I agree with the “getting out after work even for 45 minutes”! I did that last year, October 27th, sat for 1 hour after I got off work at 4, and shot a 150” 10 and I’d never seen him before
I hunt the rut hard in Wisconsin, I save up my time away from the family to get out during the best time of the year. I tend to hunt the rut so hard that I become physically exhausted. In the past couple of seasons, I have bounced from state land to private land trying to hunt the best sign/activity which leads to my exhaustion. I tell myself every year, that I should just sleep in some days and get out there mid-morning, a couple hours after daylight and sit the entire day. It never fails though, I still get up, half asleep and start driving out to the property I'm hunting that morning at 430 AM. One of these years I'll listen to my body!
Got home at 430 PM this year. Had my stuff in garage. Threw it on and got into stand at 445 PM. 4 does came through at 455 PM. Monster 8 came in right behind them. Stayed at 60 yards no shot. They disappeared and I used grunt and hit can call once. 10 minutes later he came on a line within 35 yards into my shooting lane. Smoked him. He’s a 140+ class deer, 23 inch spread. Never seen him before on the property or on my cameras. Best deer of my life. Hunt when you can in the RUT. It does work!
I am a paraplegic hunter here in Maine. (Maine North Woods Hunter) . I believe there are instances that will happen in different regions of the country and each state that play major roles in this thought process. In Maine, we have low deer densities and tons of thick woods to hunt them in. Being a paraplegic, I have to do a lot of my hunting before the season begins. I have to search for places like you described and then hope that they produce during the season. I would have had a hard time deciding to go to another location if I had put the work in and seen the sign. In the RUT, the deer honestly can be anywhere, so being patient is something that takes time and practice. In Maine, we also get a lot of snow, and if that happens early in the season, the deer start to move closer to their wintering yards. This will also throw a wrench into the plan as well. One of the many reasons I love hunting deer is that you are always changing plans and trying to figure out what is happening. With Weather, seasonal food, cover, hunting pressure, and the RUT, there are so many constant factors constantly changing it is very hard to try to pin an animal down into a certain spot. It sure is fun trying, though. God Bless, and Good Hunting to you!
I agree 100% move. I got a decent 8 point last year in a state park on the second day of season. I was walking at the time. I always move when I'm hunting.
I’ve done the move thing to different stands and still hunting in the right weather and sitting all day and shot bucks in every situation. You need to understand your location 😂situation. It took me a long time to understand that too. Thanks!!! I’m an old hunter too
In the Northeast I go by Nov 7th as the peak of seek and chase, +/- five days. If you have limited hunting time available, out of those 10 days, pick the best weather and wind for your stand location. Coldest temperature, low wind, or pressure drops from incoming weather changes and fronts. Warm temps will really slow them down, but when the temp drops again they will get active.
I'm soooooo lucky to have finally found where my deer want to be. I've harvested a fine wall hanger every year for 4 years in a row. Now I'm just trying to let them alone and harvest doe and see just how big they can get. This season has been incredible so far. The sheer amount of young bucks and bucks that I normally would harvest is astounding. The trick is being able to get in and out of your blind without disturbing the deer on your food plot. I can get in my blind before daylight and can glass the silhouettes of deer on my plot with my binoculars or back out late morning with deer still on the plot. It makes deer hunting/watching very enjoyable and very predictable on my 1000-acre timberland lease along an un damed and untamed river. Our rut has always been around the Thanksgiving holiday thru Christmas in the south.
I am 70 and in a club where I usually kill more and bigger deer than the others. When asked how do you do it I say you don't kill many in the camp and I tell them to look where other people routinely go and go somewhere else. Another tip is that if a hot doe comes by with a buck you don't get a chance to shoot or is too small just sit still. Her hot trail she left often another buck will come along later trailing her. Deer can be anywhere but probably 90% use the same trails or travel corridors. Learn where these trails and paths are and spend your time hunting them. Just because a stand looks good to you it might not be in an area where deer regularly use.
