What are you seeing? WHat are you hearing

[hockeymjt]

With the tempertaure dropping I am sure the deer are progressing towards the rut.
I did hear some sparring last week, it was short lived and not very loud at all.

Anyone hearing anything different? Anyone hearing any grunting?
Anyone tried rattling? Grunt calling?

Anyone seen any bucs chasing yet?

The other day I did see a buc come charging out of a corn field and run across the road, he looked like he was on a mission

[Zmanzz]

I sat last Saturday night. Had a mature doe come out with twins and browse for about half hour.
Half hour after that a forky came out hound dogging her never stopped long enough to do anything. He traced her steps and ran off after her.

[Marker]

Does with no fawns, coyotes, other hunters.

[smitty55]

Not to start anything, but temps have no effect on rutting activity, hormone levels are all related to daylight hours dropping.

Cheers

[parkcity]

Not to start anything, but temps have no effect on rutting activity, hormone levels are all related to daylight hours dropping.

Cheers

YUP. With that said hunting will only be getting better from here on out so start maximizing time in the woods. temp / pressure swings just adjust deers movement during time of day. I'll still be concentrating on a few bedding area / trails that i've found - one has a real good buck in it so i may keep out of that one for a week or two.

[fratri]

Seen a couple of bucks last weekend in a field, same field I seen them 2 weeks ago.... did a little grunting....they were about 80 yds out in the bean field. Had both of them come toward me, one stopped at 40yds and freshened a scrape...The other came in to my left (lots of bush between us in that direction) and spotted me as I turned, less than 10yds away....Too much brush in the way for a shot.......... So grunting seems to be working....
Seen quite a few scrapes too.... So it looks like it is getting closer to that magic time, and with this cool weather they are more likely to move during legal light...

[Fox]

Last weekend we found one scrape and a number of rubs, seemed early but it was there, this was SW Ontario.

[marky.mark]

Seen couple does and a small buck. Buck had nose to the ground when I saw him. Much much rub and scrape yet. Going to make my mock scrape this weekend and keep the cameras rollin.

[js4fn]

Think we got the main doe last year
And have a new leader this year their bedding down in different spot different main travel trails
Their loitering around in different areas

Scraps started showing up this past Monday with cooler temps crops are coming off more deer heading into the bush

Neighbors can see my east side from their house saying they count 16-17 coming out in their bean field each evening
that area is know as the bench very productive area

It’s early deer will change their routine again and again



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[onelessarrow]

I've been seeing rubs for the last couple/three weeks and have just started seeing scrapes this week.

I'm going to put my two cents into the weather debate. As there's a pile of research on this.

There's rutting activity and then there's breeding activity. In warmer weather you will see less rubs and less scrapes, that's a fact.
Deer have their winter coats now and if its too hot, it results in less rutting activity during the day.
Scrapes and rubs are territory markings for other bucks, not doe's.
Doe's go into estrous for a 24 to 26 hour period sometime during roughly the first 2 weeks of November depending on your area. What day a doe comes into estrous varies over that 2 week period.
If it's too warm, the breeding will happen at night, "but they will still breed".
The hormone levels related to daylight hours are for doe's, not bucks. It's the estrous scent of the doe that sexually arouses the buck.
So warm weather has little effect on breeding per say, but, much more effect on rut activity(scrapes and rubs) during the day.