I've seena great buck from the same stand in this old apple orchard the last 2 Mondays. Real early morning on 10/27 he came to a estrous scent and on 11/3 late in the day he was chasing a doe. He was cutting her off in the orchard and flew under my stand.

I don't know how many more chances I'll have before the rut is on so tonight a hung a scent dripper with Active Scrape in it. I created a mock scrape at far edges of my clear shooting range about 12 yards away. I hung it ona good secondary run that leads across the front of my stand and then continues onto the main run thru the orchard. There are also 2 other scrapes in the orchard.

I considered hanging it over one of the other scrapes but the orchard is so difficult to hang a stand in, more so now, since the big snow damaged so many more trees.

I hope I did the right thing! I plan to hunt it again on Saturday.