Saw a lot of midday activity today. 3 smaller sized bucks came by my stand between
9am-12pm. Only saw one doe after that.... right at 5pm. I personally think the break in this stormy weather will set the precedence for the next two weeks or so. Ten Day forecast looks absolutely outstanding for deer hunting in the rut. Good luck.

i couldnt agree more

getting in the bushes tomorrow for the first time since the front / storm anything going on yall been seeing?? still seems pretty windy mid day anyway???

It's been windy right up until dark every afternoon this week. It hasn't calmed down before last shooting light once..... Typically, when it's windy, it'll settle down an hour or so before last light. I guess I'll attribute it to Sandy.....

I believe tomorrow may be my first full day sit. The temperature is down 10 degrees from last week. From what I've seen for the last two years, if chasing is just kicking off now it is a tad late compared to the last two years. I have not seen any chasing but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. I may be hunting directly over two big scrapes and a deer superhighway.

I haven't seen any chasing. Hopefully it will explode either today or tomorrow. It's only a matter of time. I hunted an oak flat a few days ago where I have witnessed chasing every year for the last 10 years. The does are there and the small bucks are there and I haven't witnessed any yet. If it's happening in my area, then it's happening at night. I'm just now starting to see scrapes in an area I always see them. Cruising and chasing, I believe, will be here in a matter of days if not hours.

I saw two small bucks and a doe while out yesterday morning. The bucks were by themselves as was the doe. I shot the doe with my Xbow. That afternoon my friend shot a big eleven pointer on the same lease. He is the dominant buck of that area as we have had many pictures of him, and was following a doe when it was shot. He was shot at 5:00pm in the hardwoods.

thanks man

I hunted Quantico on 11/2 and I saw steady deer movement from 8AM to 1:30PM I saw a total of 7 does I was very suprised but none of them had bucks chasing or even in the area I'm alittle confused becuase I even had a single doe come by and I was sure a big buck was going to be hot on her tail but nothing....

The deer seem to not be in the rut I have seen small bucks in the same stand but there just casually walking through the woods did I miss the seeking chasing phase ??

I shot a whopper 10 pt yesterday morning at 9am with the bow. Pics to come. Yesterday afternoon I hunted over an isolated clover plot. Bucks and does we're mixed in the field together. There was a little sniffing around going on but no dogging of does of any sort.