Mn Rut Report

[Mnfisher92]

Curious what everyone from Mn is seeing for rut activity?

I hunt the west metro and I've been seeing more rubs and scrapes. Haven't seen any bucks chasing. And many does are still in groups

[ChasingFLATS86]

I hunted south of mille lacs this past weekend. I seen a small buck following a doe with his nose to the ground on Friday (10 min before legal shooting light was over) then seen a nice buck and doe around 200 yards away. He wasn't pushing her hard but was following her around (between 3 and 4 in the afternoon.)

[tricospinner]

I kicked up a buck this wknd- been seeing a few more scrapes.. that’s about it

[creepingdeth]

Last Wednesday I came accross the first rubs + scrapes in SE metro...on more than one property. Witnessed smaller bucks nose to ground in a hurry. Its coming...

[Muncy]

I work for Bnsf railway and travel from Mpls to Fargo and then back the next day. Anyway, i travel thru a lot of great hunting land. I saw the biggest buck I’ve seen in years (6 yr old mature, 180 plus guessing) next to the track close to another buck. This was about 10:00am. 10/28/17. Near Buffalo state park. Lots of vehicles parked out there hunting that trip. Was jealous i wasnt in a tree instead of a locomotive. I’ve got several days off for rifle season so I’m pumped. Like how the weather and moon phase are lining up!

[Muncy]

Just want to clarify that when i said there was a lot of vehicles parked out there on the morning of the 28th i meant A stretch from St cloud thru Staples. I’ve seen o lot of deer recently on trips and more and more bucks are showing up during shooting hours.

[timberninja]

Been seeing good deer numbers in the North West, new rubs and scrapes each time I'm in the woods. Does don't seem to be being hassled too much yet. Haven't seen any real "chasing." Have a feeling its about to break loose though.

[bcarey]

(copied and pasted from my post in the main rut report thread)

Sat last night in S. central MN. 20-30mph winds and at 515pm a switch was flipped. New to this beast hunting stuff so I just went to a usual cruising spot between 3 bedding areas where I always see deer (including my biggest I've ever seen in my life @ 5 yards, two years ago to the day but thats a whole nother story.) but went in a little deeper than I normally do. Nothing from 3-515 and then I thought I heard a grunt but wasn't so sure with the wind blowing the way it was. Pretty soon I see 2 little forks heading my way and a button buck in tow. The 2 forks headed towards one of the bedding areas and the button fed along and split away from those two. 5 minutes later I see a basket racked 8, nose to the ground. Pretty soon another buck came from the same trail as the first bucks. Not long after that another buck came from the same spot as the basket rack but nothing big. 6 bucks seen between 515 and 550pm but nothing older than 2.5 yo good night overall watching them, how they move, the trails they took and where it led them to.