I found some rubs on my father-in-laws land last weekend and set up about 50-60 yrds from were the scrapes were. To close, to far, or good? Also, I lfet my stand down there. Is it ok to leave ytour stand there?

I'm sorry. I don't hunt rubs. My contention is.....I've seen hundreds of deer in the past year, from stand......and I've never seen a deer make a rub.

Scrapes??? PLENTY of deer I've seen make scrapes.

Rubs??? None.

Jeff

Well a scrape is really just a sign a buck was there.
I've read many an article that suggest a scrape may never be touched by thedeer that started it. Does scrape too.,Ive seen it with my own eyes.
i would focus on terrain and location of your standa scrape is merely a hint that there are active deer using that trail or area.



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Goodluck
rubs are on trees scrapes are on the ground!!

The only thing rubs tell you is that a deer was once there. There is no garauntee they will ever be there again. Rub lines are another thing though, they might show you a bucks occassional travel route. Sign posts are rubs that buck return to from time to time but it might be once in a month or weeks at a time.

I like Jeff, don't hunt rubs, rubs are just a good sign that a buck was at least in the area.

im hunting in an area where theres 50 rubs withing 100 yards of each other, and about 20 scrpaes, and i havent seen one buck during the daytime, besides 3 bucks that were spooked and pushed my way once.

Well, there just went my excitment of finding the rubs, lol!

AL Hunter, you also mentioned scrapes in your post. If you found the scrapes (not scrape) in the woods (not the edge of a field), and bucks are working them, it may be a decent place.

I also wouldn't hunt a single rub, but would hunt a rub line in the early season before the rut.

Personally I don't hunt rubs really. I have hunted rub lines with limited success. But don't just look the other way with the rubs. Study them, a rub can tell alot about where (what direction) a deer was heading to or from. This can be a valuable tool in determining when the buck or bucks were there! Every little piece of info helps in the woods.

I like to set my stand in the rub tree itself, that really surprises them!

I set my stand up in a cluster of oak trees..and noticed a run after I had put the stand up. I just set up because there is a pretty good trail coming through there and there is a major bedding area to the north...