Late Season Whitetail Hunting Tips - Hunting The 2nd Rut
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Hunting deer in the late season can be tough, after the firearm opener the hunting pressure is through the roof and the deer herd is being pushed all over the neighborhood. Winter is also right around the corner, food sources are disappearing and the temps are dropping fast. It's a difficult time of year to be a whitetail, they are doing everything they can to stay alive. This can make them more difficult to hunt, but at the same time it also makes them more predictable. In this video we will discuss several late season whitetail hunting tips to help you increase your chances of accomplishing your hunting goals.
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Thank you for taking your time putting up this video, and it helps me preparation for hunting late season, again many thanks.
I really enjoyed this video,, This young dude has spot-On knowledge about these deer patterns..During the late season hunts- The bucks are gonna be where they are finding a good food source,” closer to where they gonna choose to bed, Due to hunting pressure they gonna lay low…
late season can be a great time to get out if you can put everything together
Late season is my fav time to hunt. Like you said, the mature bucks get moving in daylight 10am and 30 minutes before dark. The doe fawns won’t run away like momma did. They tend to make circles around plots and return. It’s crazy Bc my 2 doe herd vanished over the primary rut. Usually they stick around post.
Love the late season, especially if you still have those late season food sources. Brings the doe families in which will being the bucks in when those doe fawns go into heat. I never thought about the fact that those doe fawns don't really run away but you're right, they just stick around for whatever reason.
@@whitetailevolution they're young they wanna party lol the mature does are like o lordy these horny bucks knock ya up and don't come around til a year late to get some action lol
Great video!
I have used many of the strategies and tactics that have been shown and talked about on this channel. This year I experienced the pay off! A shot it’s 3 1/2 year old buck ( at least ) And that was my goal. Thank you guys for what you do. I appreciate you.
YES!! Congratulations! That is so sweet that you were able to take an old buck like that. That's not an easy task. And you're very welcome, we'll keep putting out videos :) Hearing success stories like that is a big reason to why we do it! Congrats again!
Great info as we head into the late season!
Thanks Matthew!! Hope it helps!
Its been mostly warm this whole season , with lots of food to eat still. Shot a 8 yesterday at 12:00 pm. My land has really not much pressure, only myself, lots of deer still here. They tearing up my corn feeders. Im fortunate to have my area to hunt.
So when did you make the jump from hunting to shooting grown pets
I think I need to find heavier cover. My neighbor to the south decided to clearcut the majority of his 40 acres. He's eliminated travel routes and bedding . (And is asking me where the deer have gone.)
I do have a thick 15 acres to my east with good browse. My stand is between that and a 2 acre sanctuary on my property that they like. My food plot is located there as well. I see deer every sit, but its typically a couple of doe / fawn families that live near my land. They haven't been bred, so I'm still hopeful that a buck will follow them in at some point.
continue to work on your property by making it thicker, adding food and making a maze of trails
I love hunting the whole season but the older I get the more I hate the cold weather and the way this season has gone looks like I’m going to be in it a lot
Time to invest in an insulated box blind :) You might start liking the late season again! haha
Heated vest!!! & I wear my snowboarding boots too😂 👊🏼🏹 good luck
Thanks for the links! and awesome video...AGAIN! Keep up the great work!!!
Anytime Kimberly! Thanks for watching!
Were in Michigan and the last 4 years we have caught some big boys on our cameras! 10-12 points are the big ones. We see many 8 pts & 6pts, down to a few spikes. What were seeing was mostly right at dark! 9pm and later. Just a few in the daytime. I told my sons I think we are to far from their bedding and need to move back farther in! I just put a test camera up for 4 days about half mile further in and what I have noticed is we caught deer every day on it. We even caught them the same evening we put it out! Mostly does and a split one sided one that looks to have broke off the opposite side and got a slight eye injury. They are all coming into a mock scape we set up at around 8am to 4:30pm only one pic was at 12 midnight! We grabbed the wrong scent and used doe pee intead of doe in heat which I wanted. They were all smelling the branches and scrape we made very intensely. Moving the camera seemed to help get daytime photos so Im gonna grab the doe in heat to add it to the mock scrape and set all 3 of our cameras up to see what comes in. The hardwoods here is butted up to hundreds acres of thick stuff and we are right across the trail from all this. I would bet the deer are in that thick swamp bedding for sure! Its 11/30/21 today so I will be mixing up my spray bottles with V8 Splash to spray the trees down hard as baiting is not aloud. It has worked to bring deer in for us and you can smell it for a long ways! Its all I smell while hunting. Might work as cover scent too?
