Originally Posted by bronko22000

Nice pics. The rut here in PA is getting very close. The younger buck are harassing the doe. I went out this morning to pull my stand in the area were I got my buck on Tuesday. I walked down the trail where the 2 scrapes were that I squirted with buck pee Tuesday. That buck was really peeved that I peed in his scrape. He had dug it up pretty good and threw dirt about 4' back. Then when coming back out I thought I heard something running away but couldn't tell for sure. But as I hit the trail with the scrapes on, there was fresh deer poop in my boot print! There are more tracks in this area then I've seen in a while. We figure it is because they started strip mining about 1/2 mile away and that has caused the deer to move out of that area and are now in a 'strange' location.
Another point of interest is that I went to check on my gut pile and there was nothing there except the stomach contents.
Now what is strange is that either that deer traveled over a mile so I could shoot him or someone was putting out feed for them. Because in addition to a lot of browse, there was some corn and potatoes (or apples-cant' be sure) in the mix. And there are no farms for at least a mile away.