2015 Rut thread....

[skeeter 20i]

The bucks  started showing up this week 

Same here! Out of the blue here come the bucks.. Funny how that works each year .

The light switch came on for us last weekend *poof* there they are.

[kirkl]

I hope not with a Muley rut tag in my pocket.

[huntingbaldguy]

3 bucks have been sparring over my bait pile in the dark for a month lol. 

[DoubleJ]

3 bucks have been sparring over my bait pile in the dark for a month lol. 

Must be one sexy bait pile

[boneaddict]

Loki... I got a text from my mom who was visiting family on the wet side, said a huge blacktail buck walked across their yard. It was like noon.   She thought it was a big muley. (Remember she is from Twisp).    I figured that was a good sign, when the big matures star showing themselves midday and it's not pouring rain.

[boneaddict]

The later season Kirkl is going to tap some of your possible candidates. 

[ShadowHunter]

The Mule Deer around here definitely have started to rut already, earliest I have ever seen.  Our son, had two 4 point bucks (3 of them one night) fighting in his yard 3 nights in a row last week.  He said they went at it for almost 2 hours one night.

[kirkl]

The later season Kirkl is going to tap some of your possible candidates. 

Oh ya. I'm ready.

[h20hunter]

Just 20 minutes ago in the front yard a local doe was being trailed by a  massive bodied 4x4....biggest blackmail buck I've seen in person.

[Kittman]

About 8:30 am yesterday morning where I work we watched a 2x3 BT chasing a doe down the middle 5th St here in Anacortes.  Maybe they were heading to The Majestic to get a room or...Brown Lantern for a drink to get in the mood?  Anyhow it wise a nice distraction from the way to long teleconference meeting call that I was attending.

[JDHasty]

Loki... I got a text from my mom who was visiting family on the wet side, said a huge blacktail buck walked across their yard. It was like noon.   She thought it was a big muley. (Remember she is from Twisp).    I figured that was a good sign, when the big matures star showing themselves midday and it's not pouring rain.

Yup.

They were out last Saturday in the rain and weather when we were setting stands and I had already seen a big mature buck cross in front of my pickup in north Tacoma a week earlier (8:00 PM) and he smelled to high heaven.  I saw anther big buck in north Tacoma, just up from Harbor Lights, and he was in the middle of a lawn in broad daylight yesterday.  I think the rut is in full swing.   

[Gringo31]

I saw 5 bucks this morning.

One was with 6 does, the other three were all by themselves. 

[lokidog]

The same buck came by my worksite with his nose up a doe's butt.  I'll have my bow at work next week.   

[Timberstalker]

The Mule Deer around here definitely have started to rut already, earliest I have ever seen.  Our son, had two 4 point bucks (3 of them one night) fighting in his yard 3 nights in a row last week.  He said they went at it for almost 2 hours one night.

Seems incredibly early.

[Griz231]

Just planted a few trees in the front yard and one of the Alaskan cedars was ripped out of the ground and shredded. Never saw the buck but I have a camera in the front yard now. Checked cams last weekend in the back 40 and just a few does so maybe the ruts kicking off around lake stevens area in the last couple days.