Late Rut
 

My grandson and I picked up a couple of cameras we had out for 4 days last Saturday. There were four nice 8 points and several younger bucks in the pictures. They are still hard in rut. They look like they have lost 50 pounds or more. Active scrapes are all over the place, more than we saw in late Jan while the season was still open. I don't know what could be done to the south Bama deer herd to get the rut kicked off earlier in the year, but they will be chasing does for another month it looks like.

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try putting a mineral out called buckgory.It gits the deer after the does.

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Rut, in the middle of March? Have you been hitting the sauce Timber?

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Nope, no sauce on this one,come on down and I can show you dozens of fresh scrapes.

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twice this week while listening for turkeys,i've seen bucks after does. its almost a yearly thing to see them at the start of turkey season. i'm just alittle west of timbercruzr...............tony

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Here in SE Alabama, atleast somne of the does come in heatwell after the end of our season, which has come on Jan. 31 for many, many years. I am guessing the second estrus but I am not so sure that it has not been the first in some ways. Ihave seen bucks fighting like heck, freshly worked rubs and frequently worked scrape lines down into mid spring turkey season ... late March and early April. It is not unusual to see very young, fully spotted 30 +/-pound fawns into middle of November. I have often wondered why when what I read from folks up north is that the peak of the rut islate October to early November-ish?

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Thats weird!

Its weird they still have antlers to!

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I've never heard of a rutgoing on in March.Only in Florida I guess.

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Sounds like turkeys using old scrapes to dust in more than likely.

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Nope, guaranteed it wasn't turkeys. These are active scrapes down to bucks urinating in them fresh. I've been deer hunting for close to40 years and I think I know what a scrape looks like. These were in south Bama, but there is activity in north Florida also.

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Must be Spring break;)

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Yesterday behind my house I watched several deer. The lead deer was a doe and seemed to be in a hurry. She was followed by several other deer. I noticed the one was a buck which dropped half of his rack (small 4 point).When they got closer to by house (right behind my elevated deck) the doe stopped. As she stopped, the deer behind her tried to mount her. I noticed this deer was also a buck which recently lost his horns. The doe didn't seem to be to thrilled by this and nervously moved away quickly. I know this is hard to believe but I watched it with my own eyes.

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Come on down Yank,we'll show you.Hunting season ended March1.

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You can find out when peak rut or peak breeding occurs in most states, and how breedingvaries by state, by Googling "Peak Whitetail Rut Dates".

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Timbercruiser is correct.Unless I have totally lost it, which at my age is entirely possible, I don't think turkeys have hooves.And I simply find it hard to believe that even the biggest, baddest,boss gobbler coould manage to rake the bark off a 3" hickory. All kidding aside, for folks that do not hunt deer this far south it does seem strange. But it is true. The territorial marking that I have seen in the March time frame is no where as common as it is during the November-December time frame, but there is often clear evidence of fresh scraping and rubbing going on. I have never seen bucks running does this time of year, so maybe this is not a "rut' activity but some otherof which I am not aware.I will be in the turkey woods this weekend. I'll look for "rut" sign and post next week some time.Better yet, if I find a hot scrape I'll set up a trail camera.

SEALE ALABAMA RUT ??????
 

WHERE IN S ALA DO YALL HUNT? WE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM I GUESS. WE HUNT IN SEALE ON OSWICHIEE RD.COULD NEVER GET IT RIGHT.

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Bingo![:@] IMO, but, then again.........

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Rocker I hunt in the Troy area and also south of Elba.

Crokit, it ain't no dang turkey!!!!