St. Francisville rut

I’ve hunted the river and the hills, north south, east, and west sides of the parish. The more you hunt from 12/21-1/7 the better off you are. There’s peaks and valleys during that time, but the last week of December first week of January has always been my best time

Saw my first fresh scrapes last week. It’s right on time at our place.

The scrapes started showing up week after Thanksgiving

Saw the first buck chasin on the 22nd.

Jan 3rd is when I’ve killed my best bucks and it’s usually when they were tending a doe.

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still see bucks travelling together on cam.

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I shot a 3.5yo 8pt with a 2.5yo 6pt and a 1.5yo 5pt Thursday, and he stunk… bad

6 hours earlier the same 6pt was following a doe that had no interest

Scrapes and rubs started mid-early December

Seems to be the first week of January for the primary rut and end of January early February for the secondary rut. Shot a decent 10pt two weeks ago and FIL's friend shot a wide 10pt last week. Both coming to feeders. Neither one smelled bad yet. Noticed that the scraps just opened up this week. Should be a good time to be in the woods this week. Cameras been dead the last two days until last night. Had quite a few bucks moving around

The last 6 years we have killed mature 8pts or better, between now and Jan 10 . All trailing/ chasing does . Shitty part is the majority vote by family members who don’t hunt or cared about the property decided to sell it two months ago .

Sheeeit this front and North wind gonna make it 88 and out the gate baw.

I hunted Saturday & Sunday around Cat Island. Didn’t see much. I did see a buck chasing a doe around.