this guy needs a girlfriend

They aren't shedding velvet, are they? Why d they scrape trees like that if not shedding velvet?

Marking their territory in the rut.....They have glands in their forehead that give off a powerful oder,so they mark their areas by scraping the ground with urine and rubbing their heads on trees.....
Other deer(bucks) smell it,so they either leave or wait and fight it out....

This deer had pushed a trench out. It is rut behavior. their necks swell up from sparing with trees and other bucks.

Whitetails in the hood:


Butchering this one today. It walked in the wrong backyard

soemtimes they do it incorrectly

I cut my deer meat with pork,usually 40/60 cut..I really dislike beef fat...

And you can smell their bed room. They urinate on their scrapes and yo that smells. Maybe if you stop taking showers you will become even more of chick magnet Brad.

Yesterday I went out at prime time(moon directly overhead) about 9:30AM. To where the trees in the above photos were recently mauled.
I watched an 8 point teenager buck about 170 pounds of testosterone and fight. I grunted at him and he turned 180 degrees-twice.
The sun was coming thru the thicket and I could see him circle around my back about 70 yards away. He stopped on the way and cleaned the leaves off his scrape.
But he spent a good while looking in my direction up on the ridge.

Last night I went to the same place, 30 minutes before sun down. Right at 6:15 I heard a sappling being attacked and shaken violently. Probably one of the 15 foot poplars
making up the thicket up on the ridge. Then I could hear him advancing in the dry leaves to the same position the morning deer was peeking at me. Guessing it was the same
buck. And heard me coming in. And was protesting my presence. I was 50 yards from his scrape, down wind from it and his ridge. This time the sun was not behind him, so
I never laid eyes on him. Started hearing other deer in the direction of his scrape, guessing his girlfriends coming to socialize. They must be in season, making him an idiot
mauling the trees and bravely coming close. All the time I was hoping for his big brother to come and oust him from his throne.

Years ago I shoot a nice buck. Upon walking up on him i noticed blood all over his head. I also noticed him walking as if drunk. Walking upwind toward me and my cigarette smoke.
They just don't do that. His ears had been sliced in three places, 2-3 inches long. He had punctures in the hide covering his skull. He was basically beat to hell.

Last week I heard antlers clanking for 30 minutes a long ways away. Could not hear the dry leaves under them, but definitely that notorious sound of antlers doing battle.
Their behavior is interesting. Probably the main reason i 'hunt'. Their behavior is intriguing.

Is gingerkid taking a stab at me ?? Getting to old to smoke them high octanes Jan LOL.

And I don't think this young buck has smoking on his mind LOL.

Me and hunting buddy decided to grow our grey beards out to keep the young does away from us haha.
Wishful thinking James and Bob, wife laughing 'at' us.

So, was that buck that was scrubbing on the tree a 10 pointer? (Eastern count)

I saw him twice yesterday, about a 160-180 pound teenager 8 point, 2.5 years old. sex crazed about like you and I when we were 22 and could kick buttocks, or thought we could.
Was hunting him to see if big brother would bump him out of the saddle. He had a couple of receptive does w/him. The day they come in the big one will run him off-James waiting.

He is amusing and stupid, don't think he can see 3 feet, walks w/the wind, and unresponsive to me yelling at him. The old man is waiting while he entertains the does.