With the drought this year everything is a month early. The farmers have already picked ALL their corn, then beans & most all got their cotton out lastweek so the fields are bare! That means the deer head for the riverbottom for wintercover & mast crops. My place is 80% hardwood bottoms & I have 7 plots scattered thru my place as well as appx 75 acres of pasture that I let grow natural. (625 acres place) and the mast crop is early this year as well. They are "lightly" trollin across the plots but mainly they are staying in the woods & keying on the TONS of acorns in my woods. I'll literally have more deer on my place as the season progresses than it has on it right now as the guns go off in wider open areas around me & the deer seek my super thick swamp.