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.

Whitetail deer, as are other Cervidae, are termed “short-day breeders.” What that means is their hormones and pheromones are influenced to a great degree by light and photoperiodism.

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 ...

So this year, the whitetail rut of 2024 should unfold as it did in 2005, 1986 and 1967, the 19-year increments. Whitetails, and actually other “short-day breeders” like sheep and other ...

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.

Predicting the 2023 whitetail rut based on the moon. The full moon will be different this year. And so will the whitetail rut’s timing. The moon repeats itself every 19 years.

Whitetail Deer in Rut: The Best Hunting Time. Posted: December 10, 2024 | Last updated: March 7, 2025 "James Bigley Ranches offers unique insight on ranches, Western history, sustainability, and ...

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 ...

But, by definition, it’s the two weeks leading up to the start of the rut (which is when bucks are seeking does in estrus and breeding them). Bucks typically move more during the pre-rut, but they are ...

How the 2022 whitetail rut threw some curves at deer hunters Outdoors columnist Oak Duke attributes the drop-off in rutting activity in early November to Hurricane Nicole, which made landfall in ...