Still chasing?

[thephatchef]

This is only my second year out late season, so I'm not always familiar with what deer do this late in the year. I was out hunting this afternoon and saw a one sided fork horn chasing a yearling doe. Is it normal to see bucks this late still breeding the does that weren't bred during the first rut?

 

[JNRBRONC]

This is only my second year out late season, so I'm not always familiar with what deer do this late in the year. I was out hunting this afternoon and saw a one sided fork horn chasing a yearling doe. Is it normal to see bucks this late still breeding the does that weren't bred during the first rut?

I've seen it in January, as you mention, a yearling doe that wasn't old enough to come into estrous with the older deer back in November.

 

[MNbuckhunter]

Yeah, no doubt. I had a good 3 year old buck chasing a doe last year in MN on last day of season...December 31st. He was on her grunting hard and running circles around me.

 

[KPM]

I have saw several chasing during this late muzzleloader season. In fact one showed up to look at a couple of does that were already in the field and by the time I got him ranged, he left when the doe he chased to the fence turned around and left and he was gone.

 

[Sligh1]

Every year same thing. Like clock-work every night I have a couple groups of bucks sparring a little. Some younger bucks chasing some does, often fawns. I saw a "hot doe" about 2 weeks ago with a train of bucks behind. some young fawns came into heat earlier. I even had a shed buck chasing a doe last night, not hard but was interesting.

 

[Liv4Rut]

My dad saw 5 bucks on a doe on his drive to work the other morning. 3 were over 150. He claimed one was world class. Happens every year as the little ones come into heat.