Very interesting info ranchand99...I am assuming you are refering to the State of Georgia in your post. Georgia is one place I have never huntedso I am not arguing with yourstatement on the breeding season, but goodness, if your herd is breeding in September and continuing to do so through the New Year your rut is really stretched out. Talk about a "trickle rut"... For those who would like to know when a doe was bred obviously a fetus is an excellent indicator.

Again interesting information thanks for taking the time to reply....

Dan, thanks for the story....It is the first dozen words of your post that makes me want to ask a question...Would you have searched for the fetus' had this thread not existed? Did you learn anything from the experience?

As for the last line of your post....All I can say is; Records are made to be broken!

AE,We do have a trickle rut down here in SE coastal ga.It is nothing like north ga or other states like Illinois,or Missouri have.They start in late Sept,with the first peak being in Mid-October..during bow season.We find scrapes all season..I just found a fresh scrape 2 days ago,but I found my first pawing around sept 15th this year.Trickle ruts are not as fun to hunt as what ya'll have.We actually have around4 ruts.The strongest ismid-Oct,and the 2nd rut in mid-Nov.Alot of people like to argue with me about this,because they see rutting in Nov.I am out there with a bow from sept 10th or so on..I see the first rut.It's when gun season comes inafter late Oct..and there are more hunters in the woods that they see the 2nd rut,and think it is the "main" rut.My Uncle shot a big 9pt On Dec 9th back in 96 that was chasing a doe.I have heard of other people seeing them chase does in Jan.So basically you could go out from Sept to Jan,and see a buck chasing a doe...and that means that the "rut" hunting isn't all that good.<---IMO.Our coastal deer are strange for sure.Here is a study Ft.Stewart has done...As you can see does have been found to of been bred as early as Sept.20th.They do their anual fetus check at christmas.I feel the fetus' are not developed enough at that time for them to see that the does could have been bred after Dec 1st.

[ul][*]AVERAGE PEAK OF RUT 2004-2005: [/ul]
The First major peak generallyoccurs within the 2nd and 3rdweek of October but was a week earlier in 2004-2005.

well... instead of killing two birds with one stone, u killed two deer with one arrow. R u sure u killed it and it wasn't wounded and it died there earlier. if ur arrow passed through the lungs of the first deer and there was another deer bedded behind that it would make sense.

AE, I actually never would have looked even after reading the thread. It just happened that one fetus was laying on the ground when I gutted it. I was pretty cool. You could see hooves, dew claws, and ears.
Let me know if you break it!

Wow, being "3 inches" and with your description she must have really got bred early...

Exactly what I thought. My brother and I were amazed.

I agree with BOWFANATIC you should donate the extra doe meat to the poor and needy and just forget about the whole thing.

NO you should never stop bow hunting!!!!!!!!

Way to go Antler Eater, over 4700 hits and people are still posting without reading. And tha saga continues.

Dont drink and post man! Read into this a bit further