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[@MikeJones-vb1me]

I’m an adult-onset hunter and just found my first real good rub tonight. It’s cool seeing those signs in real life and knowing you’re on the right track.

[@calebowens3006]

Good luck this year!!

[@MikeFree22]

Don’t trust one rub by itself. Find a run line through the woods…then find yourself a pinch point along that line. Good luck.

[@MikeJones-vb1me]

@@MikeFree22 Thanks for the tip! I've found a couple of these series of rubs through the woods, how can you tell if they are fresh or not?

[@BlakeC552]

@@MikeJones-vb1methis type of year a fresh rub should be bright still. An old rub will usually have some darkness to it. Maybe more bark growing over it some. Also look at the ground around the tree. Look for fresh bark. If barks on top of the leaves you know the rubs are from at least after the leaves fell last year.

[@MikeFree22]

@@MikeJones-vb1me Super old rubs will be dry and faded looking…fresh rubs will look much more vibrant like you just scraped the tree with a pocket knife. Fresh rubs will likely have bark shavings at the base of the tree or sapling. I personally avoid touching them as well. Mature bucks are “mostly” hitting these rubs at night….on their way to food or back to bed. I prefer hunting scrapes over rubs…but it can be done.

[@edhickman7842]

Absolutely love this video, awesome advice has me Fired up!

[@Frederick-e8d]

It would have been helpful to go out into the woods and video tapped what a rub and a scrape looks like for those new to hunting.

[@waynesly6116]

Great advice!!!!

[@jeffjames9568]

Where is greg miller , one of my favorite hunters

[@theorangevestarmy4255]

Pre rut, I hunted a prominent rub line, including some 6" cedars & Maples. I set up a hunt, 2 - 1.5 y/o bucks came in, the 4 pntr. Proceeds to maul this massive communal rub for 30 minutes... Young small bucks can & do damage to big rub trees.

[@nowayhunting]

I found a tree line between two bean fields. Probably about 20 yards wide and 300 yards long. it has I would guess 15 to 20 scrapes and 100 rubs on this tree line. Around the outer edges of the bean fields is tall grass and thickets that is almost impossible to walk through. The farmers access is the only real way of walking in. Would the tree line be a good place to put a tree stand, and where? The ends or the middle? The scrapes are about 2-3 foot in size and the rubs are on small trees, about the size of the handle end of a baseball bat. A very few are the size of the barrel end of the bat. Thanks in advance!

[@SOKYBowhunter]

My target for this year had over 10" of bone broke off in a 4 hour fight with a younger 8 at the beginning of October. Kinda broke my heart.

[@johnnymcculloch6751]

thankyou so much

[@dennistrelinski1003]

Has anyone else noticed that the day after you sit, there is new scrapes and mainly rubs by your stand. I think I’m busted and hunt a different spot for a day or 2. He knows a scent is around he doesn’t want. If it’s not a line of rubs I’ll leave. Anyone? Thanks.

[@chuckparson6712]

Scrapes are great, but they're not all the same. Some are used consistently and others are almost a one and done

[@stefanosoderi4152]

Absolutely! I have one scrape that’s opened yr round and I have a bunch that are hit once and never again ! There better when there’s several big tracks in them!

[@FISHUNTREECOUNTRY]

I LOVVVVE communal scrapes. You know, the hidden ones the size of a school bus.

[@stefanosoderi4152]

@@FISHUNTREECOUNTRY that’s awesome, mines the size of a basketball but it’s there every year and it gets used usually a nice set of tracks in it in late October

[@FISHUNTREECOUNTRY]

@@stefanosoderi4152 Octembercer

[@davidkobrick1302]

It's also changes year to year

[@treydavis-ko2np]

Aint nothing like seeing a big rub on a cedar son