I took a small 9 point buck that was making this rub.

I found these 3 rubs about 25 yards apart in some deep woods on my property and I just had to move my stand back by them.







Opening day of rifle season, I had a decent 11-pointer come trotting by chasing a doe and I took him at 70 yards. I'm not sure if he was the only one knifing up the tree's in the area so I'm going back out there with my bow on Dec 5th. Here is a pic of the buck I took:

CHECK MATE, you win, you have a buck to back up your trees...

First of all why would you go get a tape measure just to measure a rub? Talk about makin the deer smart. If that really is a rub the deer that made it won't be showing himself in front of you during the day.

whats a tape measure hurt?its not like its a scrape that he comes and checks every day

This buck is within a quarter mile of the rub you think he could be the culperate?

got a few rubs like this one around, all in the same hardwoods about 50 yards apart. Theres about 50 other small ones on this 100 acre property.

I too found a rub pretty similar in size this this year. Made my heart start pounding just thinking of the size of the buck that left it.

I have found rubs like those from deer as well as moose up here.. I once used a whole bottle of Indian Brand Buck Lure to try and get a big buck out. It was a long time ago and that buck came out at night and made a whole new rub. It was unbelievable the size of that rub. So I guess, all I did, was make him mad as he swam across a river right after making the rub.. I never could catch up to him in the day light hours tho...

These guys are all haters...I dunno if they all hunt where there's nothin but young bucks or what, but there are plenty of rubs like that up around here in Iowa. That's nothin more than a rub from a nice mature buck. I will say that not all big rubs aren't from big bucks...