Early rut? Bowmar Bowhunting opens a woods-wide conversation
Josh's Iowa lease preparations accompany four new uploads, with viewers comparing deer activity across states.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Is the RUT EARLY this year? 🤯
Are other hunters seeing bucks chase does already? Bowmar Bowhunting's newest question has turned the comments into a collection of field notes, from Pennsylvania and Illinois to Quebec. Not everyone reports the same thing: viewers in Maine and Texas describe signs of activity without the chasing others are seeing.
"Is the RUT EARLY this year? 🤯" was the biggest draw among Josh and Sarah Bowmar's four new uploads, reaching roughly 90,000 views. Those accounts make an interesting conversation, not a verdict on whether the breeding season has shifted everywhere.
Josh supplies the practical companion in "Big Buck Tactics W/ Josh Bowmar". He says he went without a buck in Iowa last year, passing deer to give them another year. This time, the work starts around his blind: clearing mock scrapes, adjusting overhanging limbs and connecting deer trails. One particularly useful detail is his trail-camera positioning, covering a scrape, a trail opening and a food-plot edge from a single spot.
The other uploads turn to broadhead selection in "Which BEAST Broadhead is Right For You?" and a deer encounter titled "Holy crap that's a BIG 6 🤯". The rut question currently has the strongest daily momentum, while the earlier first-deer family upload remains another substantial source of views.
Across the channel, the week brought about 2.6 million additional views and an unchanged subscriber count. Daily viewing is a little below its usual level. Woodsbound Outdoors had a larger viewing week among nearby outdoor channels, while Mav's was quieter. For the Bowmars, the new discussion is firmly seasonal: what hunters are seeing in their own patches of woods, and how Josh is preparing his.
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What viewers say
South central IL here, I’ve been seeing lots of young bucks chasing does and a few older bucks not chasing but on the move in daylight.
@SuperM1206See it on YouTubeI live in Quebec Canada and i saw 3 bucks fighting yesterday and chasing does never saw that in mid October 😂
@BuckhorizonSee it on YouTubeDown in Texas! Bucks are checking does but not chasing yet!
@clayton1379See it on YouTube
2 more comments
Oct 17 I saw some pre rut running around this morning. Pa
@TimFrantz-s7tSee it on YouTubeI haven’t heard grunting yet but I saw a buck chasing a doe this morning!
@KiaWilson-n8xSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Bowmar Bowhunting right now
- Channel
- Bowmar Bowhunting
- Subscribers
- 2,630,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,626,688
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- October 17, 2026
- Video views so far
- 89,993
- Views on its first day
- 66,430
The numbers
Here is how Bowmar Bowhunting's week adds up.
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Which high-speed camera name appears in Bowmar Bowhunting's channel description?
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