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It has been my experience that nocturnal bucks move in the daylight during the rut. Even in high pressure areas. So yes, I like my chances better during the rut. yep
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I’ve never killed a buck chasing a doe. I’ve killed a bunch of them cruising/ checking scrapes though.
I've only killed 2 actually chasing in my 30 years of hunting...I've seen several from the road, and a couple really big ones hunting but no luck on getting a shot off
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My experience in the 4 short years I’ve lived here……my sightings, shot opportunities, and kills on the same bucks I “hope” to see during the rut, are way higher during the first 5 days of bow season. Bucks are unpressured, generally daylight moving on food, and probably have been patterned on your cameras for weeks if not months. Get a slight cool down on those first 5 days and for me it’s far better than the rut, like it was this year. Grab a bow, thermacell and enjoy. 100 percent accurate. I pray one day the DNR would get their heads out of their rears and Open bow season the last week of September state wide before row crop is removed. Where I hunt, the genetics are so mixed up it’s a trickle rut from second week of December till the end of January. Only if you happen to be there when that one hot doe is in the area will you get a chance.
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I’ve never relied on rut to kill a buck. Heck the first few years I hunted growing up I didn’t even know deer rutted. It made no difference. I hunted them the same. I rely on the right conditions to kill a specific deer and when they arrive I go hunt. My most successful periods during the season are archery, ML and the first week of rifle. I’ve killed far more bucks then than the rut. My idea is put him down before he travels 3 miles and gets put down by someone else. Trying to kill a specific buck in rut has been a fairly futile effort for me. They move too dang much. I want him dead before rut ever arrives. With that said, I have killed big deer in rut, but no more than I have any other time. If I had to choose the best time to hunt all season it would be the first two weeks of archery and the first week of rifle.
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Supreme Fact Checker
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I've hunted my whole life n I hardly ever see mature bucks outside of the rut unless it's very early in bow season...I'm not talking full blown rut but a couple weeks before and then from there on until the end of season...basically all January till end of February...that don't stop me from hunting December but I've only killed 2 that's on the wall during December How many do you have on the wall from January/February?
I had much rather be tried by twelve than carried to my grave by six!!!!
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I've hunted my whole life n I hardly ever see mature bucks outside of the rut unless it's very early in bow season...I'm not talking full blown rut but a couple weeks before and then from there on until the end of season...basically all January till end of February...that don't stop me from hunting December but I've only killed 2 that's on the wall during December How many do you have on the wall from January/February? I've killed a lot in January n then a couple since February was introduced...not many on the wall but in general....9 that I have some type of mount of
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Good hunters and those lucky ones can kill bucks all season. But during the rut mature bucks lose their minds and are more susceptible to being killed . Out in the open , out in daylight hours , out of their core / safe zones. Females can make males do stupid stuff ! 😳
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Good hunters and those lucky ones can kill bucks all season. But during the rut mature bucks lose their minds and are more susceptible to being killed . Out in the open , out in daylight hours , out of their core / safe zones. Females can make males do stupid stuff ! 😳 I never see old mature deer during the rut. I see tons of 1, 2, and 3 yr olds being stupid. The older deer, at least on our place vanish (get in a thick area with a doe) for 5 or so days. Kill them right before and right after peak breeding. Got a 4 yr old we are wanting to kill and today is the first day he has shown up in 6 days, started to think he was dead.
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I can only think of a couple good ones I’ve killed during the rut that I knew were around, now I’ve killed several that I never had a picture of during the rut
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We’ve killed 8 bucks in 8 years on one of our properties. All but one were killed between 1/5 and 1/10. The other was killed opening morning of firearms. I’m hunting tomorrow through Saturday 😁
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Its getting to be a little to residential around here. If you kill a good buck around here itll be during or around rut time, or itll be 11:00 at night and youll hit it in a car. Thats about the only way youre getting one. It just is what it is
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I think this relates more to pressure than any other factor. In typical Alabama hunting club lands there is too much pressure. Big bucks disappear after the guns start booming until the rut overcomes their senses of self preservation. Bow season, the first week of gun season and the rut are the best opportunities on most land in Alabama.
On low pressure lands, this is not the situation.
Pressure is the key. AND THIS It has been my experience that nocturnal bucks move in the daylight during the rut. Even in high pressure areas. So yes, I like my chances better during the rut. Unpressured land , good woodsmanship , knowing you're property and deer, a feller can kill them bout anytime . However, the rut greatly increases the chances.
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Good hunters and those lucky ones can kill bucks all season. But during the rut mature bucks lose their minds and are more susceptible to being killed . Out in the open , out in daylight hours , out of their core / safe zones. Females can make males do stupid stuff ! 😳 I never see old mature deer during the rut. I see tons of 1, 2, and 3 yr olds being stupid. The older deer, at least on our place vanish (get in a thick area with a doe) for 5 or so days. Kill them right before and right after peak breeding. Got a 4 yr old we are wanting to kill and today is the first day he has shown up in 6 days, started to think he was dead. Try hunting more in cold weather. 
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Good hunters and those lucky ones can kill bucks all season. But during the rut mature bucks lose their minds and are more susceptible to being killed . Out in the open , out in daylight hours , out of their core / safe zones. Females can make males do stupid stuff ! 😳 I never see old mature deer during the rut. I see tons of 1, 2, and 3 yr olds being stupid. The older deer, at least on our place vanish (get in a thick area with a doe) for 5 or so days. Kill them right before and right after peak breeding. Got a 4 yr old we are wanting to kill and today is the first day he has shown up in 6 days, started to think he was dead. I don’t/ can’t post pictures but I’ll be happy to text you a picture of a pretty good 10 my son killed 2 years ago . He had run all over our farm , crossed the road and had been seen by all the neighbors till my son stopped the chase .
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I think this relates more to pressure than any other factor. In typical Alabama hunting club lands there is too much pressure. Big bucks disappear after the guns start booming until the rut overcomes their senses of self preservation. Bow season, the first week of gun season and the rut are the best opportunities on most land in Alabama.
On low pressure lands, this is not the situation.
Pressure is the key. Definitely agree not to say you won't see a hungry azz buck worn down from chasing gorging In a green field late but hunting gets tough after the rut unless in lower Alabama with late rut
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All you have to do is go to your local processor a few times before the rut then go a few times during the rut to see why people want to use there time to hunt during the rut.
If you're gonna be stupid you better be tough.
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Seems like the more I go the better luck I have
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Lol yall act like Alabama only has one rut .
Main conception date's don't mean ALL does were bred at that time.
Here at home (Elmore county) I've hunted it all my life I've seen does bred in late Nov. Dec , Jan . Give or take! !!!!
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Seems like the more I go the better luck I have Key to Hunting.....
Did you know that Beer Nutz are over a Dollar...and Deer Nutz are under a Buck...
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Lol yall act like Alabama only has one rut .
Main conception date's don't mean ALL does were bred at that time.
Here at home (Elmore county) I've hunted it all my life I've seen does bred in late Nov. Dec , Jan . Give or take! !!!!
I can hunt the Rut in Bama from late Oct all the way to Feb and drive less than 3 hrs all season....
Did you know that Beer Nutz are over a Dollar...and Deer Nutz are under a Buck...
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