The more you travel around and talk to hunters the more you realize how nuts the rut plays out in some areas due to how things got restocked……There are some places around here where you could legitimately have a doe coming into heat anytime from Thanksgiving to Feb 10……..The Uchee SOA is sitting in one such area where a hodgepodge of doe stockings merged together with possibly what was left of some native does……There’s about a 10-15 mile wide swath east to west through that area where folks could be seeing something different from one property to the next just depending on the makeup of the doe herd that currently occupies their property….

What makes it even more interesting is that while everything is probably fairly stable these days, there’s still going to be some fluid movement of the different doe populations still occurring just depending on which does live and reproduce more successfully. There’s going to be areas like this all over Alabama where different doe lineages are merging or have merged together…..It kinda throws some of that traditional management stuff out the window about shooting does to create a tight rut …..Its almost not even possible for some folks……It would be interesting to see how the dynamics of the larger buck herd is reacting to such situations……Are some bucks moving long distances all season looking for hot doe areas??