Deer Rut Guide: The Best Whitetail Hunting in Florida

The rutting periods for Florida’s whitetail deer are all over the map, literally and figuratively. Not only is the deer rut prolonged compared to other states, but peak activity also varies across our state. In the southern Peninsula, breeding season is late summer, while throughout the Panhandle and central Florida deer love lingers into the spring air.

Why there is this variability is not fully understood. There is reason to believe that it’s the result of whitetail restocking efforts in the middle part of the 20th century. It’s thought that does introduced from other states with earlier or later estrous cycles maintained those over the years.

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