Winter blahs...2016 rut prediction

[A Sportsman]

If I am going to sit in a tree stand and not see deer, I'd rather settle myself with the fact deer hunting can be difficult and unpredictable, you make the best decisions you can and go with it. This, rather than Getting angry at Charlie Alzheimer for talking me into taking off work to hunt a funnel stand on October 25th.

[Buckstopshere]

I've always had good luck Halloween to the 10th of nov....this year in the fingerlakes they were chasing hard thanksgiving week

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Yep, I witnessed it too. That was the second rut, the second prong of the rut, we had a bifurcated rut last year. My notes and historical rut spread sheet show me that on those years when we have an earlier than usual rut, we have a stronger than usual second rut around Thanksgiving. An inordinate number of does still traveled with fawns during that first rut spike in early November. Those does did not abandon their fawns to hang with the boys until into the regular gun season around Thanksgiving, here in the Southern Tier.