2022 Rut Report. What County? Conditions?
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Everything on camera (besides a cat) is still before or after leg shooting time…. Columbiana county area.
Saw a little bump in activity last night. Had 2 decent bucks hit the scrape in the Corner Pocket. The stud 3-year old came out of the doe bedding area and proceeded to bump the does off the plot, then came back on their trail a few minutes later. That was at midnight, then he was back at 6A. At 3:45, a big 4-year old 8 that lives on the farm south of us, came into the plot to work that scrape. That was 20 minutes after a small buck ran two young does off the plot. Solid sequence of events compared to the past several days.
Big_Holla
Senior Member
Does visiting scrapes pretty regularly now.
Big_Holla
Senior Member
11:30 am. Just saw a large typical 10-12 pt, 160-170”, locked down with a lone doe in a cut corn field. She then spooked at my truck at he chased her across the field into some standing corn. Extreme western Erie County.
Had a shooter on camera right at last light yesterday. He hung around for a while and left with a doe. Small buck following in their footsteps.
Spencie
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What is this "rut" you speak of?
I just want to see a damn deer! Lol
Saw 7 different bucks in 2.5hrs last night along with a 60ish pound fawn alone. If there is a hot doe, I want to see the buck in the corn that had the other boys just hanging out in the shadows. Some of the younger bucks were in pairs. Others just lost. None with their tongue hanging out and acting rut crazed. They exited west to standing corn. I walked out to the south with cut beans and 5 does feeding without being harassed. I'm certain there are does being bred, but a bit confused as to what I saw. Couple young ones taking turns rubbing a tree. A third showed up when they left and bedded by that tree.
This morning drive Columbus to Chillicothe to Wellston then on to Athens. Only saw 2 road kill- only 1 was spike buck.
ThatBuckeyeGuy
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My cousin just called me from the stand. He had a nice 8 come in at last light chasing 3 does all around his stand for five minutes until he could get a shot and dropped him! Stark county area.
Small bucks making scrapes every 50 yards, a few nighttime pics of shooters and no chasing yet. This is in Muskingum County. Last year my notes showed much more BB activity by now. I'll be in my tree tomorrow hoping for a hot doe !
ThatBuckeyeGuy
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Alittle past 10 pm on the way to work their was a big boy right in the middle of st rt 21 in town . Almost didn't see him in time lol. I never see them on the road their until the rut kicks off so maybe it's finally picking up here in stark
Here is your current 6 45 am weather conditions in the following countys in ohio- paulding van wert mercer defiance williams. Patchy dence fog will impact rut visability from most roadways for most of the morning. Use caution when attempting to look for deer. Impacts- visability is less than one quarter mile bucks seeking chasing and locked down will not been seen unless near or on road right of ways....going to be a boring drive to work again today
All 3 shooters in one place at one time. I'm assuming they're between hot does.
Still nothing during daylight. Right at the end of legal shooting or an hour or so later. Slight cold front moving in next week. We’ll see if that stirs anything up….
Buckmaster
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I'm seeing a lot of chasing goin on @theotherfarm. I'll be setting up Sunday afternoon, then hunt that evening, which will be my first hunt of the season, then for rest of the week if needed.
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I'm thinking about hanging an anniversary banner in my woods. Maybe that'll do the trick.