I've been seeing a lot of increasing activity as of late.

This past weekend in JoDaviess county my dad rattled in two 140-150 class 10 pointers, one to within 25 yards, but couldn't get any shooting. One of the bucks was eventually run off by an even BIGGER buck, probably somewhere in the 160-170+ class. He was too far off to tell exactly how big though.

Rubs and scrapes are definitely picking up though. One of my stands in JoDaviess county has between 10 and 12 rubs within 30 yards of it that just popped up over the last week or so.

A friend of mine saw a small 6 pointer trailing a doe with his nose to the ground as well. This was the same morning that the guys on the farm next to us shot the nice 10 pointer I've been watching and it ran right underneath my stand and died. Figures, eh?

I think this weekend the rut is really gonna start kicking in though. At least, I hope it will.

Edited by - Zarr on 10/30/2002 09:33:24