Last day of my elk hunting I bumped a big muley. Nice horns. Big guys usually don't show up until it's late elk season and they are getting interested. Saw several med/small bucks with does earlier, but not really rutting.
Today I as I had coffee I watched a whitey chasing around after a doe. Nice buck, not huge, but nice. Horns out to the tips of his ears, fairly high and heavy. Probably a 4X4.
Muley is right on time, but it seemed a bit early for the whitey, usually more toward turkey day.
Rut has started.....
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Well, I don't think it is at all early for the whitetail rut over here. And as evidence, this morning I had 4 bucks and 2 does bunched up behind the house checking each other out. As per usual, the bucks are ready, the does are not (median date of conception is 17 Nov I'm told - pretty much everywhere). The most activity seems to be on the front side of that as the bucks are harrassing unwilling does.
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Just straddling the hard line between "the arrogance of dogmatism and the despair of skepticism"
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