IMO it is your herd adapting to the pressure that you have put on them over the last two years.... That is A LOT of sits for one chunk of land, especially land that only serves as a travel corridor and does not provide them with any of their daily needs.....[/align][/align]No matter how careful you are, outside the rut it would be awfully hard to get away with that much intrusion and expect to see 2.5+ year old bucks.... [/align][/align]Once you start hunting these other tracts, many of the questions you have pondered will start answering themselves thru new experiences.[/align]