I'm still seeing pre-rut activity. Lots of rubs and scrapes, bucks are out and about, big ones too.... Thursday morning as I was walking to where my buddy shot his 8pt, I walked up to my buddy stand and there was a giant with a doe directly under it. He spotted me from about 30 yards and took off across the field with the doe in front of him. Didn't seem to be chasing, though, no nose down, sniffin' it out stuff...
Friday morning saw more bucks in an hour than I have seen all year, every single one of them was a wallhanger except the first one that I couldn't draw on. (long story, I already posted it, it actually ended up being quite hilarious) In the hour and a half we sat out there, we saw 6 enormous bucks. I think they are starting to scope out the areas, but not doing any chasing yet.
One word of advice, RATTLE. RATTLE. RATTLE!!! Rattling is kickin' 'em up right now. Had about a 150-160 class turn on a dime from 80 yards and come into shooting range, sadly, I shot right under him at 30 yards.
