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The temperature does have something to do with "buck rutting activity". It may have nothing to do with when the does come into estrous but buck activity will increase with a pre-rut cold front.

Jimmy - crapping under your stand will surely ruin it. If the wind is right you could dump 50 ibs of crap and human hair under your stand and still get your buck. But what happens that night when you are home, or the next day - any buck in the area will smell it, and the next time you hunt it you will have slim pickins. I believe 90% of the deer we get busted by bust us when we are gone.

They poop to find there way home??????<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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How about the frost triggers the rut I love that one

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While the velvet is new and still carrying blood to the antlers, bucks are known to lightly scratch their antlers and cap on small branches. However, being a buck is highly protective of his antlers while in velvet, which is actually a layer of blood vessels that feed the antlers and enables their (antlers) size, I doubt that a buck is going to roughly rub its antlers against any hard object.

It has been said that a buck's antlers itch when the velvet is no longer needed and has died, and then a buck will scratch his head against a tree, sapling, etc. Maybe they do but, to me, it does not make sense that the antlers will itch. The blood flow to make the velvet is completely shut off and the antlers are now solid bone. Does bone itch?

As for normal rubs, I believe they are only made as the buck removes the dead velvet and shines his antlers in preparation for his display to other bucks and does, and to strengthen his neck for imminent battles. He also practices battling, on brush and small saplings

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The color of a bucks antlers are determined by the type of tree he rubs... False.

Hunt the thickets

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Once a spike buck, always a spike buck. What a joke, when did you ever shoot a 200lb 4 yr old spike. In fact in a collage university test a 1 1/2 yr old spike turned into a 22 point NT in 4 years.

about the freezing water topic,Hot water needs to cool down to the same temp as the cold water does at one point, at that point its no different that the cold water when it was put in the cold and just takes longer to freeze. the thing is misquoted more than not. the truth is hot water has a more rapid rate of temp loss due to the fact that the more the delta T is the greater the heat loss.

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c903...I agree with you whole heartedly about the bucks and their rubs but my question to Smitty was why would a &quot;does&quot; head itch.

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That killing a 10 pointer is more satisfying than killing a mature doe<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
Hot water evaporates more quickly creating it's own wind flow pattern across its surface. This wind chill creates a colder environment and yes it will freeze faster- we have done this experiement several times and it has always happened.

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