Second rut
11-16-2003, 08:08 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Shreveport, LA
Posts: 305
Second rut
Has anyone ever noticed the second rut being better than the primary rut. Due to warm weather this rut has been a bust so far. I am hoping that it will be good next month when the unbread doe come back in heat.
11-16-2003, 08:20 PM
#2
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: CWD Central, WI.
Posts: 2,062
RE: Second rut
Isn' t it a tad early for the rut down your way? To answer your question, no. Seems to me that after the primary, you can see a buck on a doe anytime during the next couple months. That would include more than just the second.
11-16-2003, 09:26 PM
#3
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Shreveport, LA
Posts: 305
RE: Second rut
Isn' t it a tad early for the rut down your way?
Something has gone " bad" wrong with the Ar. deer heard. It has been seriously depleated. Some say desease, some say Buffalo Knats. Four years ago there were deer everywhere, three years ago we didn' t see any deer. But thats a different story.
11-17-2003, 07:50 AM
#4
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County PA USA
Posts: 12,157
RE: Second rut
I have never seen a year when the secondary rut (in December in these parts) was better than the primary rutting period...though I have seen one or two that were very impressive...including one about ten years ago when I took a nice 8 pointer off of some public land.
For your sake, I hope we don' t have the same problem with our herd.
