Oak Duke: Notes from a two-buck season in New York
Four-lane highway daily drives up to Rochester, here in Western New York, showed the carnage of deer and vehicles ramping up, piling up. No doubt, the rut was ramping up.
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Four-lane highway daily drives up to Rochester, here in Western New York, showed the carnage of deer and vehicles ramping up, piling up. No doubt, the rut was ramping up.
With tag soup looming as soup de jour, a few hints and thought processes that have worked to put a late season deer on the ground for me.
As of Nov. 28, 245 total wild deer have tested positive for CWD. The DNR has tested more than 130,000 deer since 2002.
The whitetail rut timeline. Now, mid-November and it’s Helter-skelter as bucks are in different behavior modes.
This is the time of the scrape hunter and the rattler. Focus stands near active perennial scrapes. Seek freshest rubs, white tree scars, shavings on the ground.