I had almost the same problem in southeast VA until a week ago. I had NO pictures of bucks and wasn't seeing any either. Last week I had 2 nice 8's on the camera plus 3 or 4 other little bucks. Then I killed another 8 that I didn't have any pictures of. Just give it some time and hopefully some cold weather will come your way and they will get started. What part of Southwest VA you from? Im originally from Russell Co. myself.