Rut Buddies

[boneaddict]

Peak of the rut and these two guys were hanging out like buddies.  This was a weird rut year. 

[scottfrick]

Mule deer are fascinating! Look at the size of that bucks body 🤯 great photo Bone!!

[2MANY]

I can smell it from here.

[bearhunter99]

Big ole swollen neck!  I saw more of this than usual myself where there were bucks hanging out together.  Maybe one of them was identifying as a doe?

[Knocker of rocks]

Oh, you wrote “rut buddies”.

I misread it.

[PsoasHunter]

That neck is ridiculous. Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

[Pathfinder101]

I agree that something was weird this year.  Rut was going full bore in Pogue, then just shut off for three days like someone turned off a faucet.  Went from watching mature bucks pushing harems to 0 rut activity literally overnight.  I even encountered a bachelor herd of 4, with a large buck in it. Then, all of a sudden, it turned back on.  Mature bucks acting crazy and pushing does again...

[270Flat]

Old man having the “talk” with the boy 🤣

[teal101]

Extremely weird rut year.  We saw some action early, but mostly herd bucks (little guys).  Never did see the big push of mature bucks being dumb like we usually do.  I ended up taking a 3x3 that was bedding with a small forkie at the tail end of late archery, no rut activity at all.  I know of one taken the day before that was less than a mile away and full blown rut

[Jpmiller]

I can’t see them being related but out here I had a pair of white tails hanging around my camera like that. Had a doe show up at the bait while they were there and they didn’t care one bit. Smack dab in the middle of the rut.

[Birdsandfish]

The whitetail rut in part of the blues seems to just being getting going last week when I was hunting. Still a lot of does with fawns and silo does with no bucks or bucks chasing them. Seemed really odd.

[ballpark]

Similiar genetics?  Maybe brothers