Evidently you just don't get it.

Peak rut is governed by fawn survival, adn the rut is triggered by shortening hours of daylight in the fall. Through several generations, the does that have fawns survive, pass on the genetics to breed during the right week of the year to have their fawns survive. Does that breed at the wrong time of the year to have their fawns survive (spring weather) don't pass on the genetics to breed a the wrong time, and the genetics to breed at the wrong time dies out. Survial of the fittest and natural selction.


Unless you actually see the does get bred, you cannot make accurate predictions on when peak breeding occurs. So, based on what you have told us, your methods, and your conclusions are highly suspect, and according to deer biologists - you are wrong.

Here is an excert from my Complete Whitetail Addict's Manual - that may help.

Fawn Survival
The time of year when whitetails breed in each area is dependent on the survival rate of the fawns in the spring. Spring fawn survival depends on weather conditions that are warm enough so the fawns won't die from exposure, and on the availability of spring forage, so that the does have enough to eat to produce milk for the fawns. Through trial and error, and selective survival over several generations, the deer in each area have adapted their breeding schedule so that they breed approximately 200 days before the arrival of spring in their area. To ensure that at least some of the fawns survive each year not all of the does breed, or produce fawns, at the same time. An extended fawning season ensures that some fawns will live even when there is a late spring. Because of this, the length of the breeding season in most deer herds lasts six or more weeks, which makes it hard to predict when peak breeding occurs, especially if it is in associated with the phase of the moon - which it is not.


God bless,

T.R.