Fawns still with doe's?

[Full Choke24]

Last weekend I saw alot of fawns still with mama. I thought they ran them off during the rut. If that is true is the rut late or did I miss it? I saw small bucks chasing on opening weekend. FC

[sticknstring]

It's possible they have already regrouped after breeding. A good majority of the does have already been bred. All the deer that I've been seeing have been singles. No doe/fawn groups anywhere.

[hardwater55319]

Last weekend on saturday night we had a doe come by with three fawns. We were up in Hackensach area. Have not seen any bucks of any sort. Will be going up again this weekend hopefully to see some horns.

[CatchPhotoFilet]

I seen the same thing. only 1 buck though 8ptr. I hunt around virginia area and its the worst I have seen it in a long time. The deer I did shoot was opening day and it didnt really even seem in rut?

[Realtor Boy]

Same here, we hunt just north on Milaca. I seen about 12 does in two wknds and fawns were with everyone of them, we seen 3 bucks and none of them were chasing does..

[96trigger]

Last weekend I saw two does, both with twins, then, a little later, a lone doe with a buck. There isn't one time where the does kick off the fawns, it is more staggered, some are going to get bred early and regroup, others late, and kick them off.

[harvey lee]

Seems the rut just got going last weekend in North Dakota. A late rut it seems this fall for our area. I have never in 20 years seen it this late in ND.

[KG243]

Same here, we hunt just north on Milaca. I seen about 12 does in two wknds and fawns were with everyone of them, we seen 3 bucks and none of them were chasing does..

I hunt north of Milaca too and have not seen a single deer or much for sing of the rut as far as scrapes and rubs. Whats going on? I hope to bag a deer this Friday as it is the last day I can go out because of work!

[Musky Buck]

I hunt Ottertail County and my 3 separate areas. Area 1 had 1 ground scrape, no tree rubs. Area 2 miles away had 2 tree rubs. Area 3 had about 6 tree rubs. A rough estimate most years between the 3 areas about 100+ tree rubs and maybe a dozen ground scrapes. Not sure why other than maybe there's a lot less bucks around and or they've been living in the irrigated corn and not traveling out of it much. Others in the area are all scraped and rubbed up. Was it the wet October ? Maybe the bucks in my areas found better areas to live in. I saw 1 doe in 9 days and she likely was bred already so my guess is the bucks are hanging near the largest concentration of does in the area but who knows just guessing as to what is up.