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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: addicted2hunting on September 20, 2012, 06:28:50 PM

Title: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 20, 2012, 06:28:50 PM: Is the late season for archery (nov. 21 to dec. 28th in my unit) Is it pretty good hunting? Is the rut pretty much over? Im hunting blacktail. thanks fellas!
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: blacktailcody on September 20, 2012, 06:41:59 PM: Yea the rut is pretty much over. But you may be able to get a late rutting buck to come into a call.
Best of luck,
Cody
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 20, 2012, 07:35:53 PM: so the odds of them not being completely nocturnal will still be decent?
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: MLBowhunting on September 20, 2012, 07:45:11 PM: Late season plus bad weather means you can find a big one anytime of the day.
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: sebek556 on September 20, 2012, 07:48:54 PM: :yeah: the nastier the weather the longer I want to be out, and when a bad weather front is moving in they seem to know it and try to stock up great time to be in the woods, or a field's edge as it maybe
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: Armadillo on September 20, 2012, 09:05:52 PM: they go into a 2nd rut around thanksgiving... missed a shot at a good bt last year who had his nose up a doe's @ss. Pray for no frost on the ground and try to be out there as much as you can regardless of the weather being good or bad (bad is good)
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: Armadillo on September 20, 2012, 09:07:59 PM: I should have said the "unpregnated" does go into a 2nd eustrus cycle around thanksgiving which the bucks then hone in on
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 21, 2012, 03:49:31 AM: ok good to know thanks guys.
Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: bwhntr350 on September 21, 2012, 05:37:00 AM: Quote from: Armadillo on September 20, 2012, 09:07:59 PM
I should have said the "unpregnated" does go into a 2nd eustrus cycle around thanksgiving which the bucks then bone on

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Title: Re: Have a late season archery question.
Post by: Armadillo on September 21, 2012, 10:57:53 PM: :yeah: