He was with another nice buck. The rut is pretty much over here.

The small bucks were still trailing bred does but these big boys were grouping back up.

The rut was early here.

This buck has been in his bed before daylight and staying until after dark all season. I'm not sure why he chose to be on his feet in the daylight that day. He didn't give me much time to observe what he was doing as he was all the sudden right on top of me (30 yards and closing) by the time I got ready to shoot he was 10 yards and had sensed something was wrong. He just froze when he sense something was wrong and I pulled the trigger.