I agree with you atlas, however we still have seen mature bucks out and cruising on does the last week of season consistently over the last 3 years. I will say the last 7 days of the archery season things pick upconsiderably with 1.5-2.5 year olds chasing everywhere and the occasional 3.5 popping up. Maybe I'm selfish.....but I'd love to see NY extend their archery season a week and push the shotgun season out a week. My place in northern PA is the same way, we only start to see the big boys start to really come out during daylight the last 3 days of the season or so. I'm sure this week in PA (now closed) things are really picking up. At least PA is completely closed during this phase though instead of having the bangsticks out there when it's prime. I'd also love to see PA start a week later, and close a week later for archery.