What can a rub tell you?
Well guys, today I spent a few hours in my honey hole property doing a little scouting. Since I am tagged out, these woods will only get hunted on Saturdays from here out when I take my fiancé out. While scouting I was looking at some nice rub lines. I found a very heavy trail leading in from a cornfield in an area that I didn't hunt this season, the whole trail was lined with rubs and there was a nice scrape in the middle of it which now has my Cuddeback set-up over.
While looking I came upon a rub that impressed me, it was on a tree that was about three inches across but the height of the rub was what got me. From the top of the rub to the ground was 48-1/2" This wasa good bit higher than any of the other rubs that I had seen and I seem to remember hearing that a rub with a height of 45" or more was made from a "mature" buck. I was wondering if there was any merit in this or if there are just too many variables to actually tell if this rub was made by a mature buck.