Wisconsin whitetail rut 2025

[Gobihawk]

I bow hunt in Southwest Wisconsin. Usually October 27th, 28th, and/or 29th are good days for me. Has been really slow. Anyone in Wisconsin or states next to Wisconsin seen any active rut activity?

 

[eidsvolling]

I bow hunt in Southwest Wisconsin. Usually October 27th, 28th, and/or 29th are good days for me. Has been really slow. Anyone in Wisconsin or states next to Wisconsin seen any active rut activity?

FWIW, I am in the woods in Normanna Township north of Duluth every other day or so. I have yet to find a fresh rub this fall, and that includes walking over several deer beds on an abandoned logging railroad grade this past weekend. My trailcams have found only does. There used to be a buck in that area that I named "Godzilla"after seeing his footprint and stride. I also heard from a CO that he took a 14 out of the same area about a dozen years ago.

We usually have a trio in our yard midsummer in Duluth that I call the Three Amigos. The smallest of them is a drop tine ten, so of course he is "Drop Ten":








(OTOH, I heard a bull bellowing in Normanna about ten days ago, "so I got that going for me.")