The rut starts generally Nov 3rd through 14 days or so. Always is over before gun season, although there are a few straglers. I have seen him 4 times from the air, 3 times within a 50 yard circle. He is right here in town, ATC knows I am up to something. I keep buzzing right outside their airspace.
Steve (my hanger partner, by the way) has scouted Bullwinkle so much that the beast can now read N numbers at a 100 yards... poor tormented thing, he had to go nocturnal so he wouldn't get a sore neck from having to look up all the time and then what does he get... spots before his eyes!
I'm sure there will be many reports to follow: Success from Steve; and the "Oh Man almost" chronicles from his stable mates,