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Switch flipped 36h ago... older bucks back to being active on all my farms in daylight working scrapes, chasing does, and just generally doing stupid things that get them killed.

In years past, 2nd rut has traditionally been Dec 18 thru 24.
 

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Switch flipped in our area 11/28 with a mature buck working a scrape. Then 11/29 mature buck sticking with a doe. Younger bucks also chasing. All in the daylight. Several reports last week of bucks cruising and camera videos of sparring.With muzzloader season being dead for us....and with the last week of October and first week of November having more daytime activity....it seems to be shifted back 10 to 14 days.

Edit to add....looking back at notes...my buddy that hunts our place did see a mature buck on both 26th and 27th...one got by him and the other was to far...but both were mature and on their feet cruising...so by all reports there was a peak last week of October into November....with second peak last week of November into December. (And that comment is from our observations in our area of northern middle).
 
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Wife went this morning, she heard two shots at daylight from property behind us. The man who owns it claims they only kill "wallhangers" and only killed 2 deer off the property in the short time they have owned it. Doubt he'd be honest about what they shot. She saw pretty good chasing up in the edge, and passed on a decent 8 and saw two other bucks.
 
HA I just throw up my hands with this year. We are still showing nothing. I'm still going to bank on new bucks that showed up last year mid December for our traditional timing of the 2nd rut. Hope they show up again. They always do - timing is the problematic theme this year. If we went 30 days from when the magic happened this year, it'd be the last 2 weeks of November. That time has passed. I'll be targeting travel routes to food the last few times I'll get to go
 
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megalomaniac said:
We just killed another 4.5yo 1h ago... noon... in the wide open on a doe 😀
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I shot my second buck Monday morning. He was alone cruising across a huge open field in the wide open. He jumped the fence into the woods with me and made the mistake of stopping 5yds in front of me. I wasn't really wanting to kill anything at all, just monitoring, but he made it too easy. Any time I can kill a mature buck and back the tailgate right to him, im not passing.
 
Ski said:
I shot my second buck Monday morning. He was alone cruising across a huge open field in the wide open. He jumped the fence into the woods with me and made the mistake of stopping 5yds in front of me. I wasn't really wanting to kill anything at all, just monitoring, but he made it too easy. Any time I can kill a mature buck and back the tailgate right to him, im not passing.
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Couple of deer teases 😄let's see em
 
I boiled out skulls for my niece and dad this morning and didn't go. Outside shot that I'll go tomorrow afternoon after church
 
74MOPAR said:
That sounds great
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Yessir! We make a bunch of summer sausage each season and give them out with Christmas cards, share with family & friends, and my wife takes several up to various villages in Alaska to share with her tribal elders and kinfolk. Save a handful for ourselves to snack on throughout the year.
 
Scrapes opened back up on my lease in White cty the 2nd/ 3rd. I went today but didn't even see a squirrel. Cameras showed daytime movement activity last 3 days.
 
Traditionally when we have acorns, the deer are on our place. If no acorns, they're not there. But the years we have an over-abundance like this year, we don't even get our fall range shifters. We do but it's like 30% of normal. I just want to get back to the normal average of a 5-8 out of 10 on acorns. That's when our place thrives.

The rut correlates. They're either there or they're not. If you don't have a huntable population of mature deer, you ain't killing them. A typical year we would have 5-8 shooters, but lately it's been 2-3 a year. That's some tough hunting.

Congrats @megalomaniac - you've got something good your doing going on there
 

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