Originally Posted By: glencoeguy
Thanks guys...for reference, I weigh 192 sitting by him. Strange occurrence on this hunt. This buck was in full stinking rut, and yesterday afternoon not 200 yards from where I killed him I hunted a food plot and had an 8, 6 and two spikes come out together in a line and feed. None of them had colored hocks or anything. Buck sign everywhere, thought this was a little odd. Anyhow, it worked out.


This year has been an education for me. I have come to understand the rut is highly variable and particular to the ancestry of the deer. One of my friends hunts BNF and their rut was in the middle of December. Deer from Michigan were dropped there and shows how different deer can be. I'm guessing from mid December to mid February there are deer in rut in Alabama. Doesn't seem like it is hard and fast that you can nail it down in a larger area.


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