Glad.to hear that rut move recommendation,.im always so afraid to hang that stamd in early November, my brother says get in there as well, this year i won't be holding back from my sanctuary timber if needed,.i have been passing 2 and 3 years for to long holding out for 4 and 5.
I hunt the middle of Wisconsin. On 10/30/24 it was 80 degrees with 30mph wind gusts and a big 10 pointer came by at 2:30pm. Couldn't believe it, but he was scent checking the local does.
I have narrowed the time every season the does around my hunting spot goes into heat and only hunt those two weeks every season and every season so far I have harvested nice bucks that I never seen before on camera..The does are the best buck bait...And I also stopped shooting younger bucks 5 years ago and the last two seasons I shot 2 five year old bucks..I only hunt about about 10 to acre holler that borders thickett.
I went hunting this past Sunday around 4pm rushed to the blind and forgot my magazine so I rushed back to get it from my truck and on the way back to my blind I saw a buck and spooked him, I sprayed some “doe p” and 20mins later he came back plus another buck and about 5 does
Yeah, I agree. If the deer aren't there or you aren't seeing rut action, you gotta move in. Sometimes you have small properties, and you can't move at all, and that's always a bummer. But if the deer arnt there you gotta move. I fully agree with this video. Look for sign and move in on em.
My rut vacation is usually November 1-15, and for those two weeks, I hunt from dark til dark. I only get down for an hour to stretch my legs and run some fresh scent. Most of my buck over 130” were killed before 9am, but my 3 biggest, and my only 3 over 150” were all killed between 12-3 pm. Mid day cruisers. I don’t even hunt in October, or rifle. I only hunt those two weeks, and I hunt them hard. It’s lead to success nearly every year since I started archery hunting in 2003. And I don’t shoot little 2.5 year old 8 pointers. Mature buck only for this guy. I don’t shoot doe or hunt any other animals. My whole focus for the year is on one mature buck, and those two weeks.
I just had to move today here in Michigan. I have a nice spot in the back of my property where I've killed two nice eight points but the deer just are not coming through. I moved to the front of my property and saw two doe's tonight.
Saturday a hunter in Pa that I ran into dragging a doe that he just shot with a muzzleloader said that a huge buck was chasing the doe. October 18 the rut has started in this spot. I noticed scrapes and rubs that were not there the day before,
I hunt 15 acres on my own land all white oak timber. I only have 5 resident does and young bucks. But come the rut I see bucks that I've never seen before because sooner or later these does are gonna be hot.
We hunt at different times but seems like on public land the deer that come out between 10-1 seem to be less cautious about other hunters. Also agree if it’s rut and you’re not seeing anything then get down and relocate because you could only be just slightly away from the “action!”
Most hunters will overdo their scouting and actually push a nice buck from the area. I stay out of their living room and try to figure out where and when they may step out.
Pretty sure I would rather hunt 10-2 than any other time during the rut. 10-2, then 2-close, then open-10 has been consistently my best activity over the years.
I tend to get in there really early…. Before dawn… I can sit till noon or so…. Most of the time movement will be a bit later in the morning for sure. Definitely have an early cruising buck come through without shooting light. It just seems the bucks come around after the does get settled…. Then they flush/chase them , search etc.. fun stuff. * all about entrance and exit to your stand
@@stefanosoderi4152I agree. I have been hunting since the early eighties and I can count on one hand the decent bucks I have encountered so called 10-2. Imo every single guy that says that hunts dawn and dusk lol. I have never seen a single hunter show up at 10 and bug out at two despite all the guys claiming that is their preference lol. Like someone else commented just say you prefer hunting all daylight hours…
Ol’ Danker just like me is one cupped palm ear slap away from brain damage and just one less and we’d probably both be in the pen lmao. It’s that time (Oct 29th) get in there bad get with it now!!!
When you all day sit your scent literally permeates everything around you. Nothing burns out a spot quicker than an all day sit especially on a calm day. Guys mistake occasional success as evidence of doing the right thing. Many times guys are successful in spite of their misguided tactics…
Think about a dog in heat. She’s in heat for about 10 days but only ovulates for 2 or 3 days that’s when she’ll stand. The rest of the time the male is constantly trying but just ends up getting his butt kicked.
