2015 Rut thread....

[JakeLand]

Passed on a 2 point this morning and he was not interested in anything but finding a bed out of the wind ( about 10 yrds or so from me )

[lokidog]

We shot two bucks tonight, both chasing the same doe, they are stinky stinky!

[PolarBear]

My daughter's buck today was just starting to swell up but man was he stinky!  He only went 30 yards but I was able to track him through the shoulder deep ferns and salal with my nose.

[boneaddict]

Good for her!

[fishnfur]

 
Way to go Polar Bear's daughter!

[fishnfur]

BTW,
  I'm curious if anybody is seeing big mature bucks out in the open chasing like they were ten days ago.  Anybody seeing anything unusual, or just the smaller bucks scent checking does, which is what I think I'm reading from the latest posts?

[JimmyHoffa]

Just the smaller ones--checking and chasing.  But even that is more pronounced than in past years (or obvious to me anyways).  Seeing quite a few does off as singles too.  But still not seeing anything bigger than a fork out day walking.  Though the fog has been in so think until about 11 or noon each day since the opener, couldn't tell you what's more than 40 yards away most of the time.  The big ones don't seem to run around stupid until Nov 1 here.

[lokidog]

BTW,
  I'm curious if anybody is seeing big mature bucks out in the open chasing like they were ten days ago.  Anybody seeing anything unusual, or just the smaller bucks scent checking does, which is what I think I'm reading from the latest posts?

Not big ones, here, but definitely mature. Very much into certain does. If I was hunting, I would be out all day right now if possible.  A neighbor saw two bugs sparring in a yard at noon today.

[higunner]

To nice bucks chasing does in my field this evening just before 6:00. The family loved watching it.

[DoubleJ]

higunner, I'll have my 2 boys over to take care of that problem for you

[huntingbaldguy]

I have a pair of old does that had fawns late.  Their fawns just lost their spots.  I'm assuming they could be going in to estrous late, or do you think that matters at all?

[JimmyHoffa]

I have a pair of old does that had fawns late.  Their fawns just lost their spots.  I'm assuming they could be going in to estrous late, or do you think that matters at all?

are they still nursing?

[lokidog]

Not mature, not looking too rutty, but out in the middle of the day. Time stamp was 2 hours off, it was 12:19 today.  This is the spot my son got his buck.  I could smell a rutty deer and one had passed by on the edge of the frame at midnight.

[eliandsky]

This weekend will be a slaughter. Won't say where but my buck at 6800 no sign of rutting. My buddies at 5000. Swollen neck. Massive body. Pissed out diamond tuffs on his hind quarters couldn't give two *censored*s we watched and killed him at 15 yards with no attempt to run at 5pm. It's early

[fishnfur]

Saw a buck jump off a road in 530/Ryderwood DNR lands today, which is unusual.  I never see bucks on the road here.  The woods were dead and quite during 4 hours in big timber.  No sign of movement there.  Another hunter I talked to said he's only seen one doe all season.  They must all be in bigger/older reprod (?).  I'm pretty much done with this unit, for obvious reasons.