Rut just getting started
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: loprofile
08-Jan-25
We have been hunting since October 15 in Alabama but our rut is just getting started and we go through February 10. Based on the incoming calls for dog tracking things are heating up.
From: Bou'bound
08-Jan-25
That’s just plain mean
From: buckeye
08-Jan-25
I had no idea it would be this late in the season, I know Florida has a wide range of dates for the rut.
From: Trying hard
08-Jan-25
S.E. Wisconsin...our rut was/is something around November 7-15....possibly a little earlier than Nov.7 I did not realize the rut in the southern states is so much later than ours
From: Nick Muche
08-Jan-25
Parts of Florida they rut in July.
From: HUNT MAN
08-Jan-25
Just got back and the rut was just starting . Always fun to hit the rut a few times in a year.
From: Corax_latrans
08-Jan-25
One of the guys on the CT forum said he saw a buck taking a few liberties just in the last few days…
Everything seems kinda jacked up this year….
From: Thehospitabledoc
08-Jan-25
Always a late rut in my part of AL, too. By this point in the season the public land deer sure are skittish.
From: iceman
08-Jan-25
I hunt in Mississippi. Rut in full swing right now.
From: Shug
08-Jan-25
Still rutting here in NJ
From: Zbone
08-Jan-25
Heard peak Coues Whitetail rut is January...
From: arlone
08-Jan-25
Believe a buck will "rut" anytime there is a doe in estrus? They don't need the two "horns" on their head either. I imagine the southern bucks do not shed then till after your normal rut down there?
From: Zbone
08-Jan-25
"a buck will "rut" anytime there is a doe in estrus? They don't need the two "horns" on their head either"
So true... I seen a shed buck breed a doe in January once, and I think it was Pat last year that got a trail-cam picture of the same...
From: loprofile
10-Jan-25
In our county the state says the peak is from 2/1 through 2/10. I have had 26 tracking calls since 1/1. Many of them reported bucks chasing does.
From: loprofile
10-Jan-25
This was from a happy bowhunter this morning.
From: bigswivle
10-Jan-25
I’ll be back in Alabama next week, can’t wait.
From: Double Creek
10-Jan-25
Mature bucks don’t show up on my little place until late January. It’s like clockwork every year. I’m just about as far south as you can be in Alabama. Saw a couple small bucks pushing does around yesterday morning.
From: loprofile
10-Jan-25
Good luck guys!
From: Lewis
11-Jan-25
One day in February on our old lease not far Naples Florida me along with the other members saw a hard horned buck, a buck that had shed one side,spotted fawns, a buck mounting a doe, and pregnant does so go figure Good luck Lewis love watching those tracking dogs.
