We didn't notice any rut activity during our deer season, looking hard in places that normally show signs of the rut. We believed at the time, and I still believe it, that the drought pushed the rut back two months. Then the deer season closes and some of us go out to the lease to do end-of-season maintenance and find plenty of rut activity happening at the end of January.
We had gotten rain in January. It looks like the rut is late this year and the fawns will be late hitting the ground.
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