Bucks are locked onto Does right now. I watched a buck guarding a bedded doe in the middle of a cut soybean field at 11:30 am this morning. A small buck was trying to get in on the action. Yesterday a friend of mine in the city had a doe and a buck bedded in her backyard inside a fenced-in enclosure. It appears as though breeding is occurring ahead of schedule, just like everything else in nature this year.