jake1818

i hunt up in vilas county, didnt see a deer friday or this morning, but had my trail cam out and had 125 pics from 7pm-4am. also found some nice rubs and scrapes

dejager

my uncle shot a buck chaseing a doe

dusters84

I hunted Thursday night through Sunday night, and the rut is just starting to kick in imo. We saw a lot of 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 year old bucks searching for does. I saw 9 different bucks over the weekend, one of them was a 10 I think would have scored in the upper 140's but he didn't offer me a shot. As the weather cools off Thursday the action is going to be really really good. We saw a little bit of chasing but not a ton.

70boss

Lots of activity to report. Saturday 10/30:
Saw two bucks, 130 and 140 follow the same trail and check the same scrape 1.25 hours apart. 4:30 pm, 5:15 PM
Lots of does in the field grazing at dark as I walked out....

10/31....WOW

Activity all day. Witnessed a 160 plus chasing does in a hay field for 30 minutes...I was 200 yards away. Same buck chased does today nov.1 8:30 AM to 10 am same field...

Between two seasoned hunters, we saw no less than 10 different bucks in two days, ranging from 160 class down to a couple spikers. majority were 120 class or better.

gunther89

October 29 had a 125 in 4.5 year old and 135 in 2.5 year old walk in together at 8:20. They got within 40 yards and that was it. Grunted at them and they always looked at me but never would come any closer.

October 31 had a little 6 or 8 cruising across a chopped cornfield noise to the ground and passed a little 3 pointer at 10 yards and he went and started chasing a big doe out in the chopped cornfield.

Cameras showed mature bucks are moving in daylight hours.

jake1818

saturday night(oct 30) i had 3 does come in around 530 and about 15 min later had 2 decent 8s. also had a small 8pt harassing a couple does, pretty fun to watch!

larsotra

Officially Rut should be this upcoming weekend...Happy hunting Boys!!!!

Centauri

Saw a decent buck chasing a doe on the road I live on.

gunther89

Heard from cousin today that a big buck was locked down with one of the white does that is on our property. This is the same time last year she got bred as well.

70boss

Big bucks are locked with does. Smaller immature bucks are running around. Does are skittish. I've seen more bucks than does in the past few days.

The next 5-7 days should be pretty good!