RE: Theory: NJ rut earlier in season due to QDM
Having never hunted NJ (though I'm going to try to do some on the six day shotgun season) I have been talking to my father who has been hunting down there for the better part of the last two weeks. He says the bucks are going absolutely bananas down there! He has seen more bucks, more chasing, more scraps, more rubs, more everything they he has ever seen. He managed to rattle up some small bucks even. I don't have idea idea if QDM has anything to do with it, but in that little corner of NJ they are chasing hard.