I personally have had the best season of my 25 years of deer hunting. I killed a nice 15 pt. on the first day of gun season after watching numerous rutting bucks and a huge buck about 1/2 mile away. I killed a 10 pt. on FridayDec. 14thto end my bow season. He was still chasing does and rutting heavily. I have personally seen some huge bucks at the taxidermist. The rut seemed to hit perfectly at the first week of gun season. Some friends of mine own ground in Pike county and they said the number of mature bucks seemed to be down from previous years. They had some blue tongue disease over there.