Crazy how much hype and drama hunters create, take something that is 99% shithouse luck into something that requires a PHD to kill a buck in the rut when 99% of “hunters” actually hunt because the other times are to slow….aka harder!
If I had the properties to hunt that you do, my taxidermist couldn't accept other people's deer because mine would be a full-time job.An expert you're not.Lucky you are.
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I agree with the “getting out after work even for 45 minutes”! I did that last year, October 27th, sat for 1 hour after I got off work at 4, and shot a 150” 10 and I’d never seen him before
I hunt the rut hard in Wisconsin, I save up my time away from the family to get out during the best time of the year. I tend to hunt the rut so hard that I become physically exhausted. In the past couple of seasons, I have bounced from state land to private land trying to hunt the best sign/activity which leads to my exhaustion. I tell myself every year, that I should just sleep in some days and get out there mid-morning, a couple hours after daylight and sit the entire day. It never fails though, I still get up, half asleep and start driving out to the property I'm hunting that morning at 430 AM. One of these years I'll listen to my body!
I hear you, at 63 now, I'm still waiting for that year, that I'm gonna start listening to my body ! L.O.L'S !!
I'm grinding it out in Wisconsin too
@mitchvaughn5977 Not loving the weather report for the start of the rut. Is it to much to ask for low 50s?!
Everything you just explained is me currently right now. Hell ya brother.
Follow the minor and major feeding times. It will change your perspective. Just get on your stand 1 hour before they are up and feeding.
Got home at 430 PM this year. Had my stuff in garage. Threw it on and got into stand at 445 PM. 4 does came through at 455 PM. Monster 8 came in right behind them. Stayed at 60 yards no shot. They disappeared and I used grunt and hit can call once. 10 minutes later he came on a line within 35 yards into my shooting lane. Smoked him. He’s a 140+ class deer, 23 inch spread. Never seen him before on the property or on my cameras. Best deer of my life. Hunt when you can in the RUT. It does work!
Great advice. You are 100% correct.
It can go from dead quite to " balls to the walls" in seconds.
I am a paraplegic hunter here in Maine. (Maine North Woods Hunter) . I believe there are instances that will happen in different regions of the country and each state that play major roles in this thought process. In Maine, we have low deer densities and tons of thick woods to hunt them in. Being a paraplegic, I have to do a lot of my hunting before the season begins. I have to search for places like you described and then hope that they produce during the season. I would have had a hard time deciding to go to another location if I had put the work in and seen the sign. In the RUT, the deer honestly can be anywhere, so being patient is something that takes time and practice. In Maine, we also get a lot of snow, and if that happens early in the season, the deer start to move closer to their wintering yards. This will also throw a wrench into the plan as well. One of the many reasons I love hunting deer is that you are always changing plans and trying to figure out what is happening. With Weather, seasonal food, cover, hunting pressure, and the RUT, there are so many constant factors constantly changing it is very hard to try to pin an animal down into a certain spot. It sure is fun trying, though. God Bless, and Good Hunting to you!
I agree 100% move. I got a decent 8 point last year in a state park on the second day of season. I was walking at the time. I always move when I'm hunting.
I’ve done the move thing to different stands and still hunting in the right weather and sitting all day and shot bucks in every situation. You need to understand your location 😂situation. It took me a long time to understand that too. Thanks!!! I’m an old hunter too
In the Northeast I go by Nov 7th as the peak of seek and chase, +/- five days. If you have limited hunting time available, out of those 10 days, pick the best weather and wind for your stand location. Coldest temperature, low wind, or pressure drops from incoming weather changes and fronts. Warm temps will really slow them down, but when the temp drops again they will get active.
