Yeah... I'm a spot and stalk guy, would be a bad year to sit water and I don't like to sit either. I had a late rifle coues that I hunted after Christmas, super tough, no deer movement and could never turn up a mature buck so I ate the tag. Started the new year with archery, tough go with the moon, temperatures and rain. Seemed as though there was rut activity throughout the hunt in every unit I hunted but the movement was less than an hour a day. As the hunt progressed, deer movement increased, but the deer were really spread out with the abundance of green forage everywhere. By the end of the hunt bucks were rutting hard, but they were locked down on a hot doe and were tough to turn up unless it was early and they were running or chasing off other bucks. Most bucks were still in heavy cover including the buck I killed. Just happened to watch him run a smaller buck off and return to his doe, I crept in the thick crap with him and snuck an arrow in... toughest year I've had for turning up good deer, so I feel like I was fortunate to have killed. Only saw 1 really good buck, 100+, and maybe 3-4 in the 80-90" range in 22 days of hunting. Quality and population has been trending downward for the last 10 years for sure IMO...