ORIGINAL: crokit
Tigerhunter: Kneel down at the rub, placing your eyes about same heiight as deer's head. Look directly upwind to the furthest point you can see at that level. Go to that spot and pick a point crosswind that you can get a shot into that spot. Often, with BIG rubs, the rubs are placed in locations that the buck NEED the does to be, such as a wind transition area. They will view the rub from upwind location, and move in when they see does near the rub acting normally.
You might just intercept the buck at that upwind location.
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This rub that you found really only tells you thata buck has been there. Was there just one rub? Was there several rubs along a trail. In my book there is only one way to hunt rubs. You need to find a rub line. A rub line is a series of rubs that lead from a bedding area to a food source or from a food source to a bedding area. I prefer to hunt the rub line that is coming from the bedding area towards the food source. This will be productive in the evenings. Walk that rub line from the food source straight to the bucks "bedroom". If you spook him from his bed you've done it right. Do not worry. Hang that stand that very moment 75 yards down the trail towards the food source on the down wind side of the rub line. Give the area a day or two to cool down and then hunt the stand. The first sit in that stand is going to be your best bet. Get in there early and be ready during that last 30 min. of light. I have taken 3 P&Y bucks using this method of madness.