Delayed seasonal range shift

[BSK]

...first couple weeks of December- February is usually when the bigger deer show up.

How interesting. When is your peak breeding?

Mine is VERY tightly timed and you can be guaranteed no new bucks will show up beginning about halfway through peak breeding. In fact, bucks really vanish as soon as peak breeding is over. In fact, I would bet we're down to only 15 or so bucks using the property by mid-December, and few of them will be older bucks.

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

How interesting. When is your peak breeding?

Mine is VERY tightly timed and you can be guaranteed no new bucks will show up beginning about halfway through peak breeding. In fact, bucks really vanish as soon as peak breeding is over. In fact, I would bet we're down to only 15 or so bucks using the property by mid-December, and few of them will be older bucks.

Honestly I'd say peak breeding here is from around Thanksgiving until Dec 15. We seem to fall in a line where we get rut genetics from the north and rut genetics from the south.

 

[BSK]

Honestly I'd say peak breeding here is from around Thanksgiving until Dec 15. We seem to fall in a line where we get rut genetics from the north and rut genetics from the south.

Again, very interesting.