Rut activity in Illinois/Southern Illinois?

Are we still a couple days out, or is it lockdown?

 

I watched a monster chasing a doe around at noon yesterday. from 500 yrds I could still see his rack and it looked huge. I should mention I was sitting at kitchen table eating lunch because I had to work

 

I haven't seen much activity at all. I'll check my camera tonight and try to come up with a plan for tomorrow.

 

I had good action this week with all phases. Scrape lines, chasing, and seeking.

 

You're going to get as many different answers as replies.

Where I hunt, I'm seeing no movement after the mornings since Sunday. Cams have stopped as well. When leaving yesterday, I did see a lone 2 1/2 about 5 miles down the road, appeared to be cruising the edge of cut corn.

I'm hoping some of these does get bred and the bucks start moving again.

Where I'm at, they're locked down. 10 miles in any direction you can probably find someone saying they are still chasing hard.

 

Same here too.