Congrats on a nice buck Don. It's a well-known fact and corroborated by the NC wildlife folks, but I never have quite understood if rutting activity is triggered by photoperiodism, why does it begin a month or more earlier in the eastern part of NC compared to the western half the state? If the amount of daylight hitting deer retinas due to the shortening length of days is what is relevant, sunset time is changing uniformly across the state even though it will begin a few minutes earlier in the east and move westward. Any armchair biologists want to clue me in? Does this phenomenon happen in VA. or S.C.? If so, I haven't heard about it?