I can certainly attest that the entire 2011 season was ROUGH! As a matter of fact; I took it as an omen going in when that freakishly early September frost (in 6A) killed my (new & experimental) buckwheat food plots. Let's just say that when it went from waist high lush and ready to seed - to bent over brown dead in one night, I spent many a day on stand wishing I'd have stuck with the turnips. Anyway, as usual and before that happened to the buckwheat - I brush hogged and mowed a few patches. So I did have a few does and dinks hanging around. But, I never did see anything bigger than the late season six point I took in the picture.