Forst off congrats on the buck, second, I grew up in Malone about as far north in NY you can get and hunting up there all my life I can tell you that the bucks tyically come into Rut a little later in the big woods, usually the Thanksgiving week or even after is when we see the most Rut activity, now living in the Rochester area the rut is in full swing now a couple weeks earlier, my guess is do to deer densities