The whitetail rut is coming. This much We know. Whitetails will travel and breed, bucks will relax their prodigious survival instincts, and the odds of seeing and killing a mature buck will tip toward hunters. But the rut rarely tracks with the calendar across the country, or even within individual states. Weather, crop harvests, hunting pressure, doe populations, and other localized factors also determine what the bucks are doing where you hunt. So the time stamps on these clues will vary depen