Plus, it's the last best day of the 2024 whitetail rut—so you need to get out there. Do your food-source homework and today should be an excellent day to wrap your tag around a heavy set of antlers.

You've waited all year for this — the whitetail deer rut. You spent the spring hunting shed antlers. You spent summer glassing red-coated bucks with bulbous velvet antlers. You endured the ...

So you will understand, whitetail does will come into estrous and be attractive to the bucks for about a week. The does are receptive for only a period of about 24 hours during that time.

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 ...

The rut guide I provide on my site (bigdeer.com) season was spot on based on these moon phase observations last year. “When a doe’s estrogen level peaks, a buck’s testosterone peaks and the full moon ...

Someday in a future deer season, whitetail hunters will be on the same page when discussions of rut timing take center stage around the fire. But it is not now. — Oak Duke writes a weekly column.

Outdoors: Local mating rut for whitetail deer is peaking More does ovulate between Nov. 11 and 13 than any other time of year in Massachusetts ...

It is called the “rut” — the breeding season for whitetail deer. At this latitude, anyhow, you can roughly figure early to mid-October through mid-December as the rut.

Big game hunters pursuing whitetail deer are coming into an exciting time as we approach what deer chasers refer to as “the rut.” This is when a doe’s estrogen level increases, a buck’s ...

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 ...

So you will understand, whitetail does will come into estrous and be attractive to the bucks for about a week. The does are receptive for only a period of about 24 hours during that time.

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 ...