Rubs. Let's see 'em!

[Dougfirtree]

Does anyone else photograph great rubs, when you find them? I'm a sucker for a big ol' rub; the kind that makes you stop and wonder about the stud that did that... If you have any photos, I'd love to see them.

Below are the two biggest trees I've ever seen rubbed. They are right next to each other, with other rubs nearby. It's just above the only crossing in a long mountain swamp. You can see that the damage to the trees isn't all that extensive, just deep gouges from the tines slashed through the bark, but man, what kind of deer goes after trees that big!? I never found him.

 

[Wildabeest]

They tore this is aspen grove up pretty good...

 

[westbranch]

Scouted a whitetail spot earlier this winter I have been meaning to check out for a couple years. Seems promising, there were quite a few other rubs but no pics of those.

 

[Dougfirtree]

Here's a good size cedar rub; probably 8" dbh. I shot a 5.5 year old buck not far from this rub the year after I took this.

 

[Dougfirtree]

And another from this year. I found this one just before shooting a 4.5 year old buck. It's fun when you find one that is really shredded!

 

[Dougfirtree]

Scouted a whitetail spot earlier this winter I have been meaning to check out for a couple years. Seems promising, there were quite a few other rubs but no pics of those.

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Nice! I love scouting new areas and that doesn't look like it was a forky!

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Not a rub, but this time of year until snow melts the moose
bulldoze down some pretty good size aspen trees to get to the buds.
They get on their hind legs and crack the trunk down.
If its a late spring some areas look like a bulldozer has run thru an aspen stand.

 

[antlerradar]

No pictures, but back in the 80's I was hunting the Custer and came across an impressive mule deer rub on a 5 inch pine tree. I am 6 foot 2 and I was looking straight across at the top antler marks on the pine. Sure would have loved to had run into the buck that made that rub. Good bet he wasn't a three point.

 

[Mallardsx2]

 

[Dougfirtree]

Not a rub, but this time of year until snow melts the moose
bulldoze down some pretty good size aspen trees to get to the buds.
They get on their hind legs and crack the trunk down.
If its a late spring some areas look like a bulldozer has run thru an aspen stand.

That's cool! I run into trees around here that the moose sort of chew the bark off. It looks like a rub, but way up high and not shredded. I'm curious if that's a feeding behavior, or a territorial thing?

 

[Dougfirtree]

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Wow, that's high! In the northeast, we would call that a "hooking." Any smaller, branchy thing that a deer just wails on for awhile, as opposed to the rubbing of a tree trunk. Did you get him!?

 

[Bambistew]

One of the biggest whitetail rubs I've seen.

 

[MThuntr]

 

[MTLabrador]

 

[Dougfirtree]

One of the biggest whitetail rubs I've seen. View attachment 177384

That's a beauty! And it's a sign-post!

 

[Addicting]

I sure am glad this thread was started after the hacker. Nobody needs to see his rub.

 

[BAKPAKR]

With the caliber of bucks we have in my neck of the woods, you have to be pretty observant to spot rubs.

 

[Dougfirtree]

I sure am glad this thread was started after the hacker. Nobody needs to see his rub.

I knew that was coming..

 

[MarvB]

 

[Wildabeest]

I knew that was coming..

Pun intended?