Let me add this too.....these pattern changes and such are occurring each year pretty much on the exact same date....I'll have to go back and look but I think two years ago I had the first rub pop up on Jan 7 or 8 and started seeing the bucks show up..…….This last year it was the dame exact time frame. The good buck I killed showed back up within a day or two of when he had shown up the previous year. There's something definitive triggering it. I would just chalk it up to the does going into estrous if it weren't for bucks showing up 7-14 days ahead of time...I guess maybe there's a few strays popping off early and that's what is setting if off...I don't know.....Our peak activity typically occurs around the Jan 20-30.....