Rut report

tree_ghost

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I'll have to go through all my videos and do a detailed analysis, but I would guess or bumper acorn crop rut this year was at least a week earlier than our poor acorn rut last year. This is fairly normal in a hardwood environment.
I'd say my places it peaked a week or so earlier this year with the most intense "October pre-rut" action ive ever seen. Scrapes blew wide open second week of October around the 13-15th. I had multiple mature bucks working them in daylight over a variety of properties. Rut blew wide open Nov 5-12, seemed to hit lockdown until about the 17th, then took a dramatic slow down by thanksgiving. Just my redneck biology and trail cam intel
 

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I'd say my places it peaked a week or so earlier this year with the most intense "October pre-rut" action ive ever seen. Scrapes blew wide open second week of October around the 13-15th. I had multiple mature bucks working them in daylight over a variety of properties. Rut blew wide open Nov 5-12, seemed to hit lockdown until about the 17th, then took a dramatic slow down by thanksgiving. Just my redneck biology and trail cam intel
This mirrors what I saw. Earliest prerut activity I can ever remember. Cameras caught a lot of chasing starting Oct. 22nd
 

Bone Collector

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I'll have to go through all my videos and do a detailed analysis, but I would guess or bumper acorn crop rut this year was at least a week earlier than our poor acorn rut last year. This is fairly normal in a hardwood environment.
I'd say this was the case for me too, but we had a poor acorn crop on my small tract. However that doesn't mean the surrounding places did. I saw chasing from Mid October through the Juvi hunt. It cooled off and then picked up the second week of ML, but it was short lived and picked up again the opening week of gun.

normally they don't start pestering until the Juvi hunt or early Nov. and the best daytime sightings for big bucks is from the second weekend in ML - Thanksgiving. That was kinda the case with the daytime movement, but the whole rut felt off this year.
 

Bone Collector

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This mirrors what I saw. Earliest prerut activity I can ever remember. Cameras caught a lot of chasing starting Oct. 22nd
In this picture this buck was locked in on this doe. There were other pics. The doe comes in and then he is right behind her. This is the only daytime pic I got of him.
 

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