I don't think the rut has begun here in southern Indiana yet but the chase faze or Bucks pushing the Does is beginning as I witnessed it yesterday. Tuesday night I saw a 6 pointer who seemed to be giving a big Doe a little extra attention as he followed her into the woods. They are scraping and making rubs as of Thursday night. I went out in that high wind you guys had in Kansas Wednesday but had to get out of my stand because it was a cold wind. I went for a walk trying to still hunt for a while and came upon a nice scrape with a licking branch hanging down.I thought it was a man made scrape at first buy it was a bucks hoof marks all around. I noticed a rub line also which confirms a Buck is working about 300 yards behind my stand site. Later Blackhawk.