NE WA White Tails are Rutting Hard

[BAR C3]

This is the first year I have rifle hunted in years. Where I live is permit only and I wanted to stay close to home this year. So I got drew on the Palouse tag. I bow hunt for the rut! When I rifle hunted before, it always got going the last few days of the season. Exactly what is going to happen in this area.
On Sunday, Rick Landers wrote a piece on the Whitetail rut in the Spokesman Review. Exactly as I thought, the peak is normally the 23rd of the month in Washington. Funny that the game department changed the bow season after the 23rd for this reason. The same goes for elk season. The bulls start peaking around the 23rd-25th of September. 
Thats why I love Montana. Only I will have to work harder to go with the prices for out of staters going from $643 to $897 

[Ridgeratt]

Spent the entire elk season in unit 105 and can say I didn't see enough whitetails to count on both hands and never saw a set of horns!

[huntnnw]

pre rut... nothing rutting hard. The young one like the deer posted are the first to get out and get dumb.. lots of scrapes beging to show.. will be getting good soon

[RoyBoy]

i hunt modern fire arm for deer in colville wa on private land and there always rutting when im there.

[NWBREW]

pre rut... nothing rutting hard. The young one like the deer posted are the first to get out and get dumb.. lots of scrapes beging to show.. will be getting good soon

My thoughts exactly. Don't get me wrong.....that is a fine buck. Where i hunt those are the first ones to go....the bigger ones come out a little later. For rifle.....the last three days are the days to be watching.

[huntnnw]

the last 3 days of rifle and the week of thanksgiving are "IT" 

[archery288]

From past experience Thanksgiving week is usually the best week to hunt them!  Seems to be the peak of the rut is between the 20th - 25th... Our trail cameras start picking up bigger bucks every year around the 15th and everyday after the 15th it seems our odds increase of seeing a more mature deer through thanksgiving week.

[CAMPMEAT]

This is what I have to put up with, day in, day out !!!

[Gutpile]

Thats a photoshop. 

[CAMPMEAT]

Thats a photoshop. 

How'd you guess !!!!!

[PolarBear]

Just got a report from my buddy in Republic.  The only thing rutting hard over there is him.  He has seen a couple of dink bucks nose around some does but nothing is happening other than them being chased off or kicked by the does.

[huntnnw]

Talked with my Dad today, hes up in Ferry day one, 3" of snow saw 1 deer it was a 150" class whitey, rattled up,no shot opportunity

[RidgeRunner_07]

Every year I keep hearing how the Rut gets earlier and earlier for NE washington's Whiteys....Hell any earlier and we'll be seeing them chase does in Aug. Ya you'll catch a few towards the end of late rifle but the most rut action I see here is around the tail end of this month on into that first week of December.

[PolarBear]

It's because of "global warming"!  They are all confused with the earth's changing climate so they don't know when they are supposed to breed.   

[Mr T]

Spent the entire elk season in unit 105 and can say I didn't see enough whitetails to count on both hands and never saw a set of horns!

Hey Ridgeratt, where were you at in unit 105?  I am headed back up there in about 2 weeks..