My grandson and I picked up a couple of cameras we had out for 4 days last Saturday. There were four nice 8 points and several younger bucks in the pictures. They are still hard in rut. They look like they have lost 50 pounds or more. Active scrapes are all over the place, more than we saw in late Jan while the season was still open. I don't know what could be done to the south Bama deer herd to get the rut kicked off earlier in the year, but they will be chasing does for another month it looks like.