I saw a friend last night at a wake and was talking to him outside afterwords.This fellow is quite a bit older than I and is a consistent big buck killer with the rifle.He was seeing and watching a buck regularly last fall prior to rifle season,10 pointer 120 class deer,which for our area is a heck of a deer.It was killed by another hunter 7 miles away in the rifle season which for us begins the third week of november.It is nothing for our bucks to roam many miles in search of doe's.Our area is mountainous,vast,low deer densities,and the buck to doe ratio is way askue.
It is very common for me to be aware of bucks that were feeding in low lying fields in the summer to be killed 4 or 5 miles away in the rifle season at way higher elevations.