Bow season is open in Wisconsin, and some big deer already have been taken. According to the reports we're hearing here at North American Whitetail, it should be a banner year overall.
If you hunt whitetails "with bow or gun" in Wisconsin, please provide us with field reports on how the rut is progressing. Are you seeing fresh rubs and/or scrapes? What about bucks chasing does? Please include the county and date"s" of your observations, so we can develop a detailed report on this year's rut.
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I hunted a stand near a scrape last evening and had four different bucks come in and work the scrape. None of them were quite what I was looking for"3, 1 1/2yr olds and 1,2 1/2". But it was still fun to watch them.
Hey RutNStrut, just want to say hi from Pepin.
Modified by KevinBrantner at 8:10 PM 10/30/2004
Hi Kevin,nice to here from someone in the same area. How is the hunting down around Pepin,it was slow for me today. I sat from 1:00 p.m. untill dark and did not see a thing,of course the high winds and rain didn't help.
have been in rusk county last few days was a t zone hunting has been slow all day today three does in mourning nothing after that. I think t zone put them nocturnal. Shined a few dandy bucks and a bear. does with fawns everywhere.
WOW... what are the odds, Robert. I'm from Hager City also.
I was on here last year reading Kevin's bowhunting updates.Thought I would check and see how things were going with everyone.I connected on a 10 pointer Wednesday at 11:45 a. m. You could see he was headin out in a doe-in- heat search. He never knew I was there. When I bleated at him when he hit a shooting lane he stopped dead though. About a 18 yard shot. He went about hundred fifty yards and was found died trying to crawl under a treetop in a ravine. I think he was the same guy I had bed down in front of me at 18 yards three weeks ago in some brush. I got him in the Bay City area. We figured he may green score in the 155 to 158 area. He field dressed out at #205. Just a perfect rack maybe around 3 inches total deductions.It will be a hunt I'll never forget! 
Hi Everybody! Me and my brothers are coming down from Mn. this weekend for the opener of WI gun season. What do all of you recommend as far as scent bombs/drag rags go for this weekend. I am unaware of where the deer are at in WI as far as the rut goes and am wondering if I use doe-in-heat scents/rattling/grunting or if I should rely on natural movement while looking for "The Big Guy"Did any of you hunt MN. gun the past few weekends? I don't consider us to be the ultimate trophy hunters but we were pretty successful....The 4 of us bagged a 10 - an 8 - a small 5 - and 2 nice does.
Good Luck to all of you this weekend!
Right now is prime rut. You cant rattle bleat grunt, everything
My brother and I are hunting some brand new land. It's outside of Antigo in Langlade county. Just about 160 acres of mature oak and maple hardwoods and also some great open land with tall grass "big time bedding and travel areas" and also some huge fields, which were soy bean this year.
Neither of us connected on a buck. My brother had a 140" 9-pointer at 20 yards but stood facing him and wouldn't give him a shot. Both of us have seen a big what would have been at least a 140" 8-pointer, but I believe it got swiped by a car. It is limping bad and only has one side of his rack, with 4 points. I wanted to get him out of the herd so bad, but haven't yet.
There is so much big buck sign around it isn't even funny. Everywhere you look on see rubs. Not just little rubs on little trees, but big rubs on big trees! Even a few real small sapplings, but they are almost knocked right over.
Once we put some time in this off season and really get to know the land, we'll have a better plan of attack for next fall.
Best of luck to everyone this late season!
the bucks have been chasing does and there are lots of fresh rubs in spencer,winathan hankins