Where's the Rut??

bing,
I was thinking the same thing. I was out all day yesterday and called in a small 1 in the morning and saw 4 doe in the afternoon.
I'm going to blame these high winds for suppressing day time movement but at this time of the yr. if there's not a hot doe in your area your screwed cause all the bucks are where the hot does are.
Got the last 3 days off so hopefully I can score.
Mike

S-10,
LMAO, The PGC is the last people I'm gonna blame for my sorry ash not seeing any deer. We gots lots of them in this here swamp land we call NW PA.
Mike

Noticed here in southern Butler Co. that there is still a lot of standing corn.  Gave up bowhunting 3 years ago, but I know that I never would see numbers of deer - and especially bucks - until the corn around where I hunted was cut.  Most farms around here seem in the past to have had the corn cut by the last or next to last week of October.  Don't know if that's the case where you hunt Bings, but it might be one possible reason.

I agree nothing too crazy....yet. I think I just have way too much anticipation and expect too much too early.  The rut is still in its early phases, and the chase should be at a max this week.  Im going to remain hopeful and keep on thinking this last week will be the best.  Best of luck to all who have not connected yet.

The heat early than the wind this week, they are chasing in west mifflin, but when the wind puts down the doe the buck will follow, the wind will die down this after noon.....Fresh tinks,fresh tampons,fresh drag rag....cant miss!!!!
Next week while we are hunting (doe??in 2B) it will be nuts!!!!!

Deer chasing all day here.  Bucks being stupid.  I missed a giant in the a.m yesterday.

tons of scrapes tons of rubs in greensburg... bucks dont act interested to any does... i see doe all the time and none are being chased...this is weird

It's here bucks necks swelling . You must be hunting in Georgia ; since tuesday I've had 6 bucks (spikes to 3&1/2yr 8pts.) come into my estrous spread . Go get em guys & gals.

Every day that I have been out the last 2 weeks I have seen or heard bucks chasing does.  Saw a 6, 7 and 8 point yesterday AM and they were all hot on a does trail.  Yesterday evening I heard grunting in thickets non-stop (between the light wind gusts) all night.  I had to get out of the stand a little early and on my way back to the truck, I saw a buck (too dark at this time to make out what it was) hot on a doe's trail.  This morning, I saw a buck dogging a doe in the grey light and he was just a little too far to see more than a flash of antler, had a small 4 pt feeding underneath me, saw a high racked 2.5 yr old 8 point on a mission (panting like a dog) who would only stop at my bleats and grunts and come no closer than 60 yds, and around 10:30am saw a 6 pt. chasing a doe through a golden rod field. 
 
Wouldn't you know it, I was trying to practice and whack a big fox squirrel that was annoying me all morning and when I shot at him, my bottom cam whacked my treestand (squirrel was slightly behind me) and my cable is now out of the cam track.  Luckily it didn't blow up on me.  Hopefully I can get a cheap bow press and try to fix it tonight or make a call to the local archery shop and see if they can help me tonight. 

No doe or much chasing going on tonight. Had 3 buck in a button, a 3 point, and a nice 8 point at 30 yrds. He either busted me when  I moved to change shooting lanes or didn't like the way the button freaked as he was standing under me when I had to move. At least I got to see a shooter. Maybe tomorrow... 
 

First time today I finally saw a buck pushing a few doe around. He was a good shooter but too far away. Filled a doe tag wednesday for some burger. A farmer told me today that a young man hunting squirrel on his property early this week was backed down by a large buck that the boy almost shot when the buck got so close he could have touched it with his gun.