The rut is the breeding season for whitetail deer, and it's a highly anticipated time for hunters and wildlife enthusiasts.

Yes ladies and gentlemen and deer hunters everywhere, it’s time for your favorite deer season topic, and that is the rut. I ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and deer hunters everywhere it’s time for your favorite deer season topic, and that is the rut. I was contemplating skipping a column on this wildly ...

Peak breeding season, ‘the rut,’ is one of the periods South Carolina hunters look forward to. That gives them the best ...

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late October, leading up to the high point of daytime action, as opposed to ...

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...

Whitetail deer hunting in New York covers a variety of seasons and hunting implements. Of course, like most outdoor activities, timing is everything. The time is now if you are looking to take ...

Tired of sitting in a treestand yet? By the time the rut rolls around, many of us have spent days’—even weeks’—worth of hours 20 feet off the ground, just waiting. If you’re itching to get down and ...

I settled into my stand and waited. The Kentucky pre-rut with cool afternoon temps combined with the early muzzleloader season had me hopeful. Soon after sitting down, deer poured into the CRP fields ...

“From October to December, deer activity rises significantly, due to a variety of factors. Mating, hunting season as well, so being in November, we are right in the midst of that. So, it’s really ...