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Originally Posted by cgoods17
the best way to know when the rut is on is to be in the woods and see it first hand, not from what the paper says...
the more time spent in a tree, the better your chances are of course.
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I took that approach for a few years then shifted to a "less is more" hunting approach that was much more successful.
It turned out the land we were hunting was small and deer were sensitive to the all the scent we would leave behind and become nocturnal, avoiding our hunting property in the day time when our activity levels rose.
We learned to wait for ideal conditions, hunt the wind, and not push too hard, letting things settle down for a while between hunts. Planning ingress and egress for stand hunting to reduce crossing of deer trails helped too.