Was on a job-site in Aurora and saw 2 bucks fighting for about 40 minutes. It was awesome! They were both 8-pointers, and the smaller/younger one would run way over in one difection, then turn and run way over in the other direction, and then turn again and run up to and lock up with the bigger buck. They'd go at it for a few minutes, and then they'd break, and the smaller buck would do the running-thing all over again. And when they locked up, they were fighting! Pushing and sliding each other around. They were really into it. There must have been 15 different tradesmen watching them.

One of the other carpenters and I were talking about the second rut, and he said he's convinced there's a second, third and fourth rut. He said that on the property he use to hunt, they'd see bucks chasing does in March. He said that if an area doesn't have alot of bucks, and all the does don't get bred during the first rut, then there's a second and thirdandthey would come into estrus every month until they bred and got pregnant.

Makes sense to me.