ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
I tell you a place I would leave alone until the pre-rut------that pine thicket right below the cloud in the Southwestern part of the map. Wait until you have anWest/Northwest wind and hunt that bad boy about 50 yards to the east to catch bucks scent checking that pine thicket for estrus does. I would not even step foot by that bedding area until October 31st or so.
You also need to realize that he is in the South East. We don't have a "defined" rut like the north and midwest. Our deer mate from Sept. to Jan and fed.