Great job switching it up and finding where those deer are at this time of the season! Half the battle is determining where they are so you can set up accordingly. You guys figured that out! They are likely retreating to that thick nasty cover to escape the orange army here in Michigan. Good luck this weekend! Hope you guys nail one of the big ones!
@@whitetailevolution Thank you!
I have hunted for over 45 years and I have made all the mistakes in the book you could ever make! I have been taking my two sons and another boy without a father who I have taught all 3 how to scout, shoot their bows, set up their stands and some since they were as young as 3 in a car seat! I called our hunting trips "Boy's Camp"! We Scout, Set up, practice, stay in motels, campers, cottages ect.. After we hunt we visit the local restaurants to eat and all share what happened on our hunts. We pick up pleanty of junk food and drinks and movies for after our late hunts. The boys have all experienced many fails and I have taught them to understand that it's part of the lesson! I taught them that hunting is much more than scoring that giant buck! When they tell me they saw nothing I say so you had your eyes closed? They laughd and say no! I explained the only thing you didn't see was what you were hoping to see! You missed the forest for the trees! I have taught them to learn from their mistakes and that hunting is much, much more than that big buck that hasn't shown up...."YET"! I explained by telling them how I went without a deer for over 15 + years learning everything hunting alone as I lost my father at 16 when he was 45. I told them I'm teaching them from my mistakes so they are way ahead of me back then! I said I just never quit! Each mistake taught me how to hone in on what is needed to become a hunter! I usually spent more time getting them set up to hunt and ready than myself during these years. I didn't have much time to hunt myself most of the time LOL! At some of our Boy's Camps I was questioned as to how come I never shoot a deer? Many times I would just sit somewhere as I spent to much time getting them ready. They never knew I didn't get to set up or hunt because I didn't have enough time for myself. One Halloween back home my two boys and the young man that I mentored like a 3rd son to me called to ask if it would be OK if they skipped our weekend hunt to go to a Halloween party just once. I said of course you can! I said go have fun and I can find a place around home to go hunt. They did not like that I was still going and without them! Lol! They said why don't I just take the weekend off too as they didn't want me to go without them! I said no it's fine and go have fun! I ended up shooting a 12 point that evening with my bow in Hemlock Mi. The boys called me the next morning and wanted to know if I went alone. I sent them a picture of my buck and me with my bow. I heard silence for a minute and then they said no way dad! They said there is no way I could just go hunt alone one for evening when we have all spent years out not getting one! I said like I taught you just be patient and when its your time it will happen! I said I had to put in many many more years than them in snow, rain, wind and my many mistakes and missed shots!
All 3 never questioned me to why I never shot a deer yet again LOL! All 3 of the boys are young men now and all crack shots and very capable of taking their own trophy deer. They understand that hunting is much more than the kill and a prize! It's spending time to reflect on everything and anything out there and putting all those years of class to work for them to leave the woods with a memory, a story to tell for years to come, another lesson maybe, and if lucky enough a deer and a great big smile on their faces that they know was well earned!
Love the info. Thank you for the great video
Anytime Pamela :) Thanks for watching!
Your content is bar none keep up the great work always enjoy your videos I keep learning the old saying you can’t teach old dogs new tricks but I find I take something out of your content to be able to apply
thank you! We'll keep them coming!
The rut is just starting as the season ends in lower Alabama.
Time to get after it!
Verry informative I agree with you on everything I’ve herd
Thanks Wayne, I appreciate it!
So can we get some public land tips? Where it’s much more difficult to find these locations. When there’s 5k acres of land that doesn’t really have reliable food sources and access is extremely limited. It’s easy when you’re on 40-50acres & you have food plots setup and you can somewhat control where the action is.
i wouldnt say it's easy but it can be easier. and the strategy is the same on public, on private you can personally have more of an influence.
Thank you so much for sharing your this experience with me, haha is truly a great idea. I Learn good lesson from you anyway, have good luck.
Thank you Christopher! I appreciate it!
Great video!! Thank you for sharing .
