Winston county mississippi
 

I have an oportunity to go hunt with a friend on 800 acres in Winston co. MS. on their opening week the week before thanksgiving and am wondering if anyone can tell me what to expect as far as rut activity my friend says the rut is january but I have a hard time believing that I mean the deer cam pics show the deers horns are cleaned off I just cant believe they will wait til january to get after the does??????

i lived and hunted in the MS delta (bolivar co, NE MS) for the past 3yrs. The rut usually winds down the first week of Jan. In my experience mid to late Dec. is the peak of the rut. But if Winston Co. is in south MS, it very well could be Jan.

I live in Central MS and have hunted around Winston Co.. The rut usually starts around Christmas and carries over into January.. It will not be going on during November..

Winston County MS
 

I live in Winston County MS and the rut does not start until around Christmas and winds down about mid January. Most of the heavy rubbing and scrapping activity starts about the second weekend of Christmas and then the week of Christmas you start seeing chasing. About the middle of January most of the does have been breed, and you still see the bucks doing a lot of roaming after that looking for more does that may not have been breed the first time around. We have a pile of does here so a lot of them do not get breed the first go around.