No its not post rut I couted 15 bucks on my way to work this morning that crossed the road infront of me and all of them were in a radar mode. If you ask me its really just getting to the peak now I havent seen that many deer in one trip to work in a long time. Im not sure what good calls will do now because they dont really respond well to calls during the rut but hey you can try. At least ive never had any good response during the peak of the rut with calls.