I've only killed one decent buck the first week of October in the last 6 years of bowhunting. I got lucky one day and shot a 7 pointer on October 9th one year as he was heading into feed the last 30 minutes of sunlight----other than that, I rarely see bucks before the last few days of October. I could see how one could be pretty productive if they had private property to hunt and could pattern some bucks early. That would be great but that is not realistic for me.