Just got some encouraging news, which plays along the lines with what Treebeard stated. I just talked to my bro in law, he lives 3 hrs N.W and says just today that he started seeing activity, and good activity, missed a beauty 8pt. his die hard friends also say that they have sat, for the last few weeks and it has been a dead zone, just like what appears we are all seeing, but now things are heating up. Another positive is that the rest of the corn is coming down adjacent to my stand. Im only two days into vacation so I am ......."re-encouraged" Treebeard, knowing what I do now and seeing it is just starting up by you, I am going with the Buck decoy. G/L!