In my opinion, I would say it was a little wierd, but not unheard of by all means. We are seeing the deer here in Ga seems to be in the rut. I think with us, we haev had a very early cold spell and that got them into I think. Alotof people talk about the moon phases and everything playing part. I have always seen they go in rut in the early season if it is very cold, like now. If they are in rut here, thent he2nd rut would b e in Novemeber (late)

But on that note, if he smelled musky, you can pretty much bet they are in rut, was his neck swollen.

I did that a few ears back. It was the funniest thing. I saw a doe, popped her and then looked up, there was a doe still standing, so I thouht I had missed, she was looking towards me, so I shot again and got here, this was all in the same minutes. When I got down, there were 2 does on the ground....lol