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    TOUGH IT OUT

    Oct 13, 2020 5 minutes
    By Gary Lewis

    If you’re holding a general-season rifle deer tag or a late-season archery or a muzzle-loader permit for a late-October or November blacktail hunt, the more rain and snow that falls now, the better your chances of filling said tag.

    Just ask a butcher or a taxidermist. The vast majority of their overtime hours come during the period from the last week of October through the last day of rifle season. Miserable weather combined with rutting behavior puts the biggest blacktail bucks of the season in hunters’ crosshairs.

    Hunter pressure, weather, feed and the breeding season change the way deer behave in late October and November. If you closed out the season last year without punching your tag, here’s how to prevent a repeat performance.

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