I hunt outside of Llano. Has anyone else noticed what I can only describe as a trickle rut? It seems like there has not been a true to form rut, but more like a buck chasin here one day, and maybe a buck chasin there the next. It has just not exploded like I am used to. Just curious if anyone else has been seeing this.

Saw a 10 point breed a doe the second Saturday of the season and then saw no rutting activity at all over Thanksgiving Holidays other than a buck looking at a doe and the doe running off. We hunt outside of Junction and have seen very little solid rutting activity. Seems like the deer know it should be happening, but they just cannot get into it.

we are in San Saba and would agree with the "trickle" rut. It has been strange and we have not seen the heavy rut we saw in 2009. Maybe the drought has something to do with this. We did see bucks chasing does throughout the entire month of November, but it was spotty. In some areas you see nothing going on and in other areas there would be a buck locked down with a doe. If there was a time where rut activity was highest it was around Nov 11-15. We saw a few bucks chasing the first weekend and saw some bucks still chasing over Thanksgiving too.

I know this for sure: the rut on our lease in Walker County was two weeks later than usual. The little peckerheads have been bumping does for a month but over Thanksgiving the big boys finally started too (and one of them paid the price).

I've had the same problem here in LA, but I wouldn't even go as far as calling it a trickle rut. It's been a strange season. Very little, if any, rutting activity in the whole area of north central LA. Usually the week Thanksgiving is a good time to be in the woods. This year, nothing. Any activity must have been done at night. I'm not even seeing the scrapes I usually see. I have managed to kill two pretty decent bucks, but other than one more, they are the only two decent ones I have seen all season. This November has been warmer than usual, so maybe that has something to do with it, but we still should have seen a few bucks cruising.

same thing we are seeing around evant

We hunt Schleicher County. I have pretty much been in the field since opening weekend. It turned on this weekend. I think warm weather full moon and South winds slowed things down some. We still have acorns on the tree so I think when it gets warm the deer just sit up. The colder the better. If you can get out and rattle you should allright.

Spot on for our area too, southern Sutton County.

In almost 40 years of deer hunting I have seen more of what is being described as "trickle" rut than the full blown all out rut we hear about and see on occasion.

Trickle rut is true when the first full moom in November hits later than normal.

For the first time in 10+ years of hunting northern Blanco Co., I've seen bucks chasing doe every weekend. In the past, it seemed to me like the first rut was ending at the beginning of the season and the second rut would start around Thanksgiving or so.

Trickle Rut. Never heard it called that but it seems about right.

Full blown rut has been in progress in Mills county for several weeks. It slowed some last week during the unusually warm weather but the last couple of days of cool weather have kicked it in high gear again.

Did it start around the same part of November as last year.ive seen rutting behavior all season long.That dousnt mean its full blown rut yet.You cant base the full blown rut on any few sightings.

Well the only thing I know to do is to get back out there as soon as possible. In this case will be Friday. I've got my eye on a ten point that has been hanging out at some of my feeders, so hopefully he will step out. This will be my last weekend of the year. The good lord will be blessing me with my first child on the 15th, and I pray she looks like her mother. With a little luck I will have some pics up of a big buck down come next week.

Full blown rut I am referring to will be over in this area in the next week or so probably. Mills county has a very high density of deer and our rut will be stretched from October to January but historially the major rut starts the first or second week of Nov. and runs thru the first or second week of Dec.

I'm more and more happy with my 10 point each day I hunt!! Rut must be over here!