I watched an 8 pt chase a doe behind my pond this evening about 4:30, I wasn’t hunting, was watching him from the back door standing in the kitchen. I had just got in from work when my wife spotted him. About 250 yards away from the house, looked through binoculars and picked up my rifle and checked him out, antlers outside his ears, maybe 15” inside spread. That’s the first one I’ve seen show any interest in a doe, just before last light of the day, wife said there’s another deer standing behind the pond motionless, he was watching 7 does at a feeder about 50 yds from the house, looked like a small 6 pt, I think the rut fixing to bust off here.