The rut is the promised land. It’s the great equalizer between Hunter and hunter, and hunter and whitetail. It’s a couple-week period that is destined to deliver dumb deer to us, and if we’re lucky, provide a magical encounter or two that makes it all worth the wait. Except, it mostly doesn’t. The rut is kind of like a trip to Disney World. The buildup is incredible, but the reality is that most of the time you’ll be waiting in line while...