Thank you! And anytime. Hope your season went well!
Very good video!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks Darren! Appreciate you watching!
Great video.
Thanks!
Gun season never ends once it starts here. Especially in zone 3. Don’t even have to use your muzzleloader anymore. This state is just ridiculous. Makes me so sad. Good luck for the rest of the season man. 👍🏻
Arkansas?
@@nsant michigan
Unreal isn't it? basically a month of gun season. All of the properties I hunt are in Zone 3 too.. It's a miracle these young bucks survive. We could do so much better as a state with a few adjustments to the regs.
@@whitetailevolution it’s just sickening. We see all these states around us making better choices. Sure makes it hard to stay positive here. I’m lucky if I even see a 2.5 after the guns go off, let alone get a shot at one.
@@whitetailevolution indiana here same thing solid month of lead slinging it's sad
Great video 👍
Thanks Steve! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great information. I had a disappointing season again😂😂, still keeping my hopes up. Those pic you have of the deer beding are awsome. I'm thinking about getting a cellular trail cam , any suggestions. Keep the great videos coming, thanks.
Me also Steve there wasn't a single buck I would of put an arrow until now the big bucks are starting to move its crazy. Just keep at it that's all we can do
@@waynemayle865 good luck to you Wayne, I saw 3 good bucks late October, they just disappeared, I see lots of does, not a single buck. Maybe they will come back for the 2nd rut that will happen soon, hope they made it through the gun opener last week.
@@stevegerber835 are gun season starts tomorrow .
Keep at it Steve! Your season can turn around in 5 seconds. Just need to stick to the plan and stay positive.
As far as cell cams there are two that I would recommend. 1st is Cuddelink. My hunting buddy runs these on his property and they run well. Some hiccups here and there but overall very good cell camera system and by far the cheapest monthly cost. 2nd recommendation is the Tactacam Reveal, this is what I run on our property. I run 9 of them and only had an issue with one camera but a quick call to customer service and they reset the camera remotely and it was back online. Very reliable and I haven't had to change the batteries yet this season (put out on labor day). Hope that helps.
@@whitetailevolution thank you, it’s been tough this year with the new owners of the property that surrounds my property, they have definitely changed the deer movement. Don’t know what to do, I’ve done a lot of things you talk about, but not sure the things I’m doing are gonna mater anymore. Gonna keep at it with a positive attitude. Thanks for all that you do.
Great tips.. but you left one out put a little corn buy a couple cheap cameras knocks alot of the guess work out of where the deer are..👍🦌🦌🦌
Haha that would work too. Unfortunately here in Michigan baiting is illegal.
Good information, wondering though, how pertinent it is for hunting whitetail in the south. I live in Georgia, and contrary to popular belief it does get chili here with occasional snow. A dusting typically. Our cold is a wet cold and can get into the 20's fairly regularly with an occasional dip into the teens.
I'm near Mayberry, NC and the deer seem to be bedded down all day and out at night now in December.
I would say that you need to monitor the weather just like we do up north, your deer will move more after a front moves through. As far as winter starvation, you won't need to worry about that nearly as much. Your growing season lasts longer and spring green up comes sooner. But the deer herd will still be looking for late season food sources and trying to conserve energy when they can.
No not to call doesn’t work but in October and only if there is aggressive bucks around didn’t see much this year but fawn and few four points thought I had a doe it butt wa towards me and dropped it between it legs when it went to eat turned out it was a Hutton huck I couldn’t see horns scope was all the way zoomed in.
When is the best time to put out salt/mineral blocks?? Thanks for the videos!!
Spring Summer and early fall.
Great question and Darren is spot on, it's illegal here in Michigan but where it isn't most people put out their salt/mineral blocks throughout the offseason. Again exactly what Darren said, the spring, summer and late summer/early fall.
@@whitetailevolution Thanks
well done as usual!!
Thank you!!
Thanks for the video, alot of great info on late season bedding areas. My question is how can I catch up with the 2 big boys ( 10 pt and 11pt) on my cameras. I have shot a nice 6 pt and a nice 8 pt this year and have 2 tags remaining. Im in Southern Ontario, Canada and our season very much matches upper MI. I have shot both my bucks this year before 730am but I know this was before gun season pressure and now after both ruts over and our weather being warmer then usual with no snow on ground. I have good location between bedding area n food sources easy access etc with out spooking deer, had 6 does all around me 2 nights ago but NO bucks showed. Its dark at 520 pm est, is there any specific thing you would do? I have small food source Im hunting over. Thanks for any additional info from all.
