Looks like he'll make it....

... 'til next year....

While making a late breakfast, had the pleasure of watching him tend a doe, bed down, get up, spar with 'nother buck to impress the ladies, and then disappear into the alders with a doe.

Pretty cool.

Yup. His brother is cooler....

I hear you but from daily observation in my AO, the really big boys are pretty much nocturnal. Whilst tracking snow is a late hunt trump card, only dropping apples and pears, and the rut, will combine to reliably grant the opportunity to see 'em being Cupid stupid. I glimpsed the buck above bedded next to a doe later in the day when I was on the tractor, cleaning up after the storm. They were both chewing their cud beneath an apple tree, surrounded by a couple dozen fallen apples. He didn't stick around.

There is something special about apple and pear-finished venison....

In such matters, perspective is everything.....

You inviting any bulls or bucks in for the winter?