Oak Duke expects bucks re-visiting old hotspots such as scrapes made in October as the rut intensifies around mid-November. Photo by Oak Duke.
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I hate moving a treestand during the hunting season. And no, it’s not the work, the sweat, or even the lost hunting time that I mind most. Sometimes re-hanging a stand right in prime time is a necessary evil for deer hunters.
When I move a treestand in season, the existential reality is that it almost always cascades a negative, disrupting effect on the local whitetails…exactly those deer that I hope to superimpose with my pins or crosshairs.
Oak Duke: When is it time to move deer stands during the season? Read More »
Early November waypoint: Settle in your stand as it’s the “Holy Grail of Deer Hunting.” The rut is here!
It’s the dark of the moon and bucks will be their feet 24-7. It’s a great window of opportunity to fill that tag with the deer of you dreams.
New York Rut Tracker: Dark of the moon Read More »
A 2023 repeat. Bucks will again be chasing and breeding does earlier than usual this year. What does that mean?
New York Outdoor News 2024 Rut Tracker: Early action Read More »
Myth or reality? Each and every whitetail archery season during October, bowhunters report a lull, or slow time when activity and deer, mainly buck sightings, drop off.
Some bowhunters even quit hunting, saying, “I’ll wait ‘til the rut.” Others second-guess themselves, thinking, “Must be doing something wrong. Just don’t see the deer now.” Others beat the pulpit in the press and on social media, proclaiming with fervor that the October Lull of legend is just another myth.
Oak Duke: The dreaded October lull; what is it? Read More »
Few marks in the deer woods trip a hunter’s trigger like a smokin’ hot buck rub. White scars in the woods.
But in the last few years, one particular type of buck rub has become my key big buck sign. No real mystery here…it’s the signpost rub. I just wish that I had focused on signpost rubs sooner in my deer-hunting career, both bow and gun.
Oak Duke: Make your own signpost rub for whitetail hunting Read More »
Over the last 50 years, great changes in technology have colored and shaded whitetail hunting. But despite these advances and regressions, our understanding of the alpha buck has only inched forward.
He’s still a mystery!
Most wild alphas are secretive whether in the low, flat country of Mississippi to the rugged hills and mountains of New York. Wild, and I emphasize wild, older bucks are extremely difficult to study. Topping the list of difficulties would be their inherent shyness, intelligence, incredible senses, and breadth of range.
Oak Duke: What do we really know about the mysterious alpha white-tailed buck? Read More »
Now that we are in what is termed by fly-fishers as “The Middle Season” on the trout stream, long gone are those easy and timely hatches of waterborne bugs. As the trout season progresses through spring into summer, insect life (trout food) becomes ever more complex and complicated and challenging. They’re finicky eaters.
Oak Duke: You can never have too many flies for summer trout fishing Read More »
Springtime during New York’s trout season this year was unlike any year I can remember. The fishing has been great…and not so great. That is not unusual.
The winter of 2023 promised us in early March we were going to have an early and longed-for meteorological warm-up, and the famous woodchuck concurred. Snowpack, (what snowpack?) vanished early.
Oak Duke: Despite high waters, it’s been a memorable spring on New York trout streams Read More »
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