Nice Rub

[paleoman]

#5937

Tried to post a minute ago don’t think it took. Anyway, found this rub on an ancient red cedar today. A few others of baseball bat size w/i a.25 mile have me mildly upbeat in an area of low deer #’s but also low pressure. I’m not a trophy hunter by any stretch but this combo always results in eye candy like this.

[Stephen Graf]

#46428

I can’t really see the rub too well, but it seems like a oddly large tree to be attractive to deer… It must be a real bruiser.

[paleoman]

#46512

Yeah. He hit it low. If you zoom in a bit you can see the bark shreds a little better. There was a scrape at the base too that doesn’t show. Don’t know if the same or several bucks rubbed this tree, but my gut tells me there’s a big boy out and about. The last 2 yrs I’ve seen thigh size stuff too.Here’s another of a few like it I found yesterday too.

[Doc Nock]

#49140

I watched a four point (crab claws on ends only) work a rub…when I left, I went to examine. Didn’t think to take a pic as it was getting dark, but that small deer with small antlers rubbed a tree thicker than my upper arm and thicker than your 2nd posting…

I’d have thought scrub bucks rubbed smaller trees. Live and learn!

[paleoman]

#49302

Ha! Crabclaw. In all my yes of hunting I never heard that but I know exactly what you mean:D

[Doc Nock]

#49304

Really?!!

That is another thing about this and related sites…brings us all together and we learn what expressions are totally local.

he was a perfect main beam with nothing but tiny pincers on the end…probably only 2″ worth of “Y”….he spent a good 12 minutes rubbing this tree…it was huge (to me) for such a dink buck!

[paleoman]

#49321

I will tell ya…I’m in it for a crabclaw now! 2 solid days in the woods and I’ve seen 1 deer. A couple more days and I have to head home. I can already taste skunk. But, I had a great Bologna sandwich high up on some sacred ground for me. If I dropped dead right there I’d have croaked happy.

[Doc Nock]

#49333

Glad you made it safe with the lousy weather. I hit State College area Friday and Saturday it was 6*F where I went to stroll about the last day of Turkey.

Snot froze in your nose with each breath! That cold last day of turkey, a magnificent 10pt walked up to me within bow range and all i had was a turkey shotgun and season wasn’t open.

Never saw anything legal once season opened…but we have a 3pt rule here now in most of PA…4pt to a side in W. PA!

Yea!

Good luck. Continued grand moments and safe travels home!

[grumpy]

#49968

Doc Nock wrote: turkey shotgun

What is that?

[Doc Nock]

#49993

grumpy wrote: [quote=Doc Nock] turkey shotgun

What is that?

LOL…Google It!:lol:

[William Warren]

#51575

If you had the time to watch you would see alot of different deer rub the same rubs. Same with scrapes.

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