ORIGINAL: Goose 11
Well, that cold weather was nice, and it would have helped get our rut really going, but here comes another warm front! If there was much rutting behavior last week it will probably die down this week. Looks like the last two weeks are our only hope of catching the bucks in a craze.
You know, I wish the state would either let us use bait or let the season go into February. I would love to bow hunt until December and then get to use the gun until February!
I'm with you Goose. I would love to see them shift everything by a month. Start bow season in mid-November--it's not near as hot as it usually is in October--start gun season in mid-December and let the both of them run through the end of February. It is very disappointing to have the second rut, and somethimes the peak of the main rut (depending on the part of the state) after the season is over.
There have been many times I have seen bucks running does all over fields during the middle of February. All I can do is pull the truck off the side of the road and daydream of sitting in a stand on the edge of the field trying to get that perfect shot.
I'd be interested in seeing what the odds of getting such a change implemented or at least considered.
By the way, as stated in post above, I hunt in Tallapoosa County.