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sounds like bs. what the deal with that?

90% of all rut activity we all see is 1.5 year old bucks chasing does. While its a great thing to witness, its really not a good dipiction of the rut or if things are "hot and heavy". The single most important thing to consider on the timing of the rut is "are there mature bucks on their feet during the day?". 1.5 year old bucks are pumped full of testosterone and act like teenage boys around the girls and they are looking for any kind of positive response from them. On the other hand mature bucks typically wont be on their feet until the first doe is in heat and not until that happens will they begin their pursuit. The first rut usually breeds 70-80% of all does 1.5 years and older. The unbred does will cycle again along with this years does (born ontime mid may- early june) about a month later. For all of you who believe in the full moon theory this would be the 3rd full moon after the autumn equinox. If it was up to mother nature then mature bucks would do all the breeding but with our buck herd dominated by younger bucks and the buck to doe ratio that tends to favor does, the chances of 1.5 year old bucks being a part of the breeding process is great. A does breeding window is short. About 24 hours. But she has a tendency to smell right 24 before and 12-24 hours after so bucks will stay with them for this entire time period which is almost 3 days. A breeder buck will go from girl to girl and will be quite busy for the entire breeding phase. A young buck will continue to seek and certainly take every opportunity put before him. While i believe does prefer mature buck, whether they are programed to seek dominate mates or if they simply prefer the maturity level of a older buck over a "teenager". if the time is right a doe will not let herself go unbred. So when opportunity knocks... Typically the second rut comes and goes without anyone ever even knowing. The seeking/ chasing phases are almost never seen, largly due to the decreasing buck population. Matures have felt the pressure in the woods by now and the majority of the exciting daytime rut activity happens at night. Once the rut is over priority one for mature bucks is to put the replenish themselves and put some winter weight on. Typically the last week of gun season and more importantly the late season provide an chance to witness this and also an opportunity, once again, at a big buck. Resorting back to tactics and patterns that were successful during the first week of the archery will prove be successful again as bucks (and does) return to their prerut behavior.

Holy Sh*t!

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congrats

congrats

happy birthday Keith!

wow. im glad to see you got your bow back. crazy story.

Happy Birthday

he has a crab claw and i believe a split g1 on his left side

Nothing really to report yet. Alot of deer sightings in the 1st full week and the second week of archery season always lags in comparison. Alot of scrapes are showing up and every trip in the woods there seems to be more and more. I have witnessed zero chasing but every doe i have seen in the past 5-6 days seems to be on edge and far from relaxed. A couple more days and the woods will be a different place.

Looks like quite a mess on this bucks head. Might be the best small rack ive seen.

very nice!

Good stuff, congrats!