I'm on board because, That happened to me this morning. Early light 7:45 two does come hopping up the trail as normal. Only blow by me down the ridge 60-75 yds from the stand. Few seconds later a big bodied 6 point running right behind in chase. Zero shot, and they never stopped and didn't come back by that morning either. Just to say though I dropped my grunt call setting up where usually I'm already grunting at shooting light, and dawn. This morning I had to remain "callless" LOL, exept rattles but not the time for rattling...

G/L!!!

 

My experience says no. When the bucks are chasing, they are going where the doe goes. And she seems to just run fast and far enought to keep ahead of the buck, without regard for where that is.

 

i would assume this would mean that the doe isn't receptive or 'ready' right?

 

Sit and wait is the only chance you have . Usually the doe will be chased enough that at some point she will run him close enough to you , but then again sometimes not. That's huntin .

 

Subscribed same thing happened to me this morning as well 3 does and a buck chasing the does across the field and were wayyy out of range (75-100 yards) and the does just a kept on a running....wish i could've been able to get them does to come in.


:up::up: Just curious why is it not the time to rattle?

thanks, Eric

 

Do not grab your bow and get ready and they will zip right on in every time. Take your arrow off the rest and put back in your quiver and two bucks will come in chasing the doe...take the release off and one will be a booner.

 

Lol, ain't that the truth!

 

This is why in reality the chasing phase sucks for a bow hunter. Its why the seeking phase is much better but the good thing is the bucks are moving during day light and there is that chance that she will bring him by you. And you better be ready to yell very loud if you plan on stopping a buck chasing a doe.

 

Are you seeing the chasing in the same places?

I have 2 sets that when I see chasing anywhere I get down and head to one of them as they will always end up coming by that stand. I found the two spots sitting there and watching them run by the same spots over and over and over again year after year. I finally said F* it and put a stand up in these two spots. I have shot one buck, had some ground shrinkage but he was still a 125" 10 chasing one by.

 

Sometimes rattling and grunting will actually call the does to you. It seems like they want the bucks to fight over them. Ive seen it happen more than once.

 

Do doe grunts and bleats, does will respond to that better. I also grunted at my buck the other day he had his head down and he looked but started going up the hill then I quickly hit the doe bleat and he came running in. Good luck.

 

Just let things happen...you never know what is lurking watching this action in the background, so try to keep your eyes everywhere instead of just on the activity, and I know that's harder than it seems. Try to see if you can see any signs of the doe actually being in or close to heat. If she is there's nothing you can do. If she's not, then you can call/rattle and have a chance of actually pulling the buck off her.

 

Thursday morning I had a doe run past about 50 yards away, 20 yards behind her came a big buck on the run and grunting. I had no idea what to do, so just watched them run by and out of sight. A few minutes later a smaller buck came walking along their trail with nose to the ground. I used doe bleats and it brought him off their trail and closer to me, he passed within 25 yards, but too brushy to shoot. About an hour later the doe and big buck came walking slowly back to me eating along the way, but he was still 20 yards behind her. She crossed through one of my shooting lanes, and as I was getting ready for him to follow, she bedded down! He bedded too, but did so in thick brush before reaching my shooting lane. They bedded at 12:30, and I had to go at 1:00. I hunt on the ground and decided my only chance was calling to them. First I tried buck grunts, no response, doe kept on chewing her cud, couldn't see the buck because of thick brush. Tried soft doe grunts, no response. Tried "the can" for estrous doe bleat, doe stood up and stomped her foot, still couldn't see the buck. I hoped she would walk away to my left, pulling the buck across my lane. Instead she crossed back the lane to him and they walked away.
Friday morning in a different spot I had a buck running after a doe for a few minutes, they came close to me once, but were always running and never in a shooting lane. He was a big buck too. Fun to see big deer and that kind of action.