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Does still in heat, bucks in rut?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 4860252" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I can't say I've ever seen it this late but I don't doubt it. I shot a nice 8pt a few years ago hound dogging an obviously playful doe on October 3d. She was with a group of 6 does. They were all running away from him except for her. She would stop and wait for him to catch up before running off again. She eventually brought him 18yds in front of my tree. Classic doe in heat rut action, only 45 days before I usually see that kind of stuff. I regularly see it way into January, but that was the first time I witnessed it so early. I've heard biologists say that if a buck has hard antlers he is ready to breed, so everything depends on does. I guess nature is just weird. Sometimes my wife gets frisky at the oddest, most unexpected times, and I dare not say no!</p><p></p><p>I saw a chart showing different timelines for regions of Alabama. Some areas would fall into rut way late in the season like late January & February. Deer don't understand state lines, and being so close to the Alabama line, it isn't far fetched to think there's a population overlap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 4860252, member: 20583"] I can't say I've ever seen it this late but I don't doubt it. I shot a nice 8pt a few years ago hound dogging an obviously playful doe on October 3d. She was with a group of 6 does. They were all running away from him except for her. She would stop and wait for him to catch up before running off again. She eventually brought him 18yds in front of my tree. Classic doe in heat rut action, only 45 days before I usually see that kind of stuff. I regularly see it way into January, but that was the first time I witnessed it so early. I've heard biologists say that if a buck has hard antlers he is ready to breed, so everything depends on does. I guess nature is just weird. Sometimes my wife gets frisky at the oddest, most unexpected times, and I dare not say no! I saw a chart showing different timelines for regions of Alabama. Some areas would fall into rut way late in the season like late January & February. Deer don't understand state lines, and being so close to the Alabama line, it isn't far fetched to think there's a population overlap. [/QUOTE]
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