Such a classy guy . Favorite dude in the hunting industry
I'm soooooo lucky to have finally found where my deer want to be. I've harvested a fine wall hanger every year for 4 years in a row. Now I'm just trying to let them alone and harvest doe and see just how big they can get. This season has been incredible so far. The sheer amount of young bucks and bucks that I normally would harvest is astounding. The trick is being able to get in and out of your blind without disturbing the deer on your food plot. I can get in my blind before daylight and can glass the silhouettes of deer on my plot with my binoculars or back out late morning with deer still on the plot. It makes deer hunting/watching very enjoyable and very predictable on my 1000-acre timberland lease along an un damed and untamed river. Our rut has always been around the Thanksgiving holiday thru Christmas in the south.
Great video. One of the best I’ve seen. You aren’t gonna get them if you aren’t there!!
Great advice! Thank you sir.
I am 70 and in a club where I usually kill more and bigger deer than the others. When asked how do you do it I say you don't kill many in the camp and I tell them to look where other people routinely go and go somewhere else. Another tip is that if a hot doe comes by with a buck you don't get a chance to shoot or is too small just sit still. Her hot trail she left often another buck will come along later trailing her. Deer can be anywhere but probably 90% use the same trails or travel corridors. Learn where these trails and paths are and spend your time hunting them. Just because a stand looks good to you it might not be in an area where deer regularly use.
Hunt does to hunt bucks during the rut!
Glad.to hear that rut move recommendation,.im always so afraid to hang that stamd in early November, my brother says get in there as well, this year i won't be holding back from my sanctuary timber if needed,.i have been passing 2 and 3 years for to long holding out for 4 and 5.
I hunt the middle of Wisconsin. On 10/30/24 it was 80 degrees with 30mph wind gusts and a big 10 pointer came by at 2:30pm. Couldn't believe it, but he was scent checking the local does.
Im going in!! I've been to particular aas i can recognize and have regrets later. Im getting aggressive too! Thanks for the advice brother
Gramps just said don’t hunt all day, but hunt from light to dark except 11-1:30 😂
I have narrowed the time every season the does around my hunting spot goes into heat and only hunt those two weeks every season and every season so far I have harvested nice bucks that I never seen before on camera..The does are the best buck bait...And I also stopped shooting younger bucks 5 years ago and the last two seasons I shot 2 five year old bucks..I only hunt about about 10 to acre holler that borders thickett.
I went hunting this past Sunday around 4pm rushed to the blind and forgot my magazine so I rushed back to get it from my truck and on the way back to my blind I saw a buck and spooked him, I sprayed some “doe p” and 20mins later he came back plus another buck and about 5 does
Yeah, I agree. If the deer aren't there or you aren't seeing rut action, you gotta move in. Sometimes you have small properties, and you can't move at all, and that's always a bummer. But if the deer arnt there you gotta move. I fully agree with this video. Look for sign and move in on em.
My rut vacation is usually November 1-15, and for those two weeks, I hunt from dark til dark. I only get down for an hour to stretch my legs and run some fresh scent. Most of my buck over 130” were killed before 9am, but my 3 biggest, and my only 3 over 150” were all killed between 12-3 pm. Mid day cruisers. I don’t even hunt in October, or rifle. I only hunt those two weeks, and I hunt them hard. It’s lead to success nearly every year since I started archery hunting in 2003. And I don’t shoot little 2.5 year old 8 pointers. Mature buck only for this guy. I don’t shoot doe or hunt any other animals. My whole focus for the year is on one mature buck, and those two weeks.
Youre handicapping yourself by limiting when you hunt.
That is simply anecdotal. There are many other guys with the exact opposite experience.
@@richstafford1245 are you talking to Jim?
Ive got ADHD,it’s virtually impossible for me to sit more than 3hrs at a time,it really sucks.
@@jeremywanner4526 Theo Von said he overcame it and now tests negative for the adhd
I just had to move today here in Michigan. I have a nice spot in the back of my property where I've killed two nice eight points but the deer just are not coming through. I moved to the front of my property and saw two doe's tonight.
Thanks, you’re never too old to learn-especially in the deer hunting world👍🙏
Saturday a hunter in Pa that I ran into dragging a doe that he just shot with a muzzleloader said that a huge buck was chasing the doe. October 18 the rut has started in this spot. I noticed scrapes and rubs that were not there the day before,
I hunt 15 acres on my own land all white oak timber. I only have 5 resident does and young bucks. But come the rut I see bucks that I've never seen before because sooner or later these does are gonna be hot.
