I think it's close here in Southern Missouri. Over the past week, I'm noticing more rubs and scrapes nearly every day. Yesterday morningI was lucky enough to arrow a decent 2.5 year old 9 point. Which was the 4th buck I saw moving through a saddle between some feeding and bedding areas frequented by does. One of my good hunting buddies actually rattled in 6 different bucks between thursday and sunday this past week, before finally connecting on a nice 6 point. My brother in law's nephew killed a 2.5 year old 8 point saturday that was full blown rutted up. His neck was fully swelled and he hadseveral fresh holes in his neck and a tear in his ear from fighting. I think possibly in the next week, some of the older mature does will start coming in. That's what it looks like here anyway.


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