The rut is the exact same time in your area every year. Figure out when the rut happens in your area and it will never change for you. If you believe it does change then you are pressuring deer and not seeing the signs like others around you are. Be consistent and hunt cold fronts/after a rain/and reductions from high wind speeds 😁

The moon has nothing to do with the timing of the rut! It's the photo period, or the amount of darkness that triggers the rut and that doesn't change much if at all. First 10 days of November are always the best time to hunt here in the northeast with Nov 5th being a great day to be out there. Charlie as well as deer and deer hunting magazine have been selling these moon calendars for years making money off of fiction.

Just hunt whenever you can hunt. The first week of November is always a good bet. Especially if the weather is right.

It’s the amount of day light that sets it off, my area of Ohio, about a week after day light savings time begins Been that way for me 25 yrs Best Regards

It's amazing when you hear about the rut starts after the second full moon and then scientists say it occurs every year at the same time .You also hear about big bucks not moving in the heat then when you decide not to hunt and do other things you see them on the move chasing does lol.I say get out and hunt if you want because all these experts differ so much ...

I heard the rut was cancelled this year due to covid.

All I know for sure is that I kill 90% of my bucks between Nov 3rd and 10th every year. That window is always a sweet spot for me.

It’s been scientifically demonstrated that the moon doesn’t affect rut timing…..and that rut timing doesn’t change year to year.

Nice to here about the rut to let you no its a special time to deer hunt

Great Video.

I had a real smart man who raised deer tell me that the rutting moon is bogus. It's the shortening of daylight that turns on the breeding process for doe's. Plus the maturity level plays a part, some younger does for yearlings will come into heat as late as January/Feb. There is no second rut either, just delayed responses on does depending on age. He told me if a doe comes into heat, she'll get bred either by a young or mature buck, she won't be missed.

Isn’t the second full moon after he fall equinox mid November? The full moon in sept. Was several several days prior to the equinox

Cold frosty mornings November 7th-15th no fancy stuff about this

The autumn equinox is Sep 22nd. The 20th of September is a full moon. That being said the second full moon is November 19th. How does your sweet spot correlate with that? Just being inquisitive. Thanks and be safe.

Fawns have to be born at a certain time to survive so it’s the same every year.

Halloween weekend every year is the rut in Wisconsin same time every year! The temp will play what time of day 50 degrees and above the will run only at night. I do not believe the moon has anything to do with date times maybe night or day times

An a full moon that makes it allmost like day time at night plus if there's snow u can read a newspaper at midnight

It’s November 9th in Central/southern New England. Haven’t seen any major rut sign yet…

Buck to does ratio,,in Arkansas we have seen chases into late feb, reason being you have fawns with spots 1st of oct,,,explain that

I think you'll find a lot of nighttime movement during a full moon and some pretty lackluster daytime movement, but the rut is still happening you're just not seeing it.

Sure enjoy your information.

Pretty sure the rut needs to happen in the same window every year, due to fawn mortality. If not they have no chance of survival. Just my opinion 🤷

I've noticed nothing was happening in my hunt it's more foggy last 20 yrs

If you want to hunt why not hunt I like being out there , use a trail camera for ambush, but where I live in the Appalachian mt of w, va and deer are in the back yard.

I'm learning now but that's not what the hunting beast says. Haha. This year its not so defined as equinox is a day after the September full moon. Judging by the sweet spot a full moon that close still counts. High quality video.

Moon might affect movement but has zero to do with the timing.

Absolutely not true!! Scientist has proved that does go into heat exactly same time every year!!

What about south of thstcline

Why do the oldest does birth a month before others, short window of oldest does breed in October by the most healthy bucks ?

2nd rut? Can be great

For those 10 days what about rifle hunters here in Vermont it doesn’t start that early so does that mean I’m fucked? And also when and why is it better to hunt fields vs woods and vise versa woods vs fields

must be nice to hunt with a 3k crossbow. wish i could afford some thing like that

100% bull crap. I can 100% say with out a dout there is a doe in my area that breeds on a lawn 2 drives down from my archery club between the 22nd and 26th of october EVERY YEAR for the last 4 years (Im less then .2 miles from my archery club takes me under 2 minutes to get from my drive way to my clubs drive way around the corner). Thats where she likes to be when she breeds cause thats where she feels safe and the home owner have video of it from each year. Moon has 0 (zero) to do with the rut. It has EVERYTHING to do with the Does in the area and when they start their estress cycles. That is determined by when they are born. I cant believe that any company would push this crap nowadays

RIP Charlie

First again

rut is the same time of the year, every year forget moon phases

You lost me at the moon…the rut is the same time every year in your area

You anti cross bowers are upset because you have competition for the deer.

A paper plate?!?! Hopefully a 4" plate

Crossbows can shoot 50 yards cause it has a scope and a trigger. I don't know how it is in most states but I live in Maine and it was always crossbows hunt during rifle season, 3-4 years ago they changed it and crossbows hunt during archery season. Here it's basically October is archery and November is rifles and 2 weeks in December for muzzleloader. And I'm sure they did it to get more people into archery, but that is what I enjoyed about archery compared to rifle season, alot less people, alot less pressure, wear camo as apposed to bright orange, and of course I can see for some people a regular bow, compound, long, recurve, and on, aren't an option, being too small, elderly, disability, and on, but I know so many guys that never bow hunted, never wanted to how hunt and when the law changed , they took the course bought a crossbow and go tramping through the woods now like they would with a gun. Last sat had a guy right under my stand till I finally whistle at him, mind you it's my family private land that is posted quite well. Just in my opinion, crossbows have a scope and a trigger, new ones don't even have to pull back yourself, just a crank, they should be used during rifle season, unless you can't use a regular bow due to disability.

Yeah I heard the moon phase, turned off the video.

If your a good hunter control scent, watch the wind, kill a deer never cared about moon phase.rut pretty much the same every year in missouri.

MID DEC RUT IN THE SOUTH HAHA WHAT??

This whole Video I basically false

Wouldn't be caught shooting that cross gun I meant bow during archery season unless I was handicapped. That's not a bow it's a gun! Yes I'm a proud hater.

Put the crossbow down and grab a Bow-A crossbow is a gun and no one wants to hear about it

Who cares as long as your in the woods..

This is bs.

It kinda sucks that people like you have taken away - from everyone - the choice of a bit less crowded deer hunting season (archery) in favor of a pseudo gun season (in terms of numbers of hunters) to go along with regular gun seasons. Of course archery seasons have always been concurrent with small game, waterfowl, pheasant, and other seasons. But doubling or tripling or whatever the number of "bowhunters" (by allowing crossbows for all) kinda screws up archery seasons, especially for those hunting public land. I know you guys don't care...won't waste any more time here. Carry on! Hey, maybe you can get "airbows" legalized for archery seasons too! (Shouldn't be too much of a leap, in your mind, to convince yourself that you're still "bowhunting") LOL