Originally Posted by
LittleChief
I find it hard to believe any doe could be in estrus this early also, but what the heck could be causing all of the buck sightings so early? I don't know. Maybe they've been there all along and I'm just finally learning how to really hunt.
It's possible for sure. They say that estrous cycles follow a normal bell shaped curve, with the peak (in Ohio for instance), being right around the first week of November.
The peak of the curve sees the largest percentage of does coming into estrous near the peak of the rut.
Then as the curve goes away from the peak in both directions, smaller yet equal percentages of does come into estrous well before and after the peak.
So if we are to agree that there are a small amount of does that come into estrous in December (which I think most people would agree to this), then the curve predicts that a small amount of does will most likely be coming into estrous in October.