Muley rut

[SkookumHntr]

Any opinions on what the best week is for the Mule deer rut timing?

[mburrows]

My un-professional opinion is that things peak the week of Thanksgiving

[Karl Blanchard]

Need more info. Big difference in timing between Arizona and Canada.

[Stein]

In MT, the hunter peak is the last week, no doubt about that where I hunt.

[SkookumHntr]

I’m talking okanogan country Muley’s! Not Montana lol

[cbond3318]

Nov. 9-15

[7mmfan]

Nov. 9-15

No no no. The 10th to the 17th. Definitely the best time. 

I have little experience other than one rut hunt in the Chewuch area. It was dead until the 10th and then all hell broke loose. The weather also went from 50 degrees to 5 degrees so that helped i'm sure.

[dvolmer]

Need more info. Big difference in timing between Arizona and Canada.

Exactly!  On the ranch that I hunt in Grant Co it is usually the last 10 days of November.  December 5th of last year was when I went up and filmed some bucks, they were still rutting late doe's pretty hard.  In north central Montana where we hunt it seems that the whitetail rut is a week or so before the mule deer rut with the mule deer rutting the 10 days of November with usually Thanksgiving being right in the middle of it all.

[Jpmiller]

Isn't the hard and fast rule that mule deer rut peaks the week before you get there or the day after you leave?

[BULLBLASTER]

Isn't the hard and fast rule that mule deer rut peaks the week before you get there or the day after you leave?

Only if you dont get the big one. If you get the big one, it was obvioulsy peak when you were there.

[andrew_in_idaho]

I think Idaho’s peak mule deer rut is the 1st week of November, I usually try and time my hunts to be hunting around Halloween because there tend to be some bucks starting to act crazy around the does. Shot a buck that was rutting hard on October 27th a couple of years back. Chasing does all over the hillside, lip curling, the full gambit


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[Igor]

Biggest buck I have ever taken was a 5x5 in full rut on Halloween Day in Chiwawa.

[Ricochet]

I've spent most of the last seven Novembers photographing rutting mule deer in SE Oregon.  Looking back at the number of photos taken each day gives me a pretty good idea of the activity level and it's been consistently right around the tenth.  I usually leave for home between the 22nd and the 25th because the bucks are starting to band together again and the action drops noticeably.  i photographed several mature bucks chasing does the last week of October.

This buck was already chasing does on October 25th and was missing several points by November 1st.

[cbond3318]

Nov. 9-15

No no no. The 10th to the 17th. Definitely the best time. 

I have little experience other than one rut hunt in the Chewuch area. It was dead until the 10th and then all hell broke loose. The weather also went from 50 degrees to 5 degrees so that helped i'm sure.

The 9th at 2:15pm it turns on. 

[Magnum_Willys]

You want to be in the woods all day on Halloween to get first crack at em - Muleys and Blacktail.  In Montana they go all the way thru Thanksgiving.