Them's the good stories Thunderpole. We was right there with you. Maybe only in memories but we was there.

Don't become your own worst enemy with the rattling and grunt calls. That Doe may not be in estrus but I bet she winked at him. He may not pay much attention to you but she winds you or, spots you doing goofy stuff and she spooks to another area, he's gonna follow. I'm sure you know that and also know you're in her living room and she knows, when a strange piece of furniture suddenly shows up.

I see the area you hunt and I hate that. A foot too high and no shooting and a foot too low the deer will go.

Good luck, from your story, I'm excited to see pictures, in the near future.👍👍👍

Pulled cards this morning. One daylight doe all week. One big buck at night on the field camera. Five different bucks, three shooters, on the treehouse camera, all at night. Found two new scrapes on trails leading to the treehouse.

Dardy the buck showing any sign? I sure aint seeing it yet.

They have taken over the mock scrapes I made. Also the have laid additional scrapes every 15-30 yards in all directions from them.

Somewhat swollen necks, but not full rut looking at all.

And as goofy as it sounds, while there are some big shooters on camera, they aren’t the bruisers that typically show up +/- 5 days of Halloween.

Friday decided to hunt a stand that was out of the wind, sat all day saw 5 doe in the am, a couple more round 1:30 then round 5:30 picked up good rack moving left to right quartering away from me at about 90 yds out. Hit the grunt call and got his attention. Half circled me till he got down wind and slowly worked his way to about 45 yds out taking a few steps n then trying to catch my wind. It was a very large 10 pt who then turned back to the direction he was heading, he paid no attention to another series of grunts after. it was a little after 6 the time the show was over.

Sat in the same stand all day yesterday n saw 1 doe in the afternoon n that was it. Can't wait to sit in the rain again tomorrow!

By the time I tried calling to him she was in the corn outta sight ,hopefully they come back it was a crazy unexpected evening so dang close! I may have lost the battle but I feel like I won the war, altho I didn't kill him it still felt like a success imo, I'm fired up to call off work now lol

Thunderpole I feel the excitement.  That's great neighbor, best part of hunting as far as I'm concerned.  Good luck.
 
 
 
Dardy, I've never tried a mock scrape but I sure like messing with the ones a buck will make.  I'll find a long tree branch resembling a rake and scrape leaves and debris back over the area they clear. 
 
Now days I'll put a camera up watching the spots but in the old days, I'd use "thread" between trees to find a travel lane then tie thread across those lanes at different times to give me an idea when the deer where coming by.
 
I also trim back all the under brush at the edge of my fields leaving one low hanging branch hoping  a buck will hit on it.  Just found one such scrape this morning though it looks like it may have been just a first attempt or maybe made by a very young buck, struttin his stuff.
 
I guess time will tell but it could mean a long long time sitting in my tree swing my feet, between now and the end of the season.
 
Not seeing much activity in my fields until the weeeeee hours of the morning, but a few bucks are prowling and the doe are there so hopefully, the bucks will stay interested and forget what time of day it is. 
 
One picture does show a scrub six hanging out on the south east section of a field and this photo shows a bigger feller on a section of the field where the newly found scrape is.  Hope he comes by to present a shot before the scrub does.
 
So in closing, may I wish all yinz all and me too...… good luck.
 
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Thuderpole,he must be a giant. He son buck scored officially at 138 7/8 inches. Time for me to book,Ohio giant whitetail await me. Go Steelers 7-3 

Checked my camera’s this morning not a lot going on.. Few doe and a bunch of wet weather ... lol. But 3 Pretty active scrapes 2 probably 25 yds from stand near field , other one on the path going to my other stand ... last week so guessing this is getter done week but so far been a crazy season . Good luck y’all ... just like walking through a swamp in my area ...

Well boss man didn't say to much about me taking time off, the last 4 days look perfect cold front moving in Wednesday possibly snow they will be moving rain tomorrow so I'm going in to hang a stand for big Jim honestly I have doubts I'll see him again but I sure hope!