If we would have done that we would see a much more uniform rut across the state with more herds seeing your typical 2 week peak……As it is now though, we’ve created lots and lots of these intermingling zones between bubbles where this “variance” occurs. Having an early Jan bubble next to a late Jan bubble next to a November bubble created by our restocking, creates lots of zones across the state where bucks are trying to actively breed does for much longer time frames than the normal two week time period……This is also why other folks report seeing well defined ruts occurring at the same time each year…..It just depends on where you fall out……THIS ^^^^ in addition to no age structure are the main drivers of “run down bucks” in our state. There’s not a whole lot we can do at this point about how we restocked it