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 * **whitetail rut charictorization**
 * **by james**
 * variable tone grunt calls have elimanitated the need for carrying multiple calls around your neck
 * public land is a good bet during the waning rut. odds are alll of the other hunters have given up for anouther year and you will have it all to your self.
 * lots of big bucks have fallen during the rut period.
 * weather you use a computer or a jurnal, keep notes on what you see during the rut and the dates when things are happining. this information will prove very valuable in later seasons.
 * when the chase phase kicks in, you will know it. overnight, tracks will show up everywhere.
 * during the chase phase, everybuck in the woods healthy enough to breed is on the prowl searching for a hot doe.
 * a mature buck may make hundreds of scrapes in his lifetime
 * setting
 * big bucks like cool weather and nice big open woods for breeding grounds
 * bucks usually go for the more mature does in the rut
 * a-little breeze against your back will help to avoid getting smelled by the deer
 * if you put doe sent around your stant it will atract bucks
 * plot line
 * you have to get up early in the morning to get to your stand because deer ussally arnt moveing around
 * as you walk to the stank you have to walk slow and silent so you wont scare any deer out of the area
 * you have to sit for a long time with very little movement and make no sound because deer have really good hearing
 * now here comes a buck and he is creeping through the woods and looking around for danger
 * heres your chance to shoot... you pull the gun up real slow and quiet... put the cross heirs on his front sholder and squeez the triger... BANG!!
 * the deer bolts away to get to safty, but when you climbdown the treestand... you see that you hit him good because you see that theres a solid blood trail where he ran off
 * now all you have to do is follow the blood trail and their he is... about 100 yards away from where you shot... a 12 point buck is the prize
 * theme
 * twigs snapping in my face
 * stepping in pot holes and spraining my ancle
 * falling in a mud hole

explanation - it occurs in the fall in the woods hunting as a loosely knit group
 * ** setting by luke **
 * just need some cold weather to jump-start them bucks
 * when they are in the woods are nearly always on top
 * November full moon tends to have a definite pull on not so much the timing
 * ** characterization **
 * sitting in my tree stand in the dark waiting impatiently
 * like many other hunters
 * i do a lot of calling and rattling
 * yes i hunted all day every day
 * i travel to other states to hunt
 * i have written records of 30 years
 * ** theme **
 * i would be remiss if i were to write a book on hunting the whitetail rut and not include this information
 * when bowhunting over a decoy
 * i know a number of very goog hunters

jamesandluke