Excuse me for finding a huge bit of humor here...
It has been long established a single factor has more to do with rut timing than anything else. Anyone trying to put hard dates on a calendar as rut times is clueless, period.
Unbred does will go back into rut one or two times, at least, if they fail to breed the first round.
Amazingly, the timing for these "ruts" is very regular and reliable.
I have zero doubt the map has found a difference in rut timing, but rounding off errors and anecdotal weighting of evidence has created a joke.
You just flat don't know what you're talking about.
Our turkey season started today, and I will guarantee you that somewhere over the next few weeks I will see a buck chasing a doe somewhere on one of the different places I hUnt here in Alabama. It happens every year. I hunt at least 3 different ruts here within a 100 miles of each other, two different ruts about 6 weeks apart within 35 miles of each other.
