Since there is no way a buck can travel more than about 1.5 miles in a night, before turning around and going back to it's core area, look for a core area withn 1.5 miles of an open food source. Which is where you will often find lots of rubs and scrapes, because does are feedign there, and other bucks are meeting them there.

Next, look for a lightly used trail with rubs on 1-2 inch trees - leading away from the food source, and follow it back - heading through different areas, but going toward a secure or wooded area.

Since a buck rub route is geneally only traveled in one direction, by only one deer, only one time a day, it is VERY lightly used, and may not even look like a traill, except for the rubs along it. You can often find a rub route leading away from an open area or agricultural field - at the corner, or in a gully or finger of brush or trees leading up to, or into, the field.

Hopefully you can follow this lightly used trail, by seeing rubs from as close as 5 feet to as far as 1/2 mile apart. If it has rained or there is snow on the grouned it makes it easier to see the trail. But, remember, it will lead AWAY frorm a food source.

Or you can follow a trail that leads to a food source, by waliking it backwards, with the rubs on the far side of the tree as you walk.

Do not expect to see scrapes within about 40 yards, or even more, of a bedding area.

I hope that helps.

God bless,

T.R.

This kind of turned into one of my intenet seminars didn't it?

Do you guys want me to run a few more??? If so on what topic?