I was in the Sierra Madres from Friday through Sunday last week and the rain never stopped, even hailed for awhile. The weather was dreadful as we tried hunting up high but the fog was so thick we moved down in elevation. Everything is green up there and the drought definately has not effected the mountain areas in the Sierra Madres. The bulls were bugling, ecspecially on Sunday when the storm began to move out. We had a bull bugling on Saturday that was in a meadow and could't have been more than 100 yards away but we never saw him becuase the fog was so thick. We also saw some very nice mule deer north of the forest towards RAwlins, unfortunately they were on private property. Velvet is just beginning to come off. These bucks had velvet hanging off everywhere on their antlers. Probably were in the 150 class bucks.