Danger buck

After the rut, things generally go very quiet very quickly. Bucks can be difficult to find – you can’t blame them, as they have eaten little and spent the best part of three weeks fighting, chasing and generally running themselves to a frazzle. Many of them will have some battle scars – if you see them go at each other, sometimes it’s a wonder there are not more fatalities. All the more reason to get out as much as possible before the rut ends.

Here, the rut will continue in an average season to around the second week in August, depending on the weather. Then they disappear into the trees and generally rest up