I have no clue as to what is going on. I have observed some strnage stuff over the past few weeks down here in southside VA. Behind my in-laws' place, the woods are tore all to pieces with sign. In an area a hair over two acres, I found 20 scrapes and literally dozens upon dozens of rubs. Unfortunatly, being in the town limits kind of puts the damper on hunting that area.<img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>
Traveling west about 15 or so miles, up around the Sutherlin area, several of us have scouted the woods, hunted the thickets, or hunted the field edges of a 100+ acre plot of land and found the grand total of 2 rubs. No scrapes. No rub lines. There have been several nice bucks spotted at various times of the day milling around the bean and wheat fields with does all around them. They all appeared oblivious to each other. It is almost like the rut has never even started in that area, although, I'm sure it has. I can't see where a mere 15 miles could make that kind of a difference.