Originally Posted by
trmichels
With that being said, to actually locate a buck core area, follow a buck rub route as it leaves anighttinme food source, adn heas into cover, with the the rubs facing you. If the trail begins to go up hill, be alert, if it head into thick cover, be alert. it you begin to loose the trail, or it looks as if it ight lead off into seveal different directins, you areprobabliy in a bedding area, because the deer bedded inone aree based on the weather one day, and in another area based on the weather another day. If you see an abundance of rubs on 1 inch or smaller saplngs or sshrubs, - you are probably in a bedding area, or close to it.
T.R.
It makes sense when you say most rubs and scrapes are in doe-use areas (I recall the scrape part for your book I bought last fall when I couldn't figure out why I couldn't find their core areas when I found a bunch of scrapes).
That being said I have been trying to find rub-routes since reading your book and have had a very tough time. The only rub route I found was a short one that went from that "dry slough" (as seen on page 1 of this thread) with all the rubs to the south field, cutting through that island of trees. When I scouted the ridge to the north I found very few rubs along trails as you can see from the map.
Secondly since there is that cluster of rubs in that dry slough would that mean it is near their bed, or are they just rubbing in doe-use areas? My camera shows a bachelor group cutting through that slough morning and evening (except for the big buck I have been trying to find).