Because I went back to school this fall, I haven't had nearly as much time to scout this year as I normally do. Yesterday was the first day I've had a chance to get out in the woods since the early season closed in September. Our late season opens again on Tuesday, so I took the Double Bull out to set it up and get it tucked away for opening day.

Anyhow, while I was setting the blind up I noticed a significant decrease in the amount of sign I normally see this time of year. I counted only five fresh scrapes and one fresh rub. This is the kind of sign I normally see while scouting in October. I don't know if its because of the warmer/wetter weather we've had recently or what, but I thought it was kind of odd.

I haven't really been surfing HNI as religiously as I normally do, but has anyone else noticed a lack of sign this year?

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2438099&mpage=1&key=&#243809 9

Its chupacabra. Hes made his way up north.

No it's the bear with mange from PA

Its just the opposite for me. I'm seeing much more. That may have to do with me learning better about where to look.

Yeah but you can't hunt there without making someone mad TX.

[:@]

I hear ya Wash. I'm expierencing the same thing here.

What I have seen is mixed. One area I hunt is going nuts with rutting activity. Never seen anything like it, the whole 200 acres smells like rutting bucks with an average of a scrape ever 20 yards along the edges of the fields. But everywhere else, and what everyone locally I have talked to say, it is below average.

Sorry TX, I didn't mean to make you mad, I wa just wondering if that was where you were seeing the sign at.