What's up with this buck?
12-11-2007, 04:03 PM
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What's up with this buck?
On Sunday I was out hunting the last of the "antlerless only" gun season and saw a strange(to me) sequence of events. It was about 10am and I'd already given up so was headed back to the truck.
.....when I noticed some rather large tracks on top of my tracks that I made going to my stand. What seemed odd was that this buck walked right directly in my tracks, sometimes for a hundred yards. I followed the tracks to a point where he stopped to rub a small pine sapling. This late in the season??? He also stopped twice to use the bathroom. In another 300yds he stopped againand torethe heck out of the side of a large tree leaving bark debris all over the top of the fresh fallen snow. This puzzles me even more than the pine sapling. His tracks then got mixed up with dozens others around a fallen oak where the deer were digging through the snow looking for acorns.
All of this after 9:30 I know 'cause that's when it quit snowing. Any of this odd to you guys considering the time of the year?
.....when I noticed some rather large tracks on top of my tracks that I made going to my stand. What seemed odd was that this buck walked right directly in my tracks, sometimes for a hundred yards. I followed the tracks to a point where he stopped to rub a small pine sapling. This late in the season??? He also stopped twice to use the bathroom. In another 300yds he stopped againand torethe heck out of the side of a large tree leaving bark debris all over the top of the fresh fallen snow. This puzzles me even more than the pine sapling. His tracks then got mixed up with dozens others around a fallen oak where the deer were digging through the snow looking for acorns.
All of this after 9:30 I know 'cause that's when it quit snowing. Any of this odd to you guys considering the time of the year?
12-11-2007, 04:10 PM
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RE: What's up with this buck?
No. Deer will continue to rub and exibit rut behavior until their antlers are shed. The 2nd rut should be about winding down soon and there will be a third blip about the first week of Jan around here. Depending on how stressed out the bucks got, they will start shedding in Jan. I know that some already have, but most will start the 2nd or 3rd week of Jan, all the way through March.
12-11-2007, 04:56 PM
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RE: What's up with this buck?
oh yea......well i was in the woods the other day and i got this wierd feeling in my gut and i pulled down my pants and a large brown substance came out of my cornhole!! this time of year???? anyone??? j/k buddy!
no, this isn't strange at all man, once again they only get one chance to breed every fall.....now this isn't JUST during the golden weeks in november. does come into heat at different times....some during what they refer to as the second rut. bucks hormones are flowing and there is no certain period of time that they release their aggression, this takes place as long as their horns are hard and they are able to smell that sweet aroma of hot does!
no, this isn't strange at all man, once again they only get one chance to breed every fall.....now this isn't JUST during the golden weeks in november. does come into heat at different times....some during what they refer to as the second rut. bucks hormones are flowing and there is no certain period of time that they release their aggression, this takes place as long as their horns are hard and they are able to smell that sweet aroma of hot does!
12-11-2007, 05:53 PM
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RE: What's up with this buck?
ORIGINAL: Sliverflicker
Next time you hunt there, walk in a big circle real fast and see if you can catch up with him!
Next time you hunt there, walk in a big circle real fast and see if you can catch up with him!
12-11-2007, 05:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Wisconsin
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RE: What's up with this buck?
Hey bud, I think that the rut up here was a little earlier than most think. You ran into a buck that probably came across the path of a hot doe. The second estrous should of started about the time of the zone t hunt. After the first estrous period, if a doe does not breed she may come back into heat 28 day's later. If it is a young doe and she didn't come into estrous during the first cycle, she may come into estrous during the second estrous. The zone t hunt here in WI really screwd up the good late season hunting here in WI.