See I leave that at home, especially after I take my no-scent shower. I've been busted in my 20' stand with just a mere slight head turn. Not so much in my 22' stand.
 
BH

Ah Hah. Fella asked me tonite, " do yo prefer a blind that you set up and take down every night or one that you set up and leave there " I said the one you leave there.
 
 
 
BH

One more maybe useful tip. If you have the sky for a backdrop, try snow camo.
 
BH

Finally seeing some heavy scraping here in 2B and 2A. Little bucks are wound up. Another week boys. 

Just checked the trail camera. 160 pics...4 of turkey...
FINALLY...got pics of 3 different bucks.....small 4 pt....one of the 2 eights from a month ago.
and one new buck who's pic was blurry but looks like a real nice one....
Hope he's there Mon eve and or Tues. morning.......I'll be waiting
 
 
 

during all this my friend who was about 200 yards away didn't see a deer all morning.  also found alot of fresh scrapes and rubs while tracking the  buck

Seen a big one cruising the game lands while pheasant hunting..
 
Still not heavy activity in 2B im off to my camp on Wednesday night in Marienville.. they are running hard up there

Heard and saw my first buck running a doe Friday. Lots of little bucks cruising. Still scraping hard in SW Pa. A sign that it is not there yet. 

The rut is in full swing here up north.  Lots of bucks chasing does and seeing a lot of bucks running around by themselves with their noses to the ground lookin for a hot biotch.  

Gonna head out late this afternoon. I think it's time. Alot of new bucks showing up to the party in the Generation Scrape. Year after year after year bucks from all the land been scraping this same spot.
 
BH
 
 

Mika- hadda put scopes on everything long ago- couldn't be sure I was even close to being in the groove on the rear sight anymore with open- all fuzzy. Really miss the open sights. Tried some peeps for a while but that  didn't work either- took forever to be sure I was in the hole- lol.

Rut is going on...get out and enjoy the show....
Trail camera, 7 different bucks this past week.
Monday morning I had 4 doe in front....live decoys, no bucks
Looked over my shoulder and across the hollow a big boy stood up and moved up hill to check out a doe. Looked to be a ten, what a day to forget binocs.
Took a stroll found several rubs and scrapes.
Spotted a doe in posted property. I thought she has to have a man..... Sure as ****, 50 yards behind her was the biggest buck I have EVER seen in these parts. I will say if he's not 30" across he's not 10". G1's and G2's look to be in the 15"-18" range...Watched them for 20 minutes. He did look my way on a grunt call, but he had his girl. I did take a picture with my camera at full zoom, but his head was down.
Today, just a bay break I heard what I thought was  a hunter sneezing, but turned out to be a buck snort/ grunting. He was on a doe's****and booking. I needed them to break right and they went left. I saw another buck chasing a doe 20 minutes later. The 4 does came in and had no bucks again (I guess they aren't ready yet).
 
Took the wife out to dinner on toll 65 a nice buck rubbing on the side of the road at 3:30. After dinner went back past @ 5:15 he was still there tearing up a tree.......
 
I can't wait until my next day off.........But's not till Monday...
 
Oh, a buddy went with me on Monday and sat the opposite side of the hollow. He spooked 8 turkey on his way in. He had 8 ring necks run past him. He was only there 2 hours
 

Been seeing alot of bucks in the morning cruising. Seen 6 this morning. Afternoons have been slow for me. 
 
I passed what would have been my best buck to date Tuesday morning. He was a 8 point that snapped off his left G2 at the base making him a 7 point. As he was walking past I saw the snapped point but it wasn't until he passed through all of my shooting lanes and starting walking away did I realize that he had 6 inch brow tines and a 18 inch spread!! I was sick for the rest of the morning. 

Saw a gnarly 4 point last night shortly after 4 pm and then at 4:40, had kids on a quad and small dirt bike cruise by on the neighbors property.  They came to the property corner (4 properties meet), hoped off and went up into the adjacent land for 15 or 20 min.  Kind of killed the rest of the night for me.  No biggie, just got to roll with it.  The wind made it pretty chilly.  And for the kick in the peanuts, a buck and doe were in the briars right next to my truck.  It was too dark to see but I could smell the tarsal stink when I got by my truck and there were 2 deer for sure.
 
Should have just camped out on the top of my cap, I suppose. 
Was going to go out this AM but slept in.  Saving it so I can be out every day at least a little from tomorrow til the end.
 
Accuweather is forecasting a possible snow event/storm for us mid week next week.  That would be nice to hunt rut in SW PA with accumulating snow on the ground.  Been awhile for that.  Good luck fellas.  It's now or never.

Yes they are Eman... I saw a big boy pushing a field on Thursday evening just before dark.. He walked thru a group of does (4) smelled them then moved on to another group. Watched him disappear on the heels of a doe.
 Last night I looked into front yard and there was 4 doe. They became agitated and sure as **** here came a 7 point. He had his head forward and cocked up . Nose was flared. He pushed them in circles for a while until they all split up and ran off.
 
Not liking the wind tonight...But going to be in the tree early tomorrow..
I think Mon evening will be fantastic with the front coming in also..