I was just wondering if any of you KY boys have any thoughts yet about the rut. I havent got to do much hunting this year cause of a broken foot so i havent got to watch the deer movement. Hopefully them deer will still be plenty on the move when Nov 11th gets here. Also lets here if any of you have had any luck,

Sorry to hear about the foot. I think the 11th will be right at Prime Time.

Ditto about the foot. I hope that the rut is in full swing!

No worries about the foot, i may not have been able to bow hunt but i didnt let it stop me from gun huntin, istill managed totake a doe during MZ after using my crutches to get to me deer stand and still crawled up it, buti dont know if im pumped up more aboutopening day of that football game this thur, hopefully them bucks have only onething on their mind, "Doe Booty", they then become likeus after were drunk, if its a female it'll do the job, good luck boys and keep huntin,

yup opening weekend and the following weekend is when i see more movement out of deer than any other time of year...best time to be hunting. i got a doe youth weeknd, and best of luck to all yall KY hunters!!!

The rut seems to be really winding up. I have seen several deer in action and the scrapes and rubs are awesome. Hopefully it will just cool down before saturday.

I have hunted out there the past several yearsopening week and the second week of the season. WhileI saw deer on every trip, the second week was much better as far as movement.

The game warden I hunt with says the 17th seems to be the magic day. Obviously deer do not have a calendar to operate by, but that date usually seems to coincide with the photoperiod that sparks the peak movement.

If there is a cool snap I would want to be in the woods that week. While there is no bad time to hunt in Kentucky, if you are faced with limited time I would choose that second week to focus on. This season I will be in Saskatchewan, but some of my buddies will be in KY the 13th-17th. Hopefully they will not be wishing they were leaving a week later!!

oh, yeah, baby! the rut is on! not quite in full swing yet, but close enough! yesterday, we (me and my BF) saw 18 deer from our blind! 5 different bucks and the rest does! today we saw 'bout 5 deer. Lee busted one with a 243 and abalistic tip! nice 8 pt buck! (i'll post pics later)

its gettin close....the bucks are ready but the does still aren't QUITE hot. I went this last weekend and i saw 8 on friday, 7 on saturday, and8 on sunday of those 3 were bucks, and one was chasing, and one came to check out a doe saturday morning. She wasn't quite ready as he wouldn't come close enough to get a shot....but i think next weekend could be the weekend.

The buck I killed Sunday in Hardin County,I believe was chasing a doe. I just seen her running. I grunted a couple of times and about 45 minutes later I had a 12pt. 216lb on the ground. There aer pictures in the 2006 hunting contest forum in Team 12.