For once I have a small bit of good news...

Firstly the bad news I found out that the other side of the timber to the north is owned by somebody else and has hunters in it, So I have moved my active scrape, and it also explains why the timber seemed stressed and a little presured.

So I was out in my stand and i moved my active scrape dripper to a mock scrape about 30 yards from a real scrape in the funnel, I set up my tinks 69 and trophy buck scent bombs, by my stand tree and faced the west. I started to rattle, about 10 minets after I got up the tree, shortly after my second set of rattling I see something moving to the south, Its a buck running like a bat out of hell out of the rail road ground, and coming around the outside the funnel headed west, I hit my bleat can a few times and it stopped him and he started looking around and I waited for a little bit and watched him and then he turn and run back around the outside of the funnel again headed north east and I saw him go in at the other scrape on the north end of the alphalpah. he did not snort or flag his tail So I do not know if he knew i was there. But If he had taken a few steps into the timber I could have taken a shot, but he was 50 yards from me and there was twigs in the way because it was not a shooting lain. it was a big bodied 6 point but small antlers. That buck crossed the west end of the field in day light at a run. So I take that to be a good sign. I think, and I hope that things will pick up like every body says, but now that I dont have the timber to myself I do not know how it will work, because the other hunters are set up in a perminant stand by what looked like a bedding area.