Rubbing posts

[Stanley]

Very cool. Looks like something a guy should try.

[whitetail007]

very nice, i have a couple 8' cedar 4x4's in the garage that im going to try this with. thanks for the info and pics, seems they work quite well by the looks of your post.

[Mike]

I have used the round cedar fence posts, best is probably 3" to 4" but I tried a couple 8" that got hit but not destroyed. Also I used the split fencing with good success, as well as cedar logs with the bark on them. I like the cedar logs the least because the bark fell off and I didn't think they worked as well, they were pretty large though so that could be why too. On a 4x4 I would grind down it into a little bit of an hourglass shape at rub height.

[Edcyclopedia]

I find most of the rubs in the North East to be Poplar and hemlock/pine.

Have you experimented with others wood species?

[Mike]

Are there many cedar around there? My opinion of rubs is bucks will rub where they can, if there are few cedars around you won't find many rubs on them. To put it another way(extreme example), I find no rubs in the middle of my open food plots (cuz there are no trees) but get ~100% success getting rubs when putting a willow or cedar out. They gotta have opportunity.

I have used pine and willow. The willow got hammered, the pine was just a 2x4 that never got hit, but it was right next to our house as well.

Poplar will work I'm sure, you will have to replace it every year though probably. I have read of oak working too. IMO the key is to put it out in the open where it stands out and there are no other trees close by and the vegetation is short, like a clover plot, picked corn, even along a mowed edge.

[whitetail007]

[quote="Mike"]I have used the round cedar fence posts, best is probably 3" to 4" but I tried a couple 8" that got hit but not destroyed. Also I used the split fencing with good success, as well as cedar logs with the bark on them. I like the cedar logs the least because the bark fell off and I didn't think they worked as well, they were pretty large though so that could be why too. On a 4x4 I would grind down it into a little bit of an hourglass shape at rub height.[/quot

ill take the belt sander to them and round them some and then give it the hour glass shape in the middle. thanks

[Pullintoobs]

I am loving this idea. It certainly works. Might have to get a cedar post soon!

[dan]

bump

[Mike]

I will try to snap some pics this weekend, heading down to the property. Cut live poplar were destroyed within days when putting them in the open.

[dreaming bucks]

I forgot about this thread..... I'm going to try this, this year as well..... Great thread!!!!

[dreaming bucks]

Nice, are you putting gland scent on the posts to get them started?

No I put contrast on them using pine tar...I darken the top and bottom then leave the middle bright colored at normal rub height. I put cedar oil on the light part. That seems to be enough to draw them in, then they scent them up for me :)

Mike...
Do you think the contrast is needed to get them started? Or could a guy just put the cedar oil on, and that's it? Just wondering why the contrast would bring them in better, does it maybe make it look like it's been rubbed in the past?

[dreaming bucks]

Sorry, couldn't resist..... ha,ha

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[PK_]

Nice, are you putting gland scent on the posts to get them started?

No I put contrast on them using pine tar...I darken the top and bottom then leave the middle bright colored at normal rub height. I put cedar oil on the light part. That seems to be enough to draw them in, then they scent them up for me :)

This is great info. and cool pics thx for sharing.

[Mario]

Cool pics, I like how some of those rubbing posts are nearly rubbed down to nothing.

[MOBIGBUCKS]

Ha!!! That is really awesome Mike! That's a heck of an idea.