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i agree with you to a point. looking back at my records, it generally has always started right around early november. but just 3 years ago it was just getting going during the rifle season which is toward the end the end of the month and i was still catching it during the start of the post gun hunting bow season. im no scientist, just watch how it works here in deerbrook and summitlake wisconsin. then agian, in past years, we have had some deer to watch to see how things are going. i have rubs, but no scrapes as of so far, and have yet to see a deer during daylight hrs.
plenty of bear(had 2 come up my tree so far b4 noticing me and going back down) and several wolves and a few yotes.
between there natural predetors and our manmade ones who hold a public posistion, i dont think it will be long b4 we are all hunting the same, last, deer.