Continue reading Here’s how to hunt deer during the pre-rut. The pre-rut is all about finding the fresh sign. Search for tracks and trails, but then focus on buck sign, specifically rubs and ...

Mike Hanback with a great Montana buck that he rattled in during the rut. Michael Hanback 2) A bunch of antler-mangled saplings or cedar branches are sign of an aggressive buck—the kind of beast you ...

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 ...

Hunters can use moon phases, temperatures and sunlight hours trying to determine when a deer will rut, but it's much simpler than that. “When will the rut occur this year?” It’s one of the ...

He saw deer, just none to rival the 8-point buck he took the week before. See, it’s getting close to the rut, the prime time for hunters to, hopefully, take the buck they’ve been seeing during ...

As the calendar flipped to November, white-tailed deer are approaching the peak of their breeding activity — known as the rut — around mid-month. Field & Stream writer Scott Bestul reports ...

Yellowstone used the footage in August 2020 to caution tourists about the rut, or mating season, which typically lasts from late July through August. The video clip is titled, “Bison fight.” ...

I have already taken advantage of this year’s rut. I was able to punch my Missouri archery tag on a great old buck I had a lot of history with. I didn’t expect him to show when he did, but I ...