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Author Topic: Looks like the rut is still on  (Read 838 times)

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Offline deadeye

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I went to the land to try a little bow hunting this morning (Sunday November 24th). Didn't shoot anything but had a great time. I did have the safety off and crosshairs on 5 deer but didn't pull the trigger. I saw 7 deer including 4 bucks. Two decent bucks were trailing/chasing does, one little buck just passed by, and one big boy was motoring by in the brush with his nose to the ground. I planned to shoot a doe if there was no buck present, but both times a doe was shootable, there was a buck there as well. Of course, the little buck just sauntered by while the big one never gave me a shot opportunity. One other doe was up wind of me, running around snorting but I don't know what she was all hyped up about.   
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Online Steve-o

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DE,  What do you think about this...

On Nov 8 (bow hunt) I was watching 6 doe (musta been most every dang deer in Cass County, :bonk: but I digress) feeding up a hill.  After a bit I saw the tail of a seventh deer back in the brush that came in from a different direction.  It seemed bigger, but I never got a better look at it.  Suddenly the matriarchal doe of my little herd starts getting all agitated, snorts a couple of times, leads her 5 girls over the top of the hill, and starts snorting some more - like 15-20 times in a row, and then the whole group moved farther away.  I think the 7th deer followed, but it took a circuitous route and again, I never saw it. 

I told my buddy about it and he said how he'd seen a doe being chased by a buck, wasn't having nothin of him, and she exhibited that same snorting behavior.  I was thinking that might have been what happened to me.  Could the same thing have happened to your doe?  :scratch: Maybe she was done breeding but there was a buck in the area who wasn't done for the season.  :confused:

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Steve-o,
Sounds very similar to what I witnessed last Sunday. I know shed didn't smell me and I doubt she saw me because she came closer several times and never boogied out of the area.
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