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It's on... Rut stories

Fluteman

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Love the stories fellas. Headed out tomorrow afternoon for my first of my 13 day hunt. Hoping to contribute a bit to this thread myself in the coming days!

Aaron, that's a dandy of a buck. Would you have stuck him if presented with the shot?
 

Jackalope

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Man...... And here I thought Saturday was going to be TOO early, may end up being late.

There is always early does, and late does, All through November with a peak in the middle.. The one thing that early doe will do is get those boys out hunting and searching..
 

Gern186

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It's still slow as shit in the NW part of the state....perfect weather but the hunting sucks. I hunted my 2 best spots last night and this morning and only came up with 2 little does and a year and a half 6pt.
 

bowhunter1023

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It's still slow as shit in the NW part of the state....perfect weather but the hunting sucks. I hunted my 2 best spots last night and this morning and only came up with 2 little does and a year and a half 6pt.

I feel your pain Chad and it makes me feel a bit better about the debacle of a weekend I just endured. I felt like Milo was in the tree with his hammer all weekend...
 

"J"

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I feel your pain Chad and it makes me feel a bit better about the debacle of a weekend I just endured. I felt like Milo was in the tree with his hammer all weekend...

Hahaha thanks Jesse I needed that hahaha.... I've had that the entire last week hahaha......
 

aholdren

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Love the stories fellas. Headed out tomorrow afternoon for my first of my 13 day hunt. Hoping to contribute a bit to this thread myself in the coming days!

Aaron, that's a dandy of a buck. Would you have stuck him if presented with the shot?

You bet. This buck got me pretty jacked up to say the least but I was supprised at his body size, he looked thiner then the picture makes him look.
 

Gordo

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Finally some rut action for me this morning. Had a little dink 4 point dogging the shit out of a yearling.

Also had a basket 8 working rubs and scrapes with two does with him.

Best news is that i saw a minimum of 7 does. Thats a great sighn.

No action till 930am. Not that i could see amyway. Could hardly see my feet till the fog cleared.
 

Buckmaster

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I went 0-4 in deer sightings last Friday 10/28 thru Sunday 10/30. I now forget what a deer actually looks like.

Back at it Thursday.
 

Boone

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I finally had a great morning in the stand after not seeing much last Friday, so don't be mad at the messenger. They have to start moving everywhere around here soon. For refernece I was in summit county, generally NE Ohio. I saw ten deer, five being smaller bucks from shooting light until I got down because I had to go to work. I had a spike wander by first, ten minutes later 3 does followed by a basket 8. After that all hell broke loose after another doe and her fawn came in. The spike came back with a basket six and a forkhorn and they nosed the doe around. The spike and fork started fighting and the six ran grunting after the doe. At the end a nice 2.5 year old eight that needs another year joined the fray. He made a scrape and a rub and then took off after the doe. I am taking off this afternoon and going back out at a different place.
Keep at it everyone and good luck!
 

hickslawns

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10 deer total so far today. I'm still perched over scrape line. Every deer checking scrapes. One decent 8 pointer.


Nice! Gotta like that! I am busting my butt to get caught up on work again so i have the later part of the week to focus on deer!