I spent 4 years in Pensacola, FL and the peak of the rut there usually hit right around Martin Luther King Day. There is a late muzzleoader season in FL that runs to the end of Feb and I always saw at least some sign (scrapes, rubs, buck hot on the does etc...) for most of that season. In VA, where I'm stationed right now, the rut normally hits around Thanksgiving. In CO where I was raised the rut hits late Nov oor early Dec.
The farther South you go, the later the rut is. I'm not sure about the deer farther South than Mexico though. Whitetails is some form exist clear down into Central America. I know a guy that hunts Guyana and he does some guiding for whitetails in the tropics there.
I admit I've never seen spotted fawn while hunting but I did see an elk calf once with spots during CO's muzzleloader season years ago. That would have been late Sept or early Oct.
Last edited by flags; 12-03-2013 at 12:22 AM.