Hey second season hunters, any rutting activity at all?

[schoolhousegrizz]

Wondering if you guys have seen any rutting activity?

 

[RG13]

We were out in 551. Absolutely no rutting that we could see.

 

[CCity65]

Nice muley buck chasing a doe relentlessly today at noon today in south central Colorado. Sis in law almost dropped the hammer on him. I think he’ll be around all week…

 

[schoolhousegrizz]

Nice muley buck chasing a doe relentlessly today at noon today in south central Colorado. Sis in law almost dropped the hammer on him. I think he’ll be around all week…

Great to hear!

 

[CCity65]

Yea, we were kinda surprised. Seems a touch early for our area…

 

[tailchasers]

Necks are swelling up and the littles are sniffing.

 

[Focoelkman]

Cold all week and righteous weather settling in - should kick it off a tad.
Good luck to all!

 

[littlebull209338]

Must be time for the rut.............my neck is swelling, my vision is a little blurred and my voice has gone up an octave. Now if I could remember WHY !

 

[tailchasers]

Must be time for the rut.............my neck is swelling, my vision is a little blurred and my voice has gone up an octave. Now if I could remember WHY !

Please, for your wife's sake of understanding your temporary delusion, take the blue pill.

 

[Elkasaurous]

Lot of rutting activity in Central Colorado. Early here as well compared to past years.

 

[Brushbuster]

Hope us guys that blew our points on 4th season aren’t too late!

 

[littlebull209338]

Oh my wife thinks I am crazy anyway so this nothing new for her. I tried sleeping on my stomach last night But got tossed out of bed by the unexpected spring..........in my dreams.

 

[CCity65]

New bucks showing up in our area today. The does have been here all summer, now the dudes are arriving. Got 2 more tags to fill. There are some dandy bucks here now, it’ll be interesting to see if we can keep from hanging tags on a couple of meet bucks, lol.

 

[AZGuy]

Hope us guys that blew our points on 4th season aren’t too late!

They will be rutting!

 

[ColoradoOak]

The ones that are left 4th season will definitely be rutting.

 

[Brushbuster]

The ones that are left 4th season will definitely be rutting.

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Well I better hope there are some left then ha

 

[JC]

Going to 10..hopefully full blown rut starts up....!!

 

[treedagain]

Not where I am. Little bucks acting up, but thats it.

 

[marley]

Still seeing all the bucks together where I hunt

 

[schoolhousegrizz]

Not where I am. Little bucks acting up, but thats it.

Where you hunting?

 

[bigharge]

I’m in 48 and I’m trying to find an elk so I haven’t been specifically targeting deer areas(of course based on the amount of elk I’ve seen, I’m not really targeting elk areas either), but as for deer I’ve seen zero signs of rutting, all does have been alone from what I could tell and smaller bucks still together.

 

[Buckbrush]

No Rutting in 3 that I saw

 

[Sako76]

A bud is hunting in Unit 13, no rutting activity and bucks are scare.

 

[street]

Not much. Only seeing little bucks

 

[Bookhead]

First signs of some rutting in whitetail this morning in Wyoming, won't be long everywhere else im sure

 

[tailchasers]

Son told me today near Rawlins he witnessed a considerable increase in rutting behavior over nite.

 

[oldmossback]

Son told me today near Rawlins he witnessed a considerable increase in rutting behavior over nite

Should be going full swing for 3rd?

 

[jims]

From what I've noticed in Colo is that mature bucks tend to hide out considerably during daylight hours in OTC elk and other units where there is considerable hunting pressure. Younger bucks may be found with does during daylight hours but mature bucks are generally a lot more cautious. In units with lower elk hunter numbers mature bucks or near private land, etc where there is less hunting pressure the mature bucks may hang out longer into daylight hours.

I believe there is a full moon or close to full moon during the 3rd season this year. If there is warm temps, full moon, crunchy snow,etc it may still be tough conditions even though the season dates are later.

With that said, I saw pretty decent rut activity starting around Oct 28 in a unit with limited elk hunters.

 

[peak2020]

Nothing here in 35/36. The hunting has been very slow.

 

[BrianID]

I saw multiple bucks acting rutty during 2nd season. Most bucks didn’t show interest in does but I did watch a couple mature bucks sniffing and following does. I watch one mature buck earlier this week that was locked onto a single doe and followed her for a couple hours.

 

[schoolhousegrizz]

Small bucks are rutting. Big bucks are most likely too, but they are not showing themselves during daylight. They seem to be close by hiding in the trees. Jumped a mature buck on the edge of a meadow where dozens of small bucks were rutting. He was by himself. Every bigger buck we have seen has been by themselves, unless they are on private.

 

[oljc]

Good Rut activity in 13 Tuesday and Wednesday big bucks chasing hard

 

[jhibbs]

Only small bucks acting a little rutty in 33. Should pick up next week especially if it gets colder. Good luck

 

[coloradoman]

The bucks here are swollen up and at least with the does now
The buck we killed yesterday was ready but I don’t think the does he was with are yet

 

[willfrye027]

They were checking doe groups in the mornings just about all of second season where we hunted in south central CO. The bigger bucks slipped back into the timber relatively soon when the realized nobody was in estrus yet, but the little guys stayed out longer sparring and sniffing around. Didn’t see any big deer messing with does in the evenings.

 

[coloradoman]

They were checking doe groups in the mornings just about all of second season where we hunted in south central CO. The bigger bucks slipped back into the timber relatively soon when the realized nobody was in estrus yet, but the little guys stayed out longer sparring and sniffing around. Didn’t see any big deer messing with does in the evenings.

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Ass kicker
Nice job!

 

[BradA]

Nothing here in 35/36. The hunting has been very slow.

You hunting second season? I have the third season tag.

 

[peak2020]

You hunting second season? I have the third season tag.

My buddy had second season. I’ve got a third season.

 

[BradA]

My buddy had second season. I’ve got a third season.

See you up there. Was your buddy successful?

 

[peak2020]

See you up there. Was your buddy successful?

Nope! He was looking for a more mature buck and never found one. He saw a handful of young deer.

 

[HIcountryman]

saw a medium 4 point lip curling, sniffing around a herd of 6 doe on saturday around 4pm. weather is not looking good for moving deer around this 3rd season in NW Co, but if you find does i think bucks will be around

 

[jvgunner]

Yes, saw one 175+ rutting hard, also a nice timber buck keeping his doe in check & waiting.