Roe Rut 2015!

[Luke.243]

I have been out in West Sussex, Surrey 4x in 5 days. 3 dawn trips. 3 roe bucks shot. 1 missed. Does are with kids. It is too cold for the deer. Go away wind. Calls not working. All bar the smallest bucks are staying under cover. Stubble not attracting them. Small sheltered paddocks are best. Weird. Unpredictable. I love it. Mrs Ahern less keen after another 3.45am get up. I want heat, flies, humidity then we get a rut!

 

[Fursty Ferret]

Shot a buck this afternoon that came to the call like he was possesed.
Spotted him at around 150yrds.....gave it a cheeky squeek to see how he would react and that was all she wrote as they say!

 

[Erik Hamburger]

Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Wednesday the 29th. July 2015, PM: I tried three different known good locations, careful approach into the wind, but no response to the calls at all. Got soaked by a heavy shower at the start, rain NOT predicted by two different forecasters. Can I download a complaint form? Quite cold, overcast, gentle wind, heavy showers. Spotted one yearling Roe doe. Nothing shot.

 

[NickJ]

NNE Lancashire, chasing last weekend then 12 degrees wind and rain has slowed things right down. This week I have seen three does without an accompanying buck.

Last night no response to call but at least an old boy I shot was with a doe (albeit not behaving amorously.) Hoping today's warmer weather brings it back on.

 

[john.g]

was up at Durris area yesterday, saw 5 doe's 1 with 2 followers and 1 buck, tried calling him in, all he did was lift his head a few times and continue feeding. tried the call in different areas with no luck.

 

[Erik Hamburger]

Gloucerstershire, Cheltenham, Thursday the 30th. July 2015, PM. Woodland with known population of Roe and Muntjac. Accompanied by my son a Zoologist and expert game tracker with young sharp eyes, and the Thermal viewer to help us along. We have seen absolutely nothing, no deer, not even one. In a woodland I know very well, where I cull some 20 p.a. and where I usually see at least 3-5 deer every time I go, even under averse conditions. Maybe the moonlight was too bright?

 

[NigelM]

I was in Suffolk last night, saw no Does, two Bucks, neither of whom were interested in the call. Managed to knock one over anyway though, so not a waste of time.

 

[Mungo]

Midlothian, last night.

Warm(ish), sunny evening. Sat and watched two separate does feeding for over an hour each. No sign of a buck, no bucks coming to the call.

Seen 20 odd does in the last 2 weeks (obviously some will be the same one seen multiple times), and only a single (now deceased) very small yearling buck. WTF?

 

[sinbad]

I hope they are moving about in galloway tomorrow. LOL

 

[AlasdairM]

Seen 20 odd does in the last 2 weeks (obviously some will be the same one seen multiple times), and only a single (now deceased) very small yearling buck. WTF?

I have found the same here. Have been out with someone I am mentoring three times in the last week and have averaged seeing 25 does per night and only single buck at distance who was gone by the time we had got around to where he was.

 

[Luke.243]

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[User00003]

Weather just too cold, I suspect it will be a mid-August rut this year and short too. Of course that will overrun with my holidays so I will probably miss the action again this year! Thank god I haven't spent £26 on a buttollo to only use it in the car when bored and wanting to practice! Lol

 

[moonstone gsp]

In Newton Stewart on Wednesday. Only saw a hind and a doe. Too cold and windy. Driving back at 5 yesterday morning saw 2 does and a kid on a field near to the Galloway smoke house and a lovely buck in a Field next to the A75 near castle Douglas . Just guess it's too cold.

 

[NickJ]

Yesterday 11.15am saw the first proper bit of chasing here in NNE Lancs. We went to the area they were seen, 2 minutes calling on the Buttolo and a mature cull buck came in hard, hopped a stock fence and I had to give a bark to stop him at 30 yards where he fell to my guest's rifle. Pressure off as he's the landowners son and I had shot an old six pointer the night before! (no response to call)

 

[Shootgun]

Finally the rut kicked off in Surrey, managed to call two cull bucks with a Hubertus, 10.30 am and 12.10 pm. They're both in my freezer now

 

[rosco]

Ruts started here in mid devon, shot this old beast which responded well to the buttalo,

 

[swatty]

Its kicking of here South lakes shot a buck last night shortly after he had covered a doe

 

[goathunter1]

Well, nothing much in Perthshire, or not on my bits. Shot a poor buck on Thursday evening wandering about on his own. Never saw anything else. This morning spent quite a while watching two does, in different bits, just enjoying the sun. Saw another four. No sign of any suitors sniffing around. Now peeing with rain so I won't be braving the morning.

 

[swatty]

Just got in from walking the dogs watched a buck chasing a doe around a field of oats for a good ten mins had the buttalo with me he certainly wouldn't leave her side

 

[Cris]

Hmm all the first activity I sa2 in West Berks was over a week ago. Out tonight and all very very quiet to the point I got the feeling it was over. The only buck I encountered was couched up deep in bracken meters from a very trampled wheat field.