but then again , i just found this.........but the date is 02....so i don't know..........guess we'll just have to wait and see.


10/27/02

By DENNIS APRILL, Outdoors Columnist
There are some hunters who believe fall full moons like this can predict the dates of the rut, a key time when bucks are very active, day and night, and more vulnerable. So, the knowledge of when the rut occurs, these hunters argue, is important to a successful fall hunt.
To those who subscribe to the lunar theory in predicting the rut - among them deer authorities like Wayne LaRoche, Charles Alsheimer and Dick Bernier - the rut peaks seven days following the rutting moon, the second full moon after the fall equinox (Sept. 23). This year that full moon is Nov. 19, so according to lunar proponent Dick Bernier, 70-80 percent of does will be bred during the seven days following, or up to Nov. 26.
Bernier writes in the October issue of the "Outdoors" magazine, "Scrapes and rubs will start to intensify, as will buck movement by November 14. Bucks will begin chasing prospective mates on or about November 18. with the peak being reached on December 1." That, by the way, is the last day of the regular firearms season in the Northern Zone of New York.
There is some scientific justification to support the general theory. If does are bred after the rutting moon - 200 to 205 days later, the average gestation time frame - fawns will be born during the 14 darkest nights in spring or the new moon of late May or early June.