I spent quite a bit of time in the woods this weekend and things have really heated up in NW part of the state. (I hunt the Luck and Siren area).
Scrapes and rubs were popping up daily, old scrapes getting hit also, tine marks all over. Saw buck moving in daylight and called two in. One on a grunt that I saw slowly moving on a fence line, and I rattled one in to a buck decoy. Both that came in to calls were 2 1/2 year old deer. Necks were totally swollen. Local hunter also bagged a 165 class last week, and I kicked up a 145 class that was bedded off of a newly made scrape line.
We were really surprised to see all the activity that we did and it kind of caught us off guard. Really looking forward to getting back out soon.