the rut is on: mom almost scored..with the Tahoe
 

Heading home from my football game last nite about 9 PM, and my mom slammed on the breaks...150" 10 point walked out infront of the car...stood there in the yellow looking up and down teh road, lip curled at the car, and slowly walked across the road into teh woods, about 2 miles from my house...i think its a sign of the rut starting..the bucks have started chasing a bit...be careful out there on teh roads guys and good luck this weekend!

slayer

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Glad to hear that your mom's car was spared the damage that he would have done... Here in Maryland, they won't start rutting for another 2-3 weeks.

By the way, how's your arm doing? Has it healed 100%?

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I drive a tahoe as well and i nailed a doe last year at like 70. she did over $3,000 worth of damage. the rut isn't on here in kansas yet but i did see a little 6 pt with five does tonight. he wasn't chasing though, hell i dont know he could've been a *****. HAHA Glad your mom didn't hit him though, now you can shoot him. good hunting.

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here in southern indiana think rut will start in a few weeks....hopefully

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It's definetly not the way you want to take your deer for the season,glad to hear your mom didn't have any damage to her car .Good luck to hunting this big guy.

nubo

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We've said this time and again. You cannot judge the rut by a bucks behavior. Sure the bucks are gear up in anticipation of the ruts begining but the does control and determine the rut. The bucks can do all the chasin, all the lip curlin, all the rubbin, all the scrapin and all the battlin they want...it means nothing until the does come into estrous and in the northern hemisphere that PA and WI are in, the prerut is near it's start and "the rut" or peak when most if not all the does are coming into estrous is all but a month out.

I'm glad your mom and the vehicle and...the buck escaped injury.

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Well put Rob let me know when you come into rut, deal!

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Sorry rob, forgot to include the latest scouting reports..theres a few guys in the area that have been seeing some chasing activity, probably teh does were in estrous. i understand peak rut isnt until early november...unfortunately, they took away the 4 best days of the season for me...its Zone T now during our fall break, doe only in our county. and in this part of teh county, there arent even taht many deer. alot of bowhunters are really mad about it. I think this cold weather we've had the last few days has really got the deer moving around..its supposed to be 20 MPH winds tommorrow, but im still gonna try it..

Even with the grill guard, hitting a good sized deer doing 65 would do quite a bit of damage im sure...

thanks for asking jimbo, everything is healed up..i just have a scar and a bit of carbon in my hand. too deep to dig out most of it was.

good luck this weekend

slayer

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Here in northern indiana the rut dosent start untill oct.28 thats when the first does go into heat.Wright know the bucks are makeing scrape and soon calling and rattling will work.When the rut is on i stay in the woods all day moving from treestand to treestand.I will see several bucks,i just waite for the right on to take,Last year i waited for a spical buck that i took becuse in 2002 this deer messed with me and i waited for him,its a nine pointed with a messed up rack...KILL A BUCK SAVE A TRUCK

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Oh I agree that one might see some chasin...I've seen it myself but the does didn't want anything to do with the bucks. The bucks will check out every doe they come upon with zest and zeal and the does right now will surely flee that intrusion. Probably like PA, WI might have does that come in slightly early due to the large deer population, but the "rut" is still a couple weeks to a month out. I was simply commenting on the thread title..."The rut is on"......but I do wish it were..but I'll be patient. I have Oct 28-30, Nov 3-13th off work so I hope the "rut" will be on schedule.:D

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The does may determine when the rut starts but make no mistake the Bucks Testosterone levels are rising. I have hunted all over wisconsin for many years and from my experience things don't get going good till second week of nov. It does seem however that not all areas are on the same time frame in a given year. It can be slow as all heck in the north and the south part of the state can be going great.............dabow

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I scheduled my vacation from Oct 27th through Nov 14th to coincide with the pre-rut staqe. All the sign that I normally see in late October started showing up 3-4 weeks early this year. As Rob says, the does will control when breeding actually takes place, but the bucks seem to be jumping the gun a little early this year. I've seem more bucks this year than usual, but, so far they've all been little dinks. I've already passed on a lot of six points that have wandered past my stand.

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It must be a Wisconsin thing. Probabaly because of the odd weather we are having.
I do agree that the does are not in estrus yet but the past few days I have seen alot more deer activity and unusual buck behavior but it could just be the rain, snow, cold front thats moving through this weekend.
I went hunting in snow flurries this morning!!! how cool is that?:D

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Saw a 150" buck in a field with 8 does and later that night a 8 pointer in one of my fields, necks swollen already!

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Now your just getting me excited....I think my neck is starting to swell....lol. I'm not seeing the same thing in PA but I'm still hoping my scheduled time off is perfect.....it's getting exciting that is for sure. Good luck to you WI'ites, WI'ee's or WI'ors.....;)