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Post by NON-TYPICAL on Oct 13, 2009 13:15:41 GMT -5
Last couple days been seeing bucks checking does when entering the field. The bucks are younger but are running up to does and cheking them. Anyone else seeing the same thing?
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Post by ridgerunner on Oct 13, 2009 14:31:54 GMT -5
Gonna be an early year...The buck I shot on Oct 3rd. smelled rutty and his tarsal glands were stained already...I can't figure it out..? Weird year..? everything seems real early.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 13, 2009 16:37:04 GMT -5
Very interesting. I see a lot of red oak acorns on the ground now. They seem earlier than usual.
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Post by jajwrigh on Oct 13, 2009 21:48:23 GMT -5
I remember last year the opening weekend of gun season still had a lot of leaves up on the tree. Kind of how it is now, but this is a month sooner!! I feel an early rut coming as well....
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Post by cambygsp on Oct 14, 2009 6:30:44 GMT -5
Last couple days been seeing bucks checking does when entering the field. The bucks are younger but are running up to does and cheking them. Anyone else seeing the same thing? NO...........And thats because I havent even seen a deer yet! |
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 14, 2009 6:39:57 GMT -5
Last couple days been seeing bucks checking does when entering the field. The bucks are younger but are running up to does and cheking them. Anyone else seeing the same thing? Young male teeagers feeling their oats....... I've seen it before. The pre-rut stays pretty much the same every fall with the moon phases, shorter days, & cooler temps. |
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Post by Decatur on Oct 14, 2009 8:25:08 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Oct 14, 2009 8:35:37 GMT -5
Deertracks +2 Rut is always the same time every year. Cooler temps help with the intensity of it. Although contrary to belief I've read some stuff by experts that state the moon does not play as big of roll as what they thought. |
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Post by racktracker on Oct 14, 2009 9:01:27 GMT -5
I saw a pretty nice buck out cruising last night.
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Post by Decatur on Oct 14, 2009 9:18:39 GMT -5
Deertracks Do you have any links to articles concerning this? I'd like to read them if you do. Thanks! |
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Oct 14, 2009 18:52:51 GMT -5
It was in a Field & Stream or Outdoor Life I was reading at the doctor's office. It was last year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 18:58:17 GMT -5
It's all because of Global Warming...just ask Al Gore!  |
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Post by oggie on Oct 14, 2009 19:49:12 GMT -5
All the doe's I've seen were by themselves with no bucks the only buck I've seen was not even close to the doe's.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 16, 2009 11:13:21 GMT -5
I hunted Illinois yesterday evening. I saw 7 deer. 3 Does by themselves and 4 bucks by themselves. Well, actually two 1 1/2 year old bucks were together. The other two bucks were singular. One buck came clear across a 200 yard picked corn field to enter the woods/thicket on my side a hundred yards south of me. He seemed very attentative to something in the woods/thicket. He, nor anything else, came back out of that woods/thicket. A 2 1/2 year old six pointer was the best I saw. He was within 5 yards of my stand. The "teenagers" are up and about trying to figure out what is going on in their bodies...  |
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 16, 2009 13:39:44 GMT -5
I saw 2 bucks feeding together last night.
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Post by vortex100 on Oct 16, 2009 21:19:02 GMT -5
I went out tonight and saw 10 does and 1 button buck feeding in the beans. I have noticed several rubs and my first scrape this evening. I would say that the rut is generally around the same time, but some does without fawns may be ready to breed in the next couple weeks.
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