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5 Signs The Whitetail Rut Is Beginning

Whitetail Habitat Solutions

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Has the rut begun? When it does, here are the top 5 signs that a wise old buck is ready!

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20 Comments

@coreycatch6268 3 years ago

Terrible time for a warm up in Michigan later this week

@5bucksoutdoors899 3 years ago

I have a few stands along a Railroad track and once the rut starts they are everywhere along the tracks scent checking. Can't wait for the end of October.

@philmiller2010 3 years ago (edited)

Remember Jeff
If 10% of your audience is not saying you are over priced… you are underpriced. Thanks for all you do for the hunting community.

@srgtkankles 3 years ago

Gosh everytime I want to ask a question, Jeff already answers it by end of Video!!
Thanks again!

@russellzimara340 1 year ago

Your passion for the sport and more importantly for the animals is refreshing. I wish all hunters were like you and not just one weekend a year warriors that will take 13 shots to drop a frickin doe.

@neabowhunters8107 3 years ago

Been watching all of your videos and Thursday I shot my target buck got the first time in 5 years. I cought him on the way to bed in the morning on a cold front day. He is a very nice deer for Arkansas. Thanks for all the videos.

@justinsidervag8008 3 years ago

Moving horizontal kind of explains why the trails that seem dead early in the season , suddenly begin to show use .
I set up in areas where I've done well in the past . Never really paid much attention. Figured it's just the " lull " when I don't see any .

This year I looked up my tag history on states web site . Majority of my tags have been filled from 10 / 28 to Thanksgiving.

@michellemarie0023 3 years ago

You’re my favorite person here on YouTube !

@FenwayRick 3 years ago

The most frustrating thing on the Eastern Shore is the weather. It was cold last week, but looking at the next 10 day forecast the weather is not going to be great. It seems like that’s always the case here.

@Trackemdown555 3 years ago

Full swing in South Carolina now

@toddhuff6007 3 years ago

I suggest you guys call your new podcast
“The bottom line”
Hats, T-shirts etc…

@take2wheels556 3 years ago (edited)

Had a tremendous buck on camera several times,now I haven't seen him in any photos.The 600 acres behind me were not being hunted and sold to a neighbor who has been logging some of the property. The Coyotes hunt all night long around here.Maybe the Coyotes have gotten him nobody on our Rd has harvested him because he's totally unique.I had 6 does eating nuts under my stand for about 30 minutes yesterday I'm not high up just camo that matches my surrounding and completely scent free.I have never been busted yet.No ground scrapes or rubbing yet.I live in SW KY.Always a North wind blowing in my face when I enter my stand.

@wiscokid9890 3 years ago

About ten years ago is when I started to notice when the pre rut started on our property. It is the best time to be hunting on our little piece. October 19- November 1. Man it's awesome and some years its okay. When our does come in to estrus this year im hoping for nice cool mornings. With NNW, WNW or N winds. I do love a good East wind too. Anything other than the ordinary West or southwest winds. Fingers crossed for a good year!

@Trackemdown555 3 years ago

Running creeks here in sc

@theom8741 3 years ago

Meant to comment yesterday. In northern New York the rut has started a tiny bit early, we’re in muzzleloading season, 10/16 in the morning a small buck chased a doe into the brush 10 yards under my stand. That evening an 8pt deer pushed about 5 doe in front of me. I have a small property and the unwritten rule of the neighborhood is nothing under 8pt. He wasn’t a prize but he was meat in the freezer. Hoping for the prize (I’ve seen him on my cameras) to show up in rifle season next week!

@Trackemdown555 3 years ago

Bucks are changing does going slap Crazy

@paulkeehr9268 3 years ago

Don’t worry about some sour person who criticizes you for what you EARN. You are worth what the market will bare. Thanks for the ton of free advice. It’s helped us up our game.

@chrisboyd1408 3 years ago

I am going to open a can o' worms here. In Southern Indiana we harvested a trophy buck late this afternoon with a large swollen neck over cut corn. I passed up three shots on him last year due to no clean shot. This year his antlers have decreased, but my 10 year old grandson was at my side so I took him as a memory builder. He is the third buck I have taken with a Raven crossbow over 75 yards away in an open field. We sight this bow in at 100 yards and have taken seven deer with it. Some hunters may scoof at these shoots but the arrow penetrated over six inches as I had to remove the arrow and Rage broad head from the heart. Nonetheless, great family memories.