Due to the present conditions, it is highly possible that this year´s rut in La Pampa Province will begin much later than usual.
When are you going, fellows?

I'm going from the 14th of march till the 24th of march.

If they don't roar never mind, the first days I have enough moon for battling the resident pig population

Today we have had a lot of rain here, what happened there ?

L

Lorenzo: nothing, just a few drops. I understand that there was some more rian in the North of Buenos Aires, but not in La Pampa. Of course, prime hunting ranches are feeding the stags with artificial pastures or "rollos" and such expensive methods (you are the agronomical engineer, not me, please excuse my ignorance of the terms).

So far, and trying to coordinate probable rut time and my own possibilities, I will be having my opportunity shortly after Easter...

But at least I have something to feed my soul: my guide has just told me that this weekend he will be scouting my hunting area, to see if old males are starting to move around so perhaps my chance will have its place sooner

I must be the less experienced guy around here when we talk about red stag hunting, but my opinion is that one can not go wrong around the 20th of march.

When you go too late, the farms have already feel some hunting preassure by the previous hunters, so maybe some good stags have been already taken or spooked in a given property. Sometimes too much hunting preassure cuts completely the roar in a given place.

Too early means running the risk of not having any rut at all, and that makes nearly impossible to find the stags in la pampa bush.

As I said, any dates around the 20th of march you will have some roar (a lot or a little bit depending the weather, the property, etc) to be able to try to bag a nice stag.

Also if the weather is too hot and you don't have much roar, you can stalk around a water hole during the last day light hours as the femals and their stag will be very dirsty.

Good luck

L

Each one of us have our own book of knowledge, based on our own experiences and studies...thus the importance for all of us is that the consequent success (or lack of) is obtained through our own made decisions of where, how, when and even what to hunt... and so the level of the final satisfaction will be intimately judged by how wisely we happened to take those decisions, at least that's my humble opinion of every hunting trip I made and will make ...

I am convinced that in the life of a deer (in fact in most animals) the environment plays a fundamental role, and the stimulus that this environment emit in its various ways are captured by the nervous system of each alive organism, forcing it either to change or to synchronize their functions to maintain permanently tuned their adaptation mechanisms... and this way to harmonize their functions to the continuous climatic sways characteristic of each biological period, in such a way, and in the case that occupies us, to be able to discern when the mating time approach - thus I believe that this drought and excessive heats we are dealing with just now will be translated in a sort of confusion for the deers' nervous systems... but ultimately supplemented and adjusted by the internal clock that we all have , for what I believe that in fact the rut will begin much later than usual (as has happened at least the last two years ) but the worst of this, IMHO, is not this supposed delay but that the rut period will last much less...


What can I say? The important thing is not to hunt, but being hunting (with a logical possibility of success judged by our own premises !)

Good hunt to you all in this incoming rut !!

The last two years I had an increadible roar in the area near General Acha.

In the 2007 I hunted from the 13th till the 18th of march and in the 2008 I hunted beteween the 22th and the 27th of march.

As I said in another thread, the last ten days of march will be good this year.

This year I am going earlier (between the 14th and the 24th because I always go with the moon because I am a pig hunter first and a red stag hunter second

This year the full moon is too earlier so I am going the week after it.

Follow the moon and you will find me

L