5 Things Old Hunters Do in the Rut That Put Big Bucks in Front of Them (Most Hunters Don't)

📘 The Wendell's Deer Book: Dad's calendar, the two weeks, and the chapter "Ten to Two" → https://wendellcoffey.com/deer The old men stayed on the stand through dinner, and it wasn't superstition. For about two weeks a year, the collars say they were right. The five: 5. Forget the moon and the fronts. Hunt the calendar. 4. Rest your best stand through October. A buck stays off a hunted stand for about three days. 3. At noon, move off the field and into the cover between the beds. 2. Find your own week: count back 200 days from the first spotted fawn, and call your state's deer biologist. 1. In the week before your peak and the week after it, take dinner up with you and don't come down at nine. If you have a heart condition or take blood pressure pills, ask your doctor before a long cold sit. From the book: Part Three, chapter 3.10 "The Rut, Week by Week" and chapter 3.11 "Ten to Two".