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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5492387" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Far too many hunters make incorrect assumptions about the rut for 2 reasons... low sample size... just because you personally don't observe an estrus chase or tending does not mean the rut is not going on...for example, 'I hunted all weekend and didn't see a single doe in heat, and I saw 15 of them!'</p><p></p><p>Or 2... they don't understand the dynamics of the actual breeding cycle... that it starts out with just a sporadic doe or two here and there in estrus, which then triggers the intense seeking phase, leading to peak breeding/ lockdown, then followed by another (although less) intense seeking phase. This is spread out over 2 or 3 weeks... an example would be 'the rut is on! I saw 2 different bucks chase 2 different does like crazy' (but fail to recognize they were just yearling bucks chasing inreceptive does which has little bearing on actual breeding timing).</p><p></p><p>On my farms, actual seeking and peak breeding were right on time. Signs like orphaned fawns due to mothers being tended by bucks were right on time. Actual tending and breeding by mature bucks was right on time. Scrapes being abandoned/ used less frequently were right on time. But I am more (or less, depending on how you view it) fortunate than most in that I am hunting an intentionally unpressured deer herd prior to the rut with multiple hunters collecting observation data every single day for a 2 week period, in addition to 15 trail cameras collecting data as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5492387, member: 2805"] Far too many hunters make incorrect assumptions about the rut for 2 reasons... low sample size... just because you personally don't observe an estrus chase or tending does not mean the rut is not going on...for example, 'I hunted all weekend and didn't see a single doe in heat, and I saw 15 of them!' Or 2... they don't understand the dynamics of the actual breeding cycle... that it starts out with just a sporadic doe or two here and there in estrus, which then triggers the intense seeking phase, leading to peak breeding/ lockdown, then followed by another (although less) intense seeking phase. This is spread out over 2 or 3 weeks... an example would be 'the rut is on! I saw 2 different bucks chase 2 different does like crazy' (but fail to recognize they were just yearling bucks chasing inreceptive does which has little bearing on actual breeding timing). On my farms, actual seeking and peak breeding were right on time. Signs like orphaned fawns due to mothers being tended by bucks were right on time. Actual tending and breeding by mature bucks was right on time. Scrapes being abandoned/ used less frequently were right on time. But I am more (or less, depending on how you view it) fortunate than most in that I am hunting an intentionally unpressured deer herd prior to the rut with multiple hunters collecting observation data every single day for a 2 week period, in addition to 15 trail cameras collecting data as well. [/QUOTE]
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