early breed

[2012_taco]

 A friend called me this morning as he just watched 2 different small bucks breed a doe. Within an hour a large buck showed and went off with the doe. He later bumped the doe and big buck on his way out. Is it just me or does it seem real early for the breeding phase? I know that does that don't get bred will go into heat a month later but I've never seen the breeding start this early! This was in 9F.

[BigVal]

It's always breeding season in my parts 

[covert]

Remind me to never hunt alone with BigVal...  

[NYBowhunter]

If shes ripe, theres no stopping them. So your friend actually witnessed the doe standing for those bucks or was she just being bumped?

[2012_taco]

14 hours ago, NYBowhunter said:

If shes ripe, theres no stopping them. So your friend actually witnessed the doe standing for those bucks or was she just being bumped?

I asked him the same thing and he insisted she was bred.

[NYBowhunter]

6 minutes ago, 2012_taco said:

I asked him the same thing and he insisted she was bred.

Thats pretty awesome, not many people get a chance to witness that.

[genesee_mohican]

Some does start this early. One year I watched 5 mature bucks going crazy over a doe on Oct 27th. Snort weeze, antlers crashing and all going in circles around her. They were on the other side of a flooded river or I would have made a stalk.

[NonTypical]

They come into estrus like popcorn. You'll get 1 or 2 early, then a few more will go off. Before you know it, they'll be going off like crazy. Then it will taper off as the last couple will pop. There may even be a few that don't pop, but may on the next cycle. 

With the full moon coming up next week,, I would fully expect the intensity to increase as well. 

[Buckmaster7600]

Some of my best hunting days of my life is when I was able to find a the first and last hott does in an area. It's supply and demand. When supply is down...


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[Buckstopshere]

Three of the four areas I hunt are torn up with scrapes and lots of trail cam footage of bucks and does running by, bucks panting, etc. But on one...still quiet. This year, it is going to be a nice long rut.

[GreeneHunter]

17 hours ago, 2012_taco said:

 A friend called me this morning as he just watched 2 different small bucks breed a doe. Within an hour a large buck showed and went off with the doe. He later bumped the doe and big buck on his way out. Is it just me or does it seem real early for the breeding phase? I know that does that don't get bred will go into heat a month later but I've never seen the breeding start this early! This was in 9F.

She sounds like a bit of a slut to me !   LOL