While some deer species, like red deer, are known for loud vocalizations during the rut, white-tailed deer are less vocal, and the term more broadly refers to the period of heightened mating activity.

We break down the hottest weeks, days, and hours of the rut based on moon phase, deer breeding data, and years of field experience.

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs ...

The rut, or what was called the Running Time of the Whitetail, varies by up to three weeks, according to my Excel spreadsheet of past ruts that I have been adding to for half a century, populating ...

Buck grunts may signal deer season rut Most hunters reported few deer moving early in Minnesota deer season.

That time of year that many deer hunters wait and dream about all year. The peak of the whitetail pre-rut. But it has two sides. On the one hand, bucks are finally on their feet during the daytime ...

The breeding season for deer, commonly referred to as the rut, is getting underway in Pennsylvania and experts explain how it impacts deer movement.