On Sunday I was out hunting the last of the "antlerless only" gun season and saw a strange(to me) sequence of events. It was about 10am and I'd already given up so was headed back to the truck.

.....when I noticed some rather large tracks on top of my tracks that I made going to my stand. What seemed odd was that this buck walked right directly in my tracks, sometimes for a hundred yards. I followed the tracks to a point where he stopped to rub a small pine sapling. This late in the season??? He also stopped twice to use the bathroom. In another 300yds he stopped againand torethe heck out of the side of a large tree leaving bark debris all over the top of the fresh fallen snow. This puzzles me even more than the pine sapling. His tracks then got mixed up with dozens others around a fallen oak where the deer were digging through the snow looking for acorns.

All of this after 9:30 I know 'cause that's when it quit snowing. Any of this odd to you guys considering the time of the year?