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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5759395" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Other than the obvious parade of bucks following her everywhere she goes? If a buck hasn't found her yet she'll be separated from her family group and alone. She does this just before getting hot and then returns pretty much immediately after she's done breeding. I'm unsure if she leaves on her own or if she's pushed out by the matriarch, but when she's hot she'll be alone. Most times especially in the first round of does to get bred, there'll be a gaggle of bucks hounding her before she separates. But as rut progresses and most bucks are locked down with a doe, some does come into heat and don't have an available buck to breed her so she wanders around alone and sometimes bawling her head off like a crying baby to attract a buck. If still she doesn't get bred then she'll go back with her group and will pop hot again 28 days later. And again and again until she's pregnant. </p><p></p><p>If you hunt the same spot year after year and know that there aren't any or many does being killed, you can record the dates for when you see a heavy chase going on. Some days you sit and it sounds like the woods are on fire because every deer is running crazy and bucks are grunting like pigs as they run. That's because a doe is in heat. Remember that day because she'll very likely be hot that same day again next year if she's alive, and you can plan a hunt around it. To be safe I give a day grace periods each side, so a three day planned hunt. It's uncanny. Nothing I know of is a better predictor that bucks will be moving in the area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5759395, member: 20583"] Other than the obvious parade of bucks following her everywhere she goes? If a buck hasn't found her yet she'll be separated from her family group and alone. She does this just before getting hot and then returns pretty much immediately after she's done breeding. I'm unsure if she leaves on her own or if she's pushed out by the matriarch, but when she's hot she'll be alone. Most times especially in the first round of does to get bred, there'll be a gaggle of bucks hounding her before she separates. But as rut progresses and most bucks are locked down with a doe, some does come into heat and don't have an available buck to breed her so she wanders around alone and sometimes bawling her head off like a crying baby to attract a buck. If still she doesn't get bred then she'll go back with her group and will pop hot again 28 days later. And again and again until she's pregnant. If you hunt the same spot year after year and know that there aren't any or many does being killed, you can record the dates for when you see a heavy chase going on. Some days you sit and it sounds like the woods are on fire because every deer is running crazy and bucks are grunting like pigs as they run. That's because a doe is in heat. Remember that day because she'll very likely be hot that same day again next year if she's alive, and you can plan a hunt around it. To be safe I give a day grace periods each side, so a three day planned hunt. It's uncanny. Nothing I know of is a better predictor that bucks will be moving in the area. [/QUOTE]
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