RUT REPORT

[Wensel]

Ok lets go, whats going on out there, anyone rattle a buck yet????

[Archerysniper]

Some of the areas I hunt are tore up with scrap lines and rub lines other properties just a few scrapes on the field edges. Tuesday I went and moved a stand and found where two bucks had been fighting. 2 weeks ago I had a young 10 pushing does down in the swamp. So it's starting to happen hopefully we get the cold snap next week the big ones should be out chasing or cruising for does around holloween.

[psepuncher]

My area always lugs behind.

I think it's because the corn feeding heathens are 5 miles up the road.?

[AuggieDawg11]

Nothing on rattling yet, but I have had a few young bucks come in on grunts and bleats.

[Archerysniper]

Get the horns ready tonight I listened to some bucks fighting not just sparring but a knock down battle for a half hour.

[96trigger]

Lots of prerut activity in my area of the southeast. Not much of a response to grunts and rattles. Not really much for serious chasing aside from the occasional small guys thinking they might get lucky. Lots of scrape and rub activity. The bucks are actively making and refreshing their scrape lines. Most of the deer movement is at night, almost all the large buck movement is at night.

[slimngrizzly]

Ive noticed more of my 3 1/2 yr old plus bucks are moving on the cameras CLOSER to shooting time!

After this weekend ITS ON! No matter the weather the time has come! Tonights full moon should trigger it! Much will change in the next 5 days.

Good luck!

[wannafish2]

I haven't had any response to any bleating, grunting or rattling....BUT, I have started to see some rubs. I agree that most of the bucks are moving during the night, however, I think it is due in part to the Full Moon we are experiencing this week. Hopefully next week it will be really getting started. Hopefully the rain either holds off or it gets colder and turns to SNOW! Good luck to all of you. This is my first year archery hunting so keep your fingers crossed for me also....

[1eyeReD]

At my spot about 45 min south of the Twin Cities, it sounded like they were beatin the crud out of eachother below my stand before light (this was on Weds). Had a spike below my tree as I watched him make a scrape and then p!ss on it. Would sure have loved to take a doe, but they were gone after the wind effed it all up. There are two different scrape lines criss-crossing my area. One line has little scrapes that look like someone took two chopsticks and ran them parallel through the dirt. The other scrape line was much larger and just has big ol footprints. Seen some rubs. Had does in that area when I walked in to my stand at approximately 5:30am. They just sorta watched and didn't spook. I'd imagine the lil buck came in there hoping to "get some". Saw a big bodied deer behind the thick stuff, but couldn't get a clear view of the head or any antlers. Exciting times. Hoping all that activity moves to shooting time. I'd say another week and we're in for business.

[drake123]

Where I am hunting its torn up. at one of my stands there are 5 rubs, and 3scrapes. We have the trail cam there and we have an a nice eight, ten, and a spike with several does. This morning a spike came into some grunting, and I am wondering what ur guys thoughts were on rattling early in the morning tommorow?? the ten is on the trail cam at about 1:45 am. any thoughts?? Thanks

[Dave S]

I was thinking it would be too early in my area for the rut to begin but the other night I had our usual doe and fawn walk through about 6:30. A half hour later, an 8 point walked within 30 feet of the house following the same line through the yard that the doe walked.

I need to get a trail cam in the yard with the wildlife that's been passing through this year.

[mnbuckhunter]

I'm in east central MN -

Two weekends ago I had a group of 4 deer, a couple young buck and a couple does, come by and dink around for a while. Rubbing trees.... the young bucks were running the does off kind of playfully chasing them, knocking antlers together, nothing serious. A few small scrapes. Last weekend I saw a lot of deer. A few doe went running by and I called in a small buck that was alone. Was doing his back leg rubbing thing and rubbing up the ground. Harvested my first doe of the season. (Feels good to have venison in the freezer.) Then went and checked out one of my other stands and there was a huge scrape on the ground. Definitely feel like they're ramping up their activity. Plus the farmers looked like they were starting to combine the corn. I'm excited for tonight!

[FLnick87]

seen a 1.5 yr old 8 last night quartering the woods like a bird dog. passed him at 15 yards. three bucks sited last night...all young

[woodman]

Found these yesterday! Sat the evening and saw nothing, but grouse. Nice evening to be in the stand, and didn't expect much due to the full moon.

[musky hunter]

Saturday being cloudy and windy before the rain I decided to get out and scout ranter than hunt. Probably hiked 2-3 miles and specifically looking for the scrapes scrapes which were so prevalent this time last year. They were hard to find. In spot after spot there was no evidence of any rutting activity or fresh rubs. Finally, I found one small scrape. It really doesn't seem to be happening yet, I hunt within the city of Superior. The DNR says this zone has 71 deer per square mile as of the their last census. I don't believe it to be anywhere near that but if it's half there still are plenty of bucks, but they haven't gotten the signal yet as near as I can tell.

[walleye365]

last nite i had a decent 8 on the heels of a doe that didnt want much to do with him, but it was good to see. On the way home standing on an edge of a corn field seen a huge ten and two does. in the woods iv only seen a few scrapes and rubs

[frogtosser]

pretty slow where I hunt. The bucks are not moving but we are seeing plenty of does. hope it starts by next weekend, I have next Monday and Tuesday off, gonna sit all day then.

[mrklean]

the bucks were fighting last night and the small buck i saw this morning had his nose to the ground the entire time i watched him

[buckx37x]

I also took off fri. expect things to pickup soon,this wknd. lots of does no bucks pestering them at all. Saw one fork munching on beans.

[walleye365]

i got thur fri off and think its goin to heat up soon.

[AuggieDawg11]

Lots of new scrapes today!

[harvey lee]

We were up to North Dakota and the rut activity has really increased. New scrapes every trip out and we saw numerous nice bucks on the move. The time is near.

[birdswacker]

Big cold front coming in Tues. That should speed things up a little?

[harvey lee]

I still believe the full rut is still about 1.5 weeks out at least but it is gearing up.

All the bucks we saw were not chasing at all.

[Cheetah]

I hunted over in Polk Co. WI on public land over the weekend.

The young bucks are rutting. Some scrape action from Thurs/Fri but not touched again over Sat/Sun. Only saw a few 1.5yo bucks, one was chasing a doe and two fawns.

Zero response to my rattling, grunt and doe bleat attempts.

[96trigger]

Stand still down in my area of the Southeast. Really nothing happening. Smaller bucks seem to be chasing, but nothing is responding well to calling. Saw a buck with does on my way home Saturday night, hard to say if he was really doing any chasing, he wasn't very big, it was pretty dark and they were in the headlights.

[Bear55]

Finding a few new rubs and scrapes but nothing to get too excited about.

[Wanderer]

I was in Crow Wing County yesterday and found lots of scrapes. New ones are showing up daily now according to friends there. I only saw three does. No bucks. No fawns.

[fire29]

I saw a 145-150 in the ditch on Sat around 7:00 pm. a little after dark, my buddy shot a 13 point, and another friend saw a dandy by his shop in the morning. I think things are starting to fire up. The weather the next two days is sapposed to be terrible, but I will be out every day after that.

[FISHINGURU]

I'm going to hunt like a machine after this weekend, everyday all day. I'm predicting the week before gun opener to be awesome for bowhunters. I'll make it out a few times this week. I've been seeing small scrapes but nothing too exciting, I don't feel it yet so I haven't even started to rattle, grunt, snort wheeze, ect, Yet.

I'm in SE MN.