toby, you're speaking my language! i feel the same as you. that's why i started this thread. i want to give myself the best opportunity possible.

rack,

that's interesting...alsheimer monitors a radio-collared research group. so, he knows the days fawns are dropped in the spring and has found that using the 199 day gestation (sp?) period for fetuses he is able to know the day the fawns were conceived. and he states that all (well, i guess 80% give or take) fall into the breeding window following the rutting moon. (the other 20% were conceived during the breeding window of either the pre-rut moon or the post-rut moon.)

i just wish there was a simple answer because i'm being pulled both ways here. i just keep going back to the rut in my area never seems to happen at the same time from season to season...there must be reason why...