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what stage is the rut at in your area.
Here in Manitoba it has been weird again. Seemed to have started last week but stalled, then started again but not to full bore.
Found a very fresh rub yesterday (unusual) and still lots of does with calves around.
Even heard of a couple bucks together and all the bucks shot are very fat. Should be a "screwed" out and no fat, just yellow tallow and swollen glands.
Not typicall rutting characteristics for Nov 25.

What is your take on things.
 
Yeah the last rut is winding down here in South/Central Ontario... should make it an interesting Muzzle Loader hunt next week.
The early rut was in October the main rut fell during the gun hunt in November and the third rut has just moved from the chase period into the hide and breed stage here right now. By the first week of December I expect the bucks to be back into the feeding mode and hope to catch a Booner out in daylight putting some weight back on!
 
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what stage is the rut at in your area.
Here in Manitoba it has been weird again. Seemed to have started last week but stalled, then started again but not to full bore.
Found a very fresh rub yesterday (unusual) and still lots of does with calves around.
Even heard of a couple bucks together and all the bucks shot are very fat. Should be a "screwed" out and no fat, just yellow tallow and swollen glands.
Not typicall rutting characteristics for Nov 25.

What is your take on things.
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Where in Manitoba are you hunting? I found the bucks in the south west to be the same. Lots of fat and no swollen necks!!!
 
Started here very early in eastern Ont for only a short period.As soon as the unseasonably warm weather came the rut stopped comletely.As far as I could see the first rut here only lasted a few days.

Alot of deer weighed in our area big buck contests reported many deer with non-swollen necks.Lots of fat on the bucks taken also.Usually after the rut bucks are almost fat free.

There will be a late rut for sure here.Just in time for bow hunting.
 
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NW of Brandon

I would say they are just in the rut. The boys are following the girls. It has been a strange one thou. I am starting to believe that temp is a factor in the cycle as well.

Whether or not the bucks look as if they are in the rut I cannot say. They appear to be responding to the calls. At least they did last night.

I missed mine last night.:eek: Why I do not know?:confused: I have decided to slow up on my shooting. I appear to miss more the more confidence I have in my equipment.
 
Very warm temps for this time of the year, +12 one day. Not much happening rut wise for our crew as well. Hunt south central Manitoba, Langford Hills area. Seems to be fewer bucks around the last couple years... lot's of small stuff around though.

I myself didn't put my sights on one shootable buck! Saw everything from ruffed grouse to bull elk though!

Colder this coming week as this might pick things up.
 
Definately in the peak

of the rut right now. Some of the local farmers that I hunt with occasionally caught a 6x6 following a doe across a field shortly after lunch Saturday. All he had in mind was the doe he was following. Needless to say that he made a BIG mistake. Unfortunately it is not the group that I hunt with who have been after him for the last 3 years that got him. But he is on the ground. Hope his genes were passed on.

He rough scores 170-175.

Unfortunately no pictures.:(

The one I missed Saturday night was only interested in his girlfriend.
 
well, saturday afternoon as i was reloading some ammo i spotted a doe come into my yard followed by a 5 point buck (10 point for you eastern fellows), i watched him til dark then carried on with my reloading. then the next morning spotted a 4 point chasing a doe (around in circles like a dog chasing his tail) in the field and he only had one horn, i assume he broke one clean off.

i just watched both of these bucks as there is no sport shooting from my porch and my deep freeze is already full of elk and muley.

as of early november i was still seeing bachelor groups of whitetail bucks.
 
Weird things going on here in the eastern side of MB as well. For rifle season I've been mostly field hunting. Two weeks ago I was seeing bucks with does in the fields. Not really chasing them around, but feeding with them.

One day I'll see 6-8 animals in the field feeding, then for two days there will be nothing. Not even fresh tracks. I have been seeing a higher than normal amount of coyotes and wolfs and my guess is that they are pushing the deer around and that's why they disappear for a day or two.

With the storm warning for tonight and tomorrow I'd love to be out there today, but I'm stuck at work.
 
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