ORIGINAL: moose1915
ORIGINAL: MDManiac
I feel its too late to hunt rubs, bucks make them in the early fall and then they usually dont touch them.
i'd agree the rut is on, but the part about the rubs, welll...tell that to the deer around my area! i hunt south of albany ny and i just saw 4 new rubs from my stand this morning... where i hunt i will certainly see close to a hundred more NEW rubs before the season is out, does it differ that much from area to area? what part of NY do you hunt MD?
99% of these rubs will be made during the night, so i don't put much faith in hunting over them. however, at least you KNOW theres a buck runnin around!
I hunt in Madison County, Cazenovia to be exact. Where i hunt there is an open stand of hardwoods that borders scrub apples, a swail field and a big swamp, lotsa sign in the corner of the swail where the scrub/field/hardwoods meet any little anywhere else. Sign being rubs, prolly 30 in a 50 sq yd area. Since beginning of october, nothing new. We have only been seeing bucks about 100yds north of this rub area, right where the scrubs/swamp and hardwoods meet, saw a buck 10 out of 13 times hunting that stand.
I've never had good luck hunting scrapes or rubs, but now that i think of it, ive only ever seen 2 'mature' bucks in the woods while hunting since i was 13, one was last saturday morning, sucker saw me draw [:-]
Best of luck to everyone and play the wind!