ORIGINAL: jeremyjms06
ORIGINAL: ScottVA
and a rubline the goes from the soybean field through my peoperty to the pine thicket..or vice versa...I am not sure which way the buck was walking when he made the line..
One thing I have noticed with my trail cams is that on a rub line most of the rubs are all facing one particular direction... the buck is walking facing the rub marks so he can check them and freshen them on his way to where he is going.
hmmm interesting..so facing the rub is generally the direction the deer is traveling when he made it? very nice to know!
Will they genereally use these rublined trails over and over again? I ask because I have trails through my woods with no rubs, and some with rubs...some rubs are scattered about..and then that one trail that , the trail itself doesnt LOOK healvily used..but the rubs on the rubline next to this trail are new..I havent touched the wood on the trees, but it is still moist, and the "shavings" are still on the gound at the base of the trees, ontop of the leaves.. also on some of the saplings on this rubline, the little branches that are broken the leaves are still green and a bit moist..so the rubs are new, but whats weird is the trail itself appears not to be used that heavy...
the trails that do look to be used very heavily, have no rubs near them...so maybe those are doe trails?