To target mature deer during the height of the rut, you can increase your odds by focusing on these spots to stand or still hunt.

Alabama’s rut, however, tells a later story, with the rut picking up about two months after the holidays. According to Dr. Steve Ditchkoff, a wildlife professor at Auburn University, the peak ...

While there are slight variations, the continent’s two main deer species–whitetails and mule deer–rut basically the same. The breeding peak for each species is roughly late October through ...

The Best Days of the 2024 Whitetail Rut Our predictions are in. Find out which days you absolutely must be in the deer woods this season in our 20th annual Best Days of the Rut ...

Check veteran deer hunter Mike Hanback's best 101 hunting tips and tactics for hunting the whitetail rut this season.

Research by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State University discovers the truth about deer movements during rut, weather and moon phases.

The rut, or what was called the Running Time of the Whitetail, varies by up to three weeks, according to my Excel spreadsheet of past ruts that I have been adding to for half a century, populating ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks.

That time of year that many deer hunters wait and dream about all year. The peak of the whitetail pre-rut. But it has two sides. On the one hand, bucks are finally on their feet during the daytime ...

The breeding season for deer, commonly referred to as the rut, is getting underway in Pennsylvania and experts explain how it impacts deer movement.

What Does Deer Rutting Look Like? According to Dr. Ditchkoff, the rut is a time when deer behavior becomes especially noticeable, and sometimes dangerous, due to their unpredictability.