I just finished three days of hunting in north Elmore Co., AL. The cold snap kinda shut things down un til late afternoons. Yesterday I saw a bold spike and a heavy 6 with a sticker pt, mix it up over some does. The spike was nosing 2 does and chasing them hard. The six cut him off and ran him into the woods.
Today at 4:15pm, I saw the same spike chasing hard and bellowing and grunting like a big dude. He looked small in the body and not like an old deer with very weak antlers.
My bud dropped a nice wide 8, that was in full on chase mode after a doe. The rut is on in the River Region of AL. Any bachelor groups of bucks should be split up by now or in the next day or two.