Last Saturday (Nov 6) we saw 30 does and only one buck. This Saturday (Nov 13) the tide turned.

I was in a climbing stand overlooking the convergence of three major trails in a saddle, 20 yards from a powerline cutting. At 6 am a 2.5 yr old 8 pt cruised by between me and the powerline. Easy bow shot, easier ML shot, but he just wasn't quite what I wanted.

I didn't see another deer by 9:30, which was the time I had planned to move. Just as I was reaching for my pull rope to lower my gun, I heard a deer grunting. I looked over my shoulder and there was a doe and a fawn about 25 yards away, with a buck about 10 yards behind them. The doe brought the buck right past where the 8 point had gone. This buck was a little bigger in the headgear department, but kind of odd-shaped and around 90 inches. I let them pass, and started to rattle and grunt after they crossed the powerline.

About 15 minutes later I heard another grunt, and a buck with really odd-shaped antlers came along the same route. The deer hadn't been on the main trail, so I know he was scent-trailing them. He stopped at every place the other buck had stopped, and entered the powerline clearing at exactly the same place.

The next morning my son saw an 8 (maybe the same one) and a forkhorn very near there. I was in a different stand and saw zilch.

That's part of the un-redictablity of bucks in the rut. A previously-hot area could be totally quiet one day, while a few hundred yards away there could be three or four bucks dogging the same doe.
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