I know during the peak of the rut the doe groups get pretty busted up because you have lots of individual does getting harassed or off in a thicket somewhere with a buck……I was tracking a buck a few weeks ago through a duck swamp in an area where the rut was occurring and as we were wading along the hunter said….”Hey there’s a deer laying on it’s belly right there in them palmettos 30 yards from us!”…..It wasn’t our buck though…..We’re pretty sure it was the doe the buck they shot was dogging earlier that morning and she was out in the swamp on a high spot trying to hide…..She let us walk right by her