Hey HANKFA & antlergetter it sounds like the hunting is getting good in the county. You are right about the week of Thanksgiving. The big boy don't start chasing untill that time of nov. I always wait for everyone to go North and to gun hunt so I have the woods to myself for bowhunting. It seems that people come south to bow hunt now. What part of McDowell do you hunt? I hunt Big Creek Hollow aka(Gary).