I was up near Whitecourt all last week and came home yesterday. It was the tail end of the rut, and to compound things even worse, a large pack of wolves moved into the area. There is still lots of good shooting left, the bucks are still up for a ride, even if the females are not. In this area, there is a much bigger rut in the middle of December. When I first started hunting with my Father, a whitetail tag was good until the week before Christmas. We often shot deer in December in Northern Alberta.