Rut development

[G-Man]

Saw 1st good buck nudging does on  food plot via cell cam last evening , the one doe is a hog. He chased her quite a bit before clearing the field and coming back to feed couple of hours later..  seems to be starting , her is working a scrapes licking branch

[phade]

Weren't you anti cell cameras because you get 1,000s of pics a week?

The cold front should help that is for sure.

Edited October 15, 2021 by phade

[Cabin Fever]

I've only seen 1 rub so far and that was made yesterday (10/14). No scrapes yet, other than the ones I've made in the last couple of days...

[BowmanMike]

5 minutes ago, Cabin Fever said:

I've only seen 1 rub so far and that was made yesterday (10/14). No scrapes yet, other than the ones I've made in the last couple of days...

Hey,at least one buck started making scrapes...

[Cabin Fever]

7 minutes ago, BowmanMike said:

Hey,at least one buck started making scrapes...

Thought I'd show them how it's done, and where the correct placement should be.... ~20 yards from my stands! 

[Lawdwaz]

Somebody has to be the first….

[Cabin Fever]

51 minutes ago, Lawdwaz said:

Somebody has to be the first….

Yeah, but I feel like a sucker doing all the work for them! By the 6th scrape, I ran out of juice in the tank! Had to come home to hydrate and fill the bladder again! Not as good at rationing as I thought I was... 

[squirrelwhisperer]

Waiting for the hero pics!

[Steve D]

From the forecasters

 

[Jeremy K]

i'm getting some new bucks on camera at night , the one last night went up the hill and back down about an hour and a half later , no significant food up there but there is a saddle that doe will bed in. 

[G-Man]

7 hours ago, phade said:

Weren't you anti cell cameras because you get 1,000s of pics a week?

The cold front should help that is for sure.

I still am. Friend put this on plot he helped put in..

[WNYTRPR]

Cell cams been blowing up tonight with different bucks on a mock scrape .no shooters yet .

[WNYTRPR]

Can’t make this guy out too well.he was a ways off 

[knehrke]

Lots of scrapes opening up and little bucks starting to trail doe. Seems normal. C'mon, Mother Nature!

[Chef]

So when I hunted the Catskills I found the first week of November was always good for some chasing…. As I moved south and unit rockland last year I took off the first week of November… didn’t see any chasing till the 10th or so…. This year I’m off the 5th through the 15th


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[GreeneHunter]

I think a Cold Snap will help it along .... if one ever gets here !

[G-Man]

New Rub line is now well formed and easy to see and follow..  

[Swamp_bucks]

While I was in pa just south of Binghamton this week we found 20-30 fresh scrapes and hundreds of rubs. We did find what looked like a buck had been chasing a doe. Ground was all tore up with every tree rubbed in the area.  1 buck we saw was a 2.5 year old while scouting his neck was all swollen up.