Wayne
We might have missed our window at the 2nd Rut, maybe not, but that's normally around December 6th. Going forward I would focus on those late season food sources if you have any in your area. Standing corn, brassica plots, grain plots or standing soybeans. Wait for a real cold day after a front moves through and sit the travel route to that food source in the afternoon. Late season can be tough but some real old bucks go down this time of year as they start hitting those food sources again trying to replenish those fat reserves.
Good video it gets tough
Thanks Mike and you're right, hunting during the late season isn't easy. But hopefully if we stay at it we can get a crack at a nice buck making freezing our butts off worth it lol.
Very good video
Cool vid
Thanks Beau!
Great Information, is any type of calling warranted during the later season ? Thank You
I always bring my grunt call with me in case I see a buck that's traveling in the opposite direction. The second rut is another time you could try to rattle in a buck but I normally don't rattle just because in high pressure states like Michigan, a lot of hunters rattle and the aggressive bucks that come into that have most likely already been shot / shot at.. So I just stick with the grunt call.
@@whitetailevolution With my experience, mature big bucks don't want to fight. Young and dumb punks will come into the rattles.
I have a two questions?? First question is could you do blind grunt calls like what you do in the first rut to get a mature buck to react or are you doing more damage then good?? Second question during the second rut what call should I use a fawn bleat or doe bleat or does it really matter??
Great questions and if you had success blind calling during the primary rut, I would be comfortable using the same tactics during the second rut. As far as what call should you use, that really depends on what deer you are trying to call and what that deer is doing. For example, your blind call you are trying to call a random deer that might be in the area that you didn't see in hopes that he'll get curious and come in. I use a fawn bleat to get the attention of a mature doe, so if I saw a buck on a doe he's not going to respond to a doe bleat or a grunt call, he's got what he wants already. You need to convince HER to come over and sometimes a fawn bleat or a fawn distress call can do that. A doe bleat will sometimes get the attention of a buck as hes cruising by alone. I'd bring all 3 and use whichever one I needed depending on the situation. Hope that helps!
How can I get a better shot at my buck next year. White taile deer?🦌
Great info! No luck yet, but willing to give it another go.
Don't give up. It can only take 5 seconds to turn your season around. Keep at it Tom!
Great video,I have a question I live in NC and don't have harsh winters that kill deer,does this hold true here as it does up North
I live and hunt in NC and the deer patterns on my property have started to shift this way.
@@jc6077 I agree I'm starting to see alot of the same stuff he talks about here,very interesting
Hey Scott great question, and I am not very familiar with NC but I will say that as the habitat and weather begins to change you will start to notice changes in their patterns. Will it be as drastic as the deer herd up here? I'm not sure. But the patterns of the deer where you hunt will definitely change as we push further into winter.
@@jc6077 I’ve noticed that I find deer bedding in sunny spots in December. Seems like they move in to bed around 10 or so. That’s Rutherford county nc. Cutovers or semi open areas
Corn piles or feeders on every tract in Alabama
That was Michigan before the baiting ban too. Most of the piles here were used by Does and young bucks, rarely heard of an older buck being taken off a bait pile. They learn quick that those are not safe.
@@whitetailevolution it can work for a big deer keeping the does hanging around
what about using mock scrapes? will they work on the second rut?
Yes indeed!!!
Absolutely! Scraping activity picks up a little bit during the second rut as those bucks start to get more active again. Most of my stands are complimented with a mock scrape because they are social hot spots all year long!
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me too!
What if you only have like 3 and half acres to work with?
keep it pressure free, move in at the right time and set realistic expectations.
Did you plant a late season food plot this year?
You know it! Behind the house we have radishes and turnips along with cereal rye. Up north we have that same mix along with a few acres of standing beans. Can't wait to sit over those in a week or two!
@@whitetailevolution I thought that turnip clip may be dated. Glad to hear the deer will not go hunger this year!
