Lovesick Bucks – Love Is In The Air

It’s that time of year. The pre-rut or the peak of the rut. I’m not exactly sure. I’m not a hunter or huntress. But I do know hunters are scrambling to the woods in hopes of connecting with some lovesick buck.

This was a post I did about a year ago and I thought it was the perfect time of year to share it once again…

The other night my hunter and I were chatting about the details of the 12 point buck he just harvested. Normally I really try and hold my attention to the conversation but my mind wonders when it comes to deer hunting. I can’t explain it. I’m not sure if it’s because my hunter goes into so much detail or if it’s because he tries to correct me when I say stuff like deer grunt thingymajigger and I like saying deer grunt thingymajigger and I don’t like him correcting me on my deer grunt thingymajigger.

My hunter continued on and I continued to, um, try and listen as any non-hunting wife sometimes does. Ladies I know you know about that. Then I heard things like pre-rut, peak of the rut and post-rut and suddenly my hunter had my full attention.

“Wooo down boy. You are not going to give me the birds and the bees lesson in hunting.”

My hunter tried explaining that right now with the pre-rut the smaller bucks are running mad after the does. It’s a good time to be in the woods. It’s almost the peak of the rut which is when the bigger bucks challenge other bucks, they’re running off smaller bucks and chasing after does day and night.

“Hi, I’m Jody, your wife, the one who doesn’t hunt. The one who doesn’t need to know about some lovesick buck hot after his doe.”

“That stuff is private.”

The following day I had given this more thought and decided I had to learn more about this kind of stuff if I want to run this blog like a real wife of a hunter.

“Hi, I’m Jody, learning lessons of lovesick bucks.”

I found some really helpful information at HuntingNet.Com. I read about the pre-rut, peak of the rut and when I came to the post-rut and read this …

The rut dies rather suddenly for bucks. After months of build-up, and then the surge of rutting activity, their testosterone levels drop quickly and the animals soon return to normal physiological makeup. But there is one glaring shortcoming: a post-rut buck will have lost upwards of 25% of his body weight, and he enters the lean winter months gaunt and exhausted. At this stage, big bucks want nothing more than to feed and be left alone.

Well, well, well.  I now realize just how similar man and beast really are. Well, maybe not the loss of 25% of their body weight.

Have a good day all … love is in the air!