I took a few buddies up there the opener of archery deer season just to shoot grouse. That is where I usually archery hunt, but I will probably go modern somewhere closer now that I am back in school. Anyways, in all of the years that I have hunted there, I have never seen it that dry. ALL of the watering holes that I know of that hold deer (and are surrounded by grouse) were either dry or mud. I have never seen it that dry nor seen that few grouse. We did see more whitetail than usual, and we saw a lot of deer, but all does. Not a single buck in over 50 deer we spotted.

Anyways, that was the beginning of September. Hopefully you will find some nice bucks. By the way, is it combat hunting there during modern season? This was my first time back in about 3 years, and we saw only one set of archery hunters. If we were archery hunting, all three of us could have filled our tags with whitetail does if we wanted to.

Good luck!