Rut in Tennessee?????

[dick195252]

Does any one know about when the Rut statrts in West Tennessee?

[crazyfarmer]

it depends on the weather... 90% of the time it can start from the last week in nov and go untill the 2nd week in November. Normally Nov 6-16th are good days. The best time to be i nthe woods is the pre rut when that first doe is about ready to come in. Normally the last week of Oct. Bucks are running mad then and havent bedded a doe

but if you want to guess a safe day, Nov 6-12th are usually rut days everywhere, unless its a HOT spell and its puched back later

[vixenmaster]

down in Tipton county it was middle of Dec. i used to live around Drummonds

[Mike P]

90% of the time it can start from the last week in nov and go untill the 2nd week in November.

OK, the secret is out. Many of us have been wondering how CF has been harvesting those nice (albeit small) VA bucks. Now we know!

It seems the rut in VA lasts fifty weeks of the year!

If I were a member of any of the teams competing with Team VA in the deer contest this year I would sure be yelling foul! How is it that VA bucks start the rut the last week of November and remain in rut until the second week of November the following year? Somehow Team VA has managed to manipulate the rut to take place all year!

I think something is very very wrong and someone should look into this.

[crazyfarmer]

LOL... our deer are horney:-P

I know the rut is usually only 3-4 days tops, but it just varies in that timeframe.. pre and post rut are all I care about.. I cant get anything during the actaul rut since the big ones bedded and wont show.. but I cant blame him.. if I found a hot gal, I wouldnt leave her in the bed

2 years ago our rut didnt start untill Nov 16th.. last year it started Nov 2nd roughly

Ill still take the last week of Oct over any week

[dick195252]

Thank You for the info i will be prepared as usual

[sumner4991]

The rut here in Georgia usually runs a little behind Virginia . . .it's probably a weather related thing . . .heat of a different variety.

CF . . .I like your rut better there than in SW Va. Usually in my area of Va. the rut is active the week of Thanksgiving . . .I always thought that was the reason for all the celebration. Didn't find out different until I moved to the city. Pilgrams celebrating the harvest. . .right, I bet there were celebrating the rut.

[crazyfarmer]

Thank You for the info i will be prepared as usual

the biggest way to know is to be out there and watching the deer;) they will tell you when its time

some say the moon has an effect on it also

[Limbs and Sticks]

I think the only way to tell any more is watching the deer as cf said, I've seen things the last couple of yrs that don't measure up to what I've known my whole life. I just came out of the woods before I got on here, found a fawn no bigger than a rabbit dead of course but nothing found it yet, going back to get pics, this doe had to be bred in Feb. I found fresh scraps in Feb this yr looking for sheds, I saw bucks chasing does the first week of Oct seen a buck mounting one the second week of Oct,this was last yr. I posted about it, so I don't know any more, can't go by the moon it don't even control the tides to a degree any more, for sure there are strange things going on that can't be explained,just what I've seen.


Wes

[mikej]

LOL... our deer are horney:-P

i'd say

[dick195252]

[Esox]

I have a buddy in East Tenn and he's been a Rut most of his life......

[Jim22]

When I hunted in Benton Co. it was usually around the end of the second week in November. They had that archery only week between the muzzleloader season and gun season. I'd see lots of activity close to the end of the muzzleloader season.