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Whatever your beliefs, keep this date in mind while planning your hunts, but also be aware that other factors like weather, deer sex ratios and human hunting pressure can also effect the daytime rutting activity observed from region to region (and even farm to farm).While some hunters swear by the reliability of The Rutting Moon at predicting deer behavior, others think it is a sharp drop in temperature that finally triggers peak breeding.Best Communication Tactics: During this pre-rut you may start to see the first signs of rutting activity as a small percent (around 10%) of does come into estrus around the pre-rut moon, but that typically drops off quickly.Older does sometimes breed several weeks ahead of other does and bucks may start seeking them out at this time.They may, however start aggressively rubbing trees to vent their pent-up energy and show off their self-perceived dominance to other bucks.If you find one of these rubs during the late pre-rut, hunt it as soon as possible.Moon phase theorists predict an intense, "syncrhonized" rut this year - meaning that doe estrogen levels peak, buck testosterone levels peak and the rutting moon all occur near November 1st.
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Click here to set up your free online hunting journal now. Moon Phase Theories: Before we discuss rutting activity dates and tactics, let's briefly discuss the two most-popular theories for determining the dates.
Either way, active rutting behavior will be close at hand and November 14th is a day you'll want to be off work and on stand.
