My core hutning area for bow season is littered with a bunch of good scrapes that were being freshened regularly until this week; now they're just running and bumping Does and freshening scrapes occasionally. This coming week should be smoking hot. I'd say Nov. 11-19th is the heaviest rutting / breeding period; with a lesser secondary phase of breeding taking place towards the middle of Dec. At least thats from my observations here in 4F. Find the Does and You'll be into the Bucks!! This morning I had a small 3pt come through and never stopped just scent checking the scrape line and boy did he look ragged. No doubt he's just running from doe to doe hopeing to get lucky. Tommorow I'm gonna start hunting food sources for the Does and the bucks won't be far behind.