Plus, it's the last best day of the 2024 whitetail rut—so you need to get out there. Do your food-source homework and today should be an excellent day to wrap your tag around a heavy set of antlers.

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You've waited all year for this — the whitetail deer rut. You spent the spring hunting shed antlers. You spent summer glassing red-coated bucks with bulbous velvet antlers. You endured the ...

Hunting Big Game Hunting Deer Hunting Whitetail Deer Hunting Why I Hunt the Whitetail Rut by Moon Phase—and You Should Too. A veteran whitetail expert and host of Big Deer TV on why the moon phase is ...

The term rut was brought to America from England, where its Latin origin meant “roar.” Europe has red deer, ... Whitetail bucks, however, don’t come close to roaring.

So you will understand, whitetail does will come into estrous and be attractive to the bucks for about a week. The does are receptive for only a period of about 24 hours during that time.

It is called the “rut” — the breeding season for whitetail deer. At this latitude, anyhow, you can roughly figure early to mid-October through mid-December as the rut.

I read and studied every moon-based deer rut methodology, but while they all had good points, great logic, and of course photos of big bucks, I was never really sold on any of them 100%.

The author with a stud pre-rut buck. Photo by Josh Honeycutt. Don’t be afraid to make a big move. If it’s well-thought-out, and you can execute the plan without blowing up the rest of your season, go ...

Whitetail bucks coming out of the closet; rut heads for Nov. 20 peak Fri., Nov. 11, 2011 A whitetail buck makes advances on a doe during the rut in Western Montana on Nov. 6, 2011.

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all ...

So you will understand, whitetail does will come into estrous and be attractive to the bucks for about a week. The does are receptive for only a period of about 24 hours during that time.