Midwest Chasing?
 

Just wondering if anyone in the Midwest area has seen any bucks chasing does... If so how big?

I had a really nice 10pt chase a doe by me Saturday morning... If i could have stopped him, he might have got an arrow!!!

I had some young bucks chasing yesterday morning

Hadn't seen much action yet in WIS- wittenberg area. But with all this rain and now a crazy wind storm coming. Things this week could be slow and get turned on about Friday. That's the hope anyway cuz my week vacation starts at noon Friday. And I should live in my stand for a week. (Or less :) if things go well)

Here in So. Il, I was watching my buddies trail cams tonight on the computer and saw 4 bucks still in bachelor groups walking around in his foodplot tonight together!!!!! I have hunted 5 times since last Monday Am and have not seen any bucks chasing. Killed a management 3-1/2 to 4 yr old 5pt 2 weeks ago friday. Tarsal glands were clean as could be!!!! No scent or color change. Maybe this cool front coming this week may do something for us.

Tons of chasing. Scrapes are getting destroyed, I've had 12 diff bucks hit my scrape in the last ten days Mostly at night but a some lil bucks during the day and 4 shooters even at various times last week in the light. I took in 5 bucks this weekend. Smallest was 140" biggest was 176". Know of a couple others shot this weekend that were huge in our area. Neighbor hit a big 160s yesterday that was runnin a doe hard. He barely got the buck stopped and basically had to yell at him at ten yards but with a one lung and liver shot he had to track a ways and got rained out while tracking and lost all blood. He is still searching for that one and almost got ran over by a doe and another big 150" buck while looking for his today. All heck is gonna break loose with this cold snap coming. This week and weekend will be huge for big bucks dropping. The bucks are pumped up too. 3 of the 5 had 25+ inch necks and went well over 200lbs and the big 176 id guess was 230lbs if not more. Good luck. The rut is on and if you find an early doe in heat ur in the hot seat. Bring on Halloween weekend!!

wingchaser... Sounds like a lot of the same action we have up here in central wis. The bucks are just pounding the scrapes. Hope the weather stays nasty until the weekend. Should be a good one! Gotta love Halloween

Yeah its really heatin up in WI. The next 12 days are gonna be the main rut

I personally have not seen any bucks chasing yet. I'm also in central Wisconsin. Once the wind moves through, hopefully we'll start seeing some action. Weekend looks good so far...

I'm also in west central WI and its really spotty, saw 2 shooters eating within 10 feet of each other last night. Very few scrapes here but you go 10 miles north and its tore up. Like someone else said, I think this weekend its going to get wild!

Hey Wisconsin Guys,

I saw rubs and scrapes really, really early this year compared with, say, the last 5 years. I started noticing scrapes in early Sept. as well as rubs. All that activity seems to have slowed in the last week or so... Anyone noticed similar behavior or is it just me?

We always have scrapes on field edges early in the year, rubs seem to have been popping up in the past couple of weeks, along with a few scrapes in the woods now.

In southwestern wisco i didnt see anything rut related last weekend... my buddy shot a nice 8 point 3.5 yr old that was chasing up in buffalo county last weekend though... this weekend should be really good, as well as the weekend after that

good luck hunting guys!

In N.E Wi. I have not gotten much of anything, a couple of scrapes from a few weeks back, but nothing new and nothing back to those. Guy that works for me is just north about 10 miles and says he has "tons" on scrapes and rubs, so I may not have any deer here.

SW wisconsin, about the same here. cameras are showing alot of scrape activity at night. was out this evening a had a decent 8pt following doe does. he wasnt really pushing them around tho

though this wind would have them hunker down but this afternoons set was pretty eventfull. seen one other buck at 3pm seeking as well, a backet rack and a few other does. either way it shoud be right around the corner.

The wind can actually get them moving sometimes cuz they don't feel comfortable. One of my best times on stand last year was night before halloween with 40mph winds. I was somewhat isolated in only like 20mph winds in a valley and the deer were in their heavy ahd the bucks were chasin and responding well to rattling.

Here is some of the scrape activity I've had on camera. I've got hundreds more pics of these bucks and exspecially the big ten. Think I've got about 350 pics of him (and not with a bursting camera). He is my most frequent visitor and hits the scrape almost every night and some nights multiple times but has only showed his face once in the light and that was last monday and I obviously wasnt on stand that night. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2094703&id=184806270&l=30e0c069c2

Looks like you have da "CHIT"!