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deerman

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The bucks are tearing it up!
« on: November 06, 2013, 09:09:31 AM »

I was looking for a calf moose but could not ignore all the white-tail buck sign.
I hope the buck made a call to "First Call" to check for buried utilities before excavating this big scrape.  I love to see big rubs on alder trees.



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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2013, 09:20:15 AM »
Looking good.  What area are you in? I am starting to hear similar reports hoepfullly i will be out this weekend.

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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2013, 09:26:20 AM »
 These picts were taken...north of Edmonton...  I could tell you exactly where but then...you know the rest.

I am now back home near Rocky and some friends who have been hunting around hear say they have seen very few scrapes.  But they have had success rattling bucks in.


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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2013, 09:27:37 AM »
Very nice I am focusing on 248 and 336 for my cow moose hopefully things will be heating up. 

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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2013, 07:29:56 PM »
Looking good. I'm heading north Friday and hope to see a few moving. They are scraping and even chasing down south here already. I'm down 5 pine tree's at the farm in the past week (big deal when you're near Lethbridge) and watched a young buck chasing does this afternoon out west. Hope it keeps heating up!

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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2013, 08:25:02 PM »
Yup they are getting active up here, marking their ground regularly now.. Jesse and I have a day planned on Friday going to hit some of our back out and dirty holes. See if any of them big boys are ready to defend their turf..

Time to go and talk to the animals again..



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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2013, 11:53:41 AM »
I've got 6 bucks on cam working the same scrape...
One real puffy necked and some real nice bucks but all at night....

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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2013, 04:35:40 PM »
Two were sparring in the field out in front of the house this morning,, pretty sweet site to wake up to in the morning..

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Re: The bucks are tearing it up!
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2013, 07:26:03 PM »
We saw lots of action in the Hinton area but unfortunately the bucks were all moving at night. Lots of overall pressure and illegal activity on the roads (shooting out windows, killing deer in the middle of the road, shooting after legal light) which may have had the deer hanging tighter than normal too. Saw more scrapes and rubs this year than we have since before the death winter (2010-11) but we didn't connect. Still great to be out there.
Back hunting down south now, watched a 150'' class whitetail chasing does all yesterday afternoon, he wouldn't cross a fence for us but the rut is on down here (Cardston area yesterday).