RE: the woods just seem dead!
Yesterday I was out from roughly 1130 til dark. Within the first 15 minutes had an 8 pointer walk within 15 yards of the stand. Saw 8 deer within the first hour, then from 3 til dark, I saw 10-15. Between 3 and dark though, there were a lot of smaller bucks (largest was a 6 pt) chasing the does all over the place. After the sunset, all you heard were the does running all through the woods each time the bucks would get close.