south florida deer rut
07-25-2008, 09:24 AM
#11
Spike
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Polk County, FL
Posts: 68
RE: south florida deer rut
geat post camocop. that goes to show that the rut dates are very widespread in florida. the exeption is northwest fl. in south fl i would bet that bow season and ml season would be your best bet for any "rut" activity. but dont expect to see too many bucks chasing or typical rut activity. with no significant winters to deal with, the does can have offspring any month of the year. also with the imbalanced buck/doe ratio, the bucks cant tend all the does within a certain time period. consequently the does keep coming into estrous until they are bread.
good luck
brian
good luck
brian
07-25-2008, 12:06 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Lake County, Florida
Posts: 3,313
RE: south florida deer rut
ORIGINAL: bdhuntin
geat post camocop. that goes to show that the rut dates are very widespread in florida. the exeption is northwest fl. in south fl i would bet that bow season and ml season would be your best bet for any "rut" activity. but dont expect to see too many bucks chasing or typical rut activity. with no significant winters to deal with, the does can have offspring any month of the year. also with the imbalanced buck/doe ratio, the bucks cant tend all the does within a certain time period. consequently the does keep coming into estrous until they are bread.
good luck
brian
geat post camocop. that goes to show that the rut dates are very widespread in florida. the exeption is northwest fl. in south fl i would bet that bow season and ml season would be your best bet for any "rut" activity. but dont expect to see too many bucks chasing or typical rut activity. with no significant winters to deal with, the does can have offspring any month of the year. also with the imbalanced buck/doe ratio, the bucks cant tend all the does within a certain time period. consequently the does keep coming into estrous until they are bread.
good luck
brian
07-27-2008, 10:34 AM
#13
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: south florida
Posts: 291
RE: south florida deer rut
thanks everyone for the information. Have been hunting hogs at my buddies place for a while. Have seen a few nice bucks out there with quite a few does he will let us take either. I would love to see one of us take one of those big bucks. Good luck to you all this season. Will keep posting on how we do. Thanks Jerry
08-02-2008, 08:11 AM
#14
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 6
RE: south florida deer rut
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08-02-2008, 08:24 AM
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: south florida deer rut
ORIGINAL: SwampPanther
Re: Florida 2004 (G Whittington)2:19 PM 10/21/2004
In southern Highlands county the Bucks were chasing does in late July and early August. I also saw a nice buck chasing two does on the weekend of Sept. 11th this year. We were seeing spotted fawns on the ground last year in January and February. We shot a couple of does last year in late December (we had doe tags) that were highly bred, with pretty much fully developed fetuses in them. That would tell me that a lot of our does were bred in late July or early August.
