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Old 09-22-2004 | 08:01 PM
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has anybody been seeing any buck rubs yet? tell me where your located if you have seen some. so far i have only seen a stray but that was three weeks ago.
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Old 09-23-2004 | 05:33 AM
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i have seen 4 or 5 in the last week in schyuler county
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Old 09-23-2004 | 05:55 AM
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I haven't been out to any of my spots since August, so I couldn't tell ya. Saw a few up in Wisconsin last weekend though.
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Old 09-23-2004 | 08:40 AM
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I was out on monday just messin around and found a good line of 4 or 5 in a row. They were in a group of willow trees next to my food plot. These trees get tore up every year.
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Old 09-24-2004 | 05:59 AM
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At my Bowhunting spot in Vermillion County I found 2 rubs ( one Large Rub and a Smaller Rub )and a scrape and where the buck bedded down all within 18 yards of my Stand, farther down a funnel from my stand was another 3 good rubs
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Old 09-29-2004 | 07:16 PM
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Thats definitly good. I have yet to see rubs and my spot is in Vermilion County as well.
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Old 10-08-2004 | 08:53 AM
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i went out to james w. hawn in carlyle, it is public hunting and there are rubs everywhere. just walking through the woods, i counted 8 different spots, with 2 or more rubs. i didnt really see any sign of them being monsters, but there has to be decent animals out there considering all of the rubs.
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Old 10-08-2004 | 02:43 PM
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I am seeing several scrapes, but I still have not found a rub this season. Fayette County near Vandalia.
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Old 10-10-2004 | 01:48 PM
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I have a place in Sangamon that has a lot of big bucks and have seen one BIG buck.
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Old 10-10-2004 | 09:37 PM
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I hunt in Montgomery county. One of the farms I hunt I've seen a ton of rubs but no scrapes yet. Seen a couple younger bucks on the property. On another farm I haven't seen buck sign yet. I made a couple mock scrapes a few weeks ago and checked them this week but nothing had touched them, so I refreshened them. Haven't seen any rubs there either. But I haven't looked much either. I try to stay out of the timber as much as possible. I look for rubs and scrapes after the season, so if it's not by my stand I'm not gonna find them. But my brother-in-law spooked a 12 ptr today while mowing a field ditch that is between two farms that I hunt. So hopefully I'll get a look at him one of these weekends.
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