUNT10 said:

I agree with that idea just with video i posted shows them active at 10am when its 70 outside

One thing you’ll learn also, is to not take a very small sample snapshot of activity and determine overall activity from that. 
There will always be exceptions to the general rules, once you learn to decipher  what you’re seeing, and how it applies to general activity, you’ll become more efficient with your approach. 
It will take many hours, days, weeks of field experience in order to put it all together, or, you may go out one time and luck into one, enjoy!

[Michael Britt]

I always found river bottoms (aka riparian corridors aka floodplain forest) to have the most activity. I always seem to see more there than the guys "up top."

[_X7]

Warm weather is a rut killer for daytime activity. Not to say there won't be any, but the odds are you will do better in colder temps. Cold fronts are hunter's friend and a bit of rain doesn't hurt.

[DoubleLungDevil]

All of my biggest bucks and all the ones on my wall were killed from November 15 to thanksgiving so hang in there it is NOT over.

[vdep217]

39 minutes ago, DoubleLungDevil said:

All of my biggest bucks and all the ones on my wall were killed from November 15 to thanksgiving so hang in there it is NOT over.

Seems the areas I hunt Nov 8 through 15 are the days.  4 of my last 5 came in that time last year and thus year on the 10th

[Ron]

The rut for me is the most frustrating time to hunt. Really no rhyme or reason as to when and where. I like patterns. After looking through pictures most of my archery “rut” bucks were shot between November 11 to Thanksgiving. In 2019 I shot a buck on Dec 31st that was grunting and running a group of does like one was in the heat. 

[vdep217]

32 minutes ago, Ron said:

The rut for me is the most frustrating time to hunt. Really no rhyme or reason as to when and where. I like patterns. After looking through pictures most of my archery “rut” bucks were shot between November 11 to Thanksgiving. In 2019 I shot a buck on Dec 31st that was grunting and running a group of does like one was in the heat. 

Hunt the does.  When u get several bucks on cam in a short time hunt

[Mountain Goat]

Yup to all the advice. Today I had more action than my entire rutcation two weeks ago. Just takes one hot doe.  Cannot predict mother nature and i prefer it that way.  Bucks are still rutting ,  cruising and breeding.  This coming week should be good with temps going deep south. Boots in stand will pay out sooner or latter.

[Hunter115522]

I saw 3 dead bucks, all rackers, on the parkway today from exit 100 to 90. I think the chasing is still in full swing. 

[hammer4reel]

7 hours ago, Pathman said:

It’s all weather related, cold weather, daylight activity, warm weather, night time activity. 
 

They are going to chase and lockdown a doe whether it’s 70 or 20.

 

when the doe is ready so will he be.

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[Gobblengrunt]

Rut is over, everybody stop hunting, time to go home, nothing to see here, lol……

[bushden]

Its not over yet, put the time in and you will see them.

[Stugots]

13 hours ago, hammer4reel said:

They are going to chase and lockdown a doe whether it’s 70 or 20.

 

when the doe is ready so will he be.

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Agreed but the weather does effect the time of day they move. I truly believe when it's warm, they are rutting overnight. The cold temps make them slip up during daylight. 

[megavites]

pulled card from foodplot (cam is glitching) and found buck tending doe 3 days ago.