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Not until the doe's come in season! :-)

Not until the doe's come in season! :-)

Peak about a week before Thanksgiving.

In east central part of Ms, according to the biologists, the peak of the rut around here is the 9th of January and that’s probably about right.

week of Halloween till nov.13ish is peak, then lock down, then rutting hard again

Some years, I’m not sure they do. Our deer seem to be nocturnal as heck.

LOL....mid Nov to mid February....depending on which direction I drive <60 miles to hunt.

Second week in November.

That all depends on when the moon peaks. Some doe’s will come in heat 3 days after the moon peaks in oct,nov,dec and maybe jan.

I doubt the moon has anything to do with it, but that’s just what I thought the science said.

Fl is all over the place. A lot is Oct/Nov. The pan handle and a part of Central Fl where I an is Jan/Feb. Some if south Fl should be starting around now and into August. It's crazy, just like a lot of stuff in Fl.

Around Veterans Day in my area.

Same time as everyone else, when ever mama says!

When im not hunting .

Around here in this part of NC it use to be around the second and third week of November and full blown around Thanksgiving but it's hard to tell anymore. I've seen them rutting as early as the middle of October and pre rut as early as late September. Who knows, it may be totally different this season.

November 8th

I live in the geographical center of my State, and the peak chasing that I see is around mid November. I also hunt in West Tennessee a lot, and in my area, peak chasing seems to be the last week of November thru the first week of December.