Only place I have had consistent success with mid day hunts is in the Midwest. In the south it rarely works.
So true. Wife killed a big one last year at noon. Their were 3 bucks on one hot doe.
We hunt at different times but seems like on public land the deer that come out between 10-1 seem to be less cautious about other hunters. Also agree if it’s rut and you’re not seeing anything then get down and relocate because you could only be just slightly away from the “action!”
In my experience the best time is around 9am
@@steveguse4481yup 9am and 1pm
I know a lot of places where there aren’t any deer!
Most hunters will overdo their scouting and actually push a nice buck from the area. I stay out of their living room and try to figure out where and when they may step out.
Pretty sure I would rather hunt 10-2 than any other time during the rut. 10-2, then 2-close, then open-10 has been consistently my best activity over the years.
Soooo any time of day then 😂
Killed two big bucks back to back years at 1pm. I’m always in my stand by noon during the rut
I tend to get in there really early…. Before dawn… I can sit till noon or so…. Most of the time movement will be a bit later in the morning for sure. Definitely have an early cruising buck come through without shooting light. It just seems the bucks come around after the does get settled…. Then they flush/chase them , search etc.. fun stuff. * all about entrance and exit to your stand
Been hunting 30 yrs and have tried the 10-2 only time it’s worked is when they get bumped or pushed from other hunters
@@stefanosoderi4152I agree. I have been hunting since the early eighties and I can count on one hand the decent bucks I have encountered so called 10-2. Imo every single guy that says that hunts dawn and dusk lol. I have never seen a single hunter show up at 10 and bug out at two despite all the guys claiming that is their preference lol. Like someone else commented just say you prefer hunting all daylight hours…
I have 5 trimmed trees for me to climb into at anytime. Wind and doe tell me what to do. I clean them up now in September
Slip in... slip out! No trampling around.
How do you know if you have a "hot doe" in the woods? What do we look for? tks!
Slow hunting on the ground during the rut is the way to go, keep moving and you'll find them or they'll find you
How to tell your even hunting the rut for us not so skilled guys ? Just by the sign activity ?
Ol’ Danker just like me is one cupped palm ear slap away from brain damage and just one less and we’d probably both be in the pen lmao. It’s that time (Oct 29th) get in there bad get with it now!!!
I’ve killed big bucks all time of the day. I go in at dark and leave at dark.
I agree completely.
Watching this for sure - we could write a book on this topic 😊
I’d love to sit down and talk deer over a whiskey with you!
When you all day sit your scent literally permeates everything around you. Nothing burns out a spot quicker than an all day sit especially on a calm day. Guys mistake occasional success as evidence of doing the right thing. Many times guys are successful in spite of their misguided tactics…
Im a couch hunter😊
😢Oct hot I n louisiana deer season nowsickof 2years drought Foo d plot die no water holes on property iam in arut
Think about a dog in heat. She’s in heat for about 10 days but only ovulates for 2 or 3 days that’s when she’ll stand. The rest of the time the male is constantly trying but just ends up getting his butt kicked.
Rut- hunt all day
i dont like walking around in the woods leaving my sent
Walk in circles then squares. Jk good info
Crazy how much hype and drama hunters create, take something that is 99% shithouse luck into something that requires a PHD to kill a buck in the rut when 99% of “hunters” actually hunt because the other times are to slow….aka harder!
Running dogs brings the bucks out
How do I can go find "that hot doe"? I certainly can't smell her. I guess I'm confused here.
If I had the properties to hunt that you do, my taxidermist couldn't accept other people's deer because mine would be a full-time job.An expert you're not.Lucky you are.
These clips are 6-7 minutes of anything other than what the title says. Literally zero productive advice in any of these stupid videos
Maybe you need to turn the sound on.
If your at a ball game during the rut…..😂😂
Is REBA your wife? Her husband and you sure favor.
Everything changes use sent to your advantage