How was the rut in the areas you hunt this year versus years past? I've heard from almost everyone that this seasons rut was abnormal and deer movement was different from previous years. Please keep it simple and as short as possible.

Madison county, AL.
Rut started early and trickled the rest of season and never saw some does split from fawns. Killed one late season that was still lactating. Very odd rut and deer movement this season.
Giles county, TN.
Rut never seemed to kick in like years past and deer movement was very odd and irratic. What rut I saw seemed to be a few weeks later than usual.

Tallapoosa/Chambers Counties had very little rut activity. A few young ones moving and NO chasing at all.

So far in Mobile county it seems to be a little later and less intense. Pretty sure the bulk of our does are not in yet....

Eastern Dale and Western Henry was slow with very little chasing from mature deer. Started seeing rubs and new scrapes the last week of January. Very few does were seen the last two weeks.

I can't even understand what happened at our place. I'm going to speak with a biologist, and hopefully I'll be able to post on this topic.

Trickle rut on my place inJackson County. Spread out from XMAS until end of season. Big boys were on their feet doing most chasin during full moon..
Full moon and hunting pressure. Is not good combo.....fresh rubs las 5 days of January?

Like always trickle rut started in early January and will continue for a while.

Chambers/Lee county.. Young bucks looking.. very few good bucks seen. Shot 2 does last day of season and the hocks on one were snow white and the other was darkening but no smell at all on the glands.

Pike Co, as usual for the past 30 + years, late Jan some rut activity, but we probably have about 1/4th or less of the rut for hunting. Maybe they will do another study.

Hunted last 2 weeks of Jan. everyday saw a few young bucks out cruising ,older bucks still in the nocturnal mode ton of pictures at night time on scrapes and fields. Killed a few does
bag were full of milk. Last day saw some does running from younger buck. Wrong side of 65 in Butler County

Chilton cnty bucks started cruising the week of Christmas and continued till about the 3rd week in January. 4-5 bucks over 2.5 off 10,000 acres the older bucks never showed up and very little chasing. Deer movement was good for me but others saw very few.

Only chasing that we saw was on last day of season. They truly started on January 31st. This was in Coosa County.

Bibb county- who knows we saw signs of rut from 12/15-1/15. Not a lot though 2 bucks were killed during that time frame at my farm.

Lee county- second and third weekend of January was wild out in auburn. Saw all the rutting activity almost every time you entered the woods you were seeing chasing or grunting....

Macon county- never saw any rut activity. Some Scrapes were showing first week of January then nothing after that.

We saw a trickle rut in our place in Madison County and Jackson County. Never really seemed to get going good like times in the past.

SOuthern Tennessee was right on schedule.

Probably the least amount of activity witnessed by hunters. But it happened. All indications were there except seeing it.

I actually had an estrus chase on November 16 one night. I think I had near 100 pics of the same four bucks and one doe. Some pics the posture of the deer made it obvious what was going on. That was early for us by 10-12 days.

By December 15, the doe groups were back together and bucks feeding again.

Saw some scrapes opened up last week and a few fresh rubs as normal in late January. They seem to hit another spurt as their antlers start shedding. That has already started also with some younger bucks.

I only saw a 2.5 y/o buck chasing a doe. Heard another buck chasing, never saw it. Nobody saw any mature bucks, and the 2.5 y/o buck was the only rack buck seen. Sucky year for me.

We have been seeing young bucks cruising and following does for about 10 days. I saw a shooter slipping up a fire break Sat. morning and another one follow 4 does in a plot right at dark Sat afternoon. They both were 7 points and got a pass. A member killed a nice 8 point Sat morning following a doe on a plot. He looked to be 4, but was rut weary. Only weighted 162 with 2 antler tips broken. Deer seem to be moving the best in the middle of the day. Overall this has been a slow year, but we still have till Feb.10th.

In Montgomery County, I saw 3 or 4 does that were about to come in and had the attention of a few bucks. But we didn't see any hard chasing at all. Heard a few bucks grunting from time to time, but as usual our rut will peak in the next few days while we are sitting at home. Hopefully next year, they will extend the season to include Montgomery County as well.

Later than usual in Coffee County. Seen younger bucks cruising the last week. Big boys were still nocturnal. Shot a doe last day of the season and her hocks were slighty dark... none of the young bucks stunk. Scrapes were minimal compared to years past

Lamar co. , no hard and heavy weeklong rut in any of the areas that I hunted this year. saw does with little ones all season long. Only saw a few small bucks chasing sporadically. Numerous times I saw a large group of does (5-8) with nothing following them.