I'm not too enthused by the forecast. We have about a week of hot windy weather coming. I was hoping to wear long pants during the rut this year. Not sure exactly when the rut will ramp up, but I do see that the predictions are for around November 4 for our friends in Oklahoma.
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I have found that the later you wait, the harder it is to get a shot. In fact, by the end of November I seldom see a buck and I live right in the middle of them. Once the guns starts booming they seem to go nocturnal.
It seems that the feeders are being mostly utilized by the birds and raccoons at the moment. It would be nice to see a deer show up some time with in a half hour of a feeder spinning. We need a hard freeze to kill off all the green feed. Not much chance of that with all the high eighties being predicted in the forecast.
My cattle are getting fat, though.
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I'd be playing the wind and getting as close to the bedding areas as possible. Most of the chasing will more than likely be at night if they are chasing in the next week. But if you are on the edge of bedding on a high traffic trail you may have a doe come out to grab a bite of acorns or something close and the bucks aren't going to be far behind them if they are in heat. Or sitting fairly close to bedding and a water source could produce especially if they are chasing all night, and it's warm during the day. Just my thought process.
I'll be making a 5 day, hopefully, rut trip starting on 11/11 and making all day sits. I see the temp starts to drop right before that, so I'm hoping that temp trend continues to drop.
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I don't have acorns to worry about here. The fawns are coming into the feeders and the mommas are hanging around close to watch them. The bucks come to check out the mommas but don't come close to the blind. I probably will sit on a trail or still hunt during the cool of the day and sit in a blind in the evening. We are killing so many rattlesnakes this year that I don't want to be walking around when it is ninety degrees outside.
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