Compound:

The rut is a couple weeks away still, but this is the best time to start seeing more bucks IMO. They are really starting to get into the swing of things. I' ve noticed in the past week, more scrapes and rubs than I' ve seen all this year. I found a scrape last Thursday that had been made probably a week or so before, judging from the leaves that had fallen into it. I checked it again saturday afternoon and it was clean as pin. I' ve got a deer camera watching it now. I think this coming weekend, I' ll try a little doe in estrous scent and some light rattling. This week and next week are about my best weeks of the season as far as buck sightings go usually. I had a young 6 point about 30 yards from my stand Saturday morning, and the base of his neck was already partially swollen.


Richie:

I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that in the northern parts of the state, any deer permits for rifle season were going to be knocked down to $7.00 a piece and will be available in unlimited quantities. As far as I know, you will be able to harvest as many doe/fawn deer as you wish during the entire rifle season, provided you keep buying tags.......


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