I have a deer on camera thats identical to the one hitting that scrape in beginning of video, mines a little bigger but almost i dentical,lol
you are getting a ton of views recently, what do you attribute that to? Im trying to improve my channel. Any advice would be appreciated
I think it has to do with a few things. I try to create content based on what the subscribers want to see at a particular time of the year. So during the fall its more hunting strategy and once the season is over I transition over to habitat improvements. I think hunting content in general gets a lot more traction in the fall because we are all so locked into deer season. Everyone tries to consume as much content as possible, so this contributes to more views. I also have a facebook page, instagram page that I share the videos to. I never know who is following what so I make sure to post the link to all of my pages.
Outside of that, I try my best to create quality content that I would personally want to watch. Keep the videos short to keep the viewer engaged and try to show background video (B Roll) of what you're talking about to help the viewer understand what you're saying. Feel free to email or call if you wanted to chat about creating videos.
Every year I seem to kill my deer around 6:45 am here in SE Louisiana.
West Texas?
Not as familiar with Texas
Does do not = bucks!
Bucks are effected by to much social pressure as well and will leave areas with to many does
correct! Not all the time for sure. no pressure = bucks. But I will say if you do not have does during the rut, your buck sightings will go down quite a bit.
@@whitetailevolution absolutely for sure dude. I should have added that there’s a golden ratio lol sorry wasn’t trying to bash you guys.
They will bed extremely close to their food.
That's great advice! Find those late season food sources that are close to bedding.
A lot more difficult for those hunting public land.
You are right about that. Hunting public land in heavily pressured areas is anything but easy.
7:44 feel bad for that doe 😢
You feel bad because you're imagining that happening to yourself. Deer are tougher than humans. I doubt that affected her much at all.
If you look really close you can see a little spike coming up on one side.. He actually survived too! Watch the video we did called "Once a spike, always a spike". We just show video of this one spike and what he turned into the following season, it's pretty cool! He got shot that next year too and didn't make it though :( was hoping to show what a spike would look like as a 3 year old!
Sure would like to see your trophy room. Advice is easier to follow when you see the proof so people know your not just spouting others advice.
I think I have a couple videos on the channel that I shot indoors (tactacam / ozone tote) and a few of the mounts were in the background. I don't shoot Don Higgin's caliber deer but I try to target the oldest deer using my property on any given year. For the most part, that means I'm shooting 3.5 and every once in a while 4.5 year old bucks. The same caliber bucks you see in the B roll throughout these videos. Great Michigan bucks but not terribly impressive for those destination whitetail states. There's a video on the channel from a few weeks back of a buck we took off our property that is a good representation of what we target.
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There is ONE rut... with a beginning, middle, and ending.
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Slim Shady
Jake
Talk in the snow so it looks more like lake season.
I just needed to wait a day! It's here now. Trust me it was cold out there lol. I don't like to wear gloves but I had to when filming this one!
Good info. Can you talk without using your hands ? It’s a real distraction to me trying to listen to you talk and your hands are flipping & flopping all over the place. Thank You
hands are all over the place.
Tip: eliminate the phrase 'you guys' -- just say 'you'
It's a midwest thing probably, guy
Ok guys. Chill. Ha. 😊
thanks for the tip friend!
There is no such thing as a second rut. That is only a myth, a myth that "whitetail habitat solutions" busted. The man gets paid by sponsors to deer hunt all over the usa and has made it a career for 30 plus years. He also has or had a few deer farms where he studied deer. And he says that there is no such thing as a second rut. He isn't the only one either. There are many other professionals deer hunters that says there is no such thing as a second rut. Whitetail habitat solutions has a video explaining why people think there is a second rut, and then explains why there actually isn't one. I've never believed in a second rut either. It is only doe's that didn't get breed at the start of rut. They stay in heat until a buck gets them, that's it.
😂 does only stay in heat less than 24 hours. God makes it this way so predators can't smell them wherever they are. Deer can go into heat actually more than 2x if they are not breed.
@@gregyoung1364 well your more than welcome to look up the guy who has studied them for the better part of 3 decades. He has had his own farm of over 100 deer on it. And he says there is no evidence of a second rut. They come into heat and stay in heat for a period of time and that's it. I think I'll take the word of a man who has had a team of people studying them.
You literally say everything twice or more, just in slightly different ways. Why do people do this
I always say if it's worth doin, it's worth overdoin ;)
Take a breath pal man you long-winded
Lol thank you for the advice