This seems to be an extremely knowledgable crowd, so I want to pose a few questions concerning the whitetail rut. I am currently reading a book called "Hunting Whitetails by the Moon." I am curious if anyone has read it and what were your thoughts? The more I read, the more interested I get. I have gone back through my hunting logs (and from memory) and definitely see a correlation from when I thought the rut occurred and when the author (Alshiemer) predicted the rut to occur. Can anyone else verify a correlation also? And as a side note, I am just curious if anyone has their own theories as to the trigger (or triggers) of the whitetail rut in the fall.