#436 - The 2026 Rut Calendar: Every Key Date That You NEED To Hunt This Fall with Jason Michael
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#436 - The 2026 Rut Calendar: Every Key Date That You NEED To Hunt This Fall with Jason Michael

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 20261 hr 4 min
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Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with Jason Michael. We Discuss: The 2026 rut calendar: key October and November dates based on solunar movement charts. Southern hunters can add roughly one lunar month to every November rut date. For mature bucks, the wind should be almost perfect for him and almost wrong for you. Setting up at 30 to 40 yards instead of 20 can keep a crosswind from busting you. Dead calm is the worst wind, while 8 to 10 mph is ideal for...

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96, 98% of the viewers have never heard this one. On this episode of the Whitetail podcast presented by Onyx, we are joined by Jason Michael. She's a homebody.

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She will be in that woodlot for the next four or five years. And she will come back into estrus. Plus or minus 24 hours of that day. It ain't going to be eight days earlier or three days later.

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It is almost eerie how accurate that is. Every year he comes back and we do a rut calendar day by day to plan out your entire season. Obviously, this isn't an exact science,

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