Actually, in my area, he has missed the mark for two years, and I've only looked at his date for two years. Last year, he predicted peak rut to be in early to mid December, with little to no rutting activity in November. Yet in our area, the usual time period of Halloween to November 15 was good. According to Charles, it should have been dead. Also, I didn't see, and I don't know anyone who saw, sustained rutting activity in the first two weeks of December last year.

As for this year, He predicted bucks would be resting from the Halloween period through the first week of November, yet our guys in Ohio had the best rutting activity of the year at that time. In NJ, guys were reporting good rutting activity as well. I planned my vacation time around his prediction and missed it big time. For me, it was the worst rut I've seen in a long, long time. I think I just missed it. The best plan is to hunt whenever you can, and pay attention to what is going on in the woods, not what some moon table predicts.

There are many factors that affect the timing of the rut, but I don't really think his moon tables are very reliable, at least they have not been accurate where I, and many others I know hunt.