Buck Chasing Does in Southern NY
 

On Friday evening at around 6:00, I was out behind my house and saw a deer walking through a brush field about 400 yards away. I went and got my binoculars and saw it was a big doe. I also saw that there were two other does near her feeding. All of the sudden the big doe takes off running and shortly after that the two other does did. I kept watching and could see them in between the thick bushes. They kept going back and forth in big circles. I knew something was up when suddenly I saw a NICE buck on the heels of the big doe as she came through the brush for the third time. I couldnt see how many points he had but it was a good buck. The disappeared into an adjoining field and then I lost sight of them. It looks like the the rut wont be all that far off.

MIKE

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Yup I saw a buck chasing a deo to. Opening day after I hit my doe I got down and started looking for blood. I heard a buck grunt and watched a doe run away. I ran back up to my stand in enough time to watch a 6 pointer dogging the doe and grunting. They are after them. Get in your stands!!!

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last week Ihad a doe come by me (scouting) and shortly after a buck came running on her trail. Thought it was way too early for "rut" activity, so thought it was a coincidence. The other nite I was driving around and saw several deer in a field. With the binocs I saw one was a BIG buck and he was chasing deer all over the fields.

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there was some chasing going on tonight... two bucks tickling the horns friday night too

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I'm seeing similar signs, with a ton of vocalization by area bucks. In one afternoon of hunting, I heard three different grunts from three different directions, young and mature buck alike.

I'm convinced were seeing heavy pre-rut activity, but the bucks are chasing into the minor rut that some biologists claim is going to be a decent one this year.

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Seems like an awful lot of action going on for the "October Lull":D

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I got several game cam pics of 2 small bucks sparing. they went on for more than 20 minutes - on & off

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saw 6 bucks tonight..one was a button.... one spike was chasing a doe...then he sparred with another spike then a 4 ptr came in to join in on the sparrin...then 2 bucks we sparring as I was leaving...couldnt tell what they were it was too dark......it was a very fun watch tonight

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was out hunting tonight and saw a really nice 8 pt 16 or 17" wide and about 8" tines was chasing a doe and could not get him to close enough to shoot

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Saw the same thing this weekend down our camp in Steuben Co. Small buck chasing a doe all over the place. First time thatI rememberseeing them chase this week of the season. Hopefully this is just the beginning.

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A friend of my cousin's is giving me a shot at his firearms season stand next week. He tells me he saw two decent bucks sparring there last week and the week before, same 2 bucks. Can't wait to hit that spot. I think he is letting me do it because he wants to be convinced by someone to get into bowhunting. He's been toying with the idea for a few years he tells me. This is all in Orange County.

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Howdy Guys !

Their starting to push each other around and chase does out here too !

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2 guys at our camp saw bucks chasing does. Sure seems early to me too.

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Close to 25 hrs on stand still have yet to see a deer let alone anything chasing something. I take that back I've been chasing my tail for the last three days

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My brother called me this evening. He arrowed a 7pt DMU 7M, said the buck was chasing 3 doe around the woods like crazy, and finally stopped close enough for a perfect shot.
We hunt all wooded area, no farmers fields around. Our piece is surrounded by state woods that see's heavy pressure during Reg. season. We've never seen chasing this early. Heck I was just there past wknd, and only found 2 scrapes in typical scraping spots, and saw no buck rubs. This is definitly a first to be running around this early, we usually stick to food spots until Nov, before setup on buck travel routes.

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hey guys im from dutchess county but i havnt been able to hunt bow hunt yet cuz im at college up in the aadirondacks, but with this cold weather we've been havin and stuff im itchin to drive down home to go out this weekend..is the hunting relle this good?..are they relle chasin this much already?