RE: Our woods has gone silent.....
In adding to Davids statement, yes we have seen a couple bucks but never the same buck twice. Len put on a drive the other day and jumped 2 bucks (included in the six we have seen) running together past me and David, now bucks don't run together during the rut, speaking of which we have seen very little evidence of it being ongoing but that could be due to the lack of deer. I did find one dead spike but it wasn't in good enough shape to determine cause of death, to far off road to have been hit but the possability of it being an unrecovered harvest from the neighboring hunters does exist. I hunted this property the last 4 days in sesession and can count the number of sightings on one hand.