re: 12-28 ist

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Same. Its dead here. None of the mature bucks are around on camera. Not even at night. Been 9 days since the big 8 showed. Only showing a few resident does with yearlings. The scrapes must've been pre rut because they went dry. From what ive seen the last 4 years we are just about to pop off. Now until jan 10 is where i get daytime mature buck pics Just went to get down and spotted a deer 75 yds away. Now im here for a bit longer…

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Exact same thing with me. I went from several bucks on camera every day/night to nothing but a couple resident does and yearlings. I hope you’re right. I’ve been pretty discouraged the last 10 days or so. Haven’t even really been hunting.

My scrapes are all dried up too. Seems like heavy scraping was about 3-4 weeks ago. My thought is that we’re in the primary peak right now and they’re locked down. I’m hoping they’ll get back into a seeking phase over the next couple of weeks and the activity will pick back up. Then hopefully a rest/recovery/eat food phase before the end of season.