Accurate Rub vs Buck Size
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Accurate Rub vs Buck Size
Well I have no idea how to post pictures here, plus my iphone will not connect to my laptop for some reason so I cannot upload them to my PC.. Anyways I found a rub as well as a bedding area while hunting that was impressive to say the least. The rub started at my thigh and ended up at my neck. Now I'm 5'11 and this was a larger tree that couldn't have been pushed over. I understand "the bigger the rub the bigger the buck" but this is the biggest rub I've come across and I'd like to mentally prepare myself before a possible encounter with this toad.
Can y'all shed some light? How big of a deer makes rubs 5 1/2 feet off of the ground?
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Can y'all shed some light? How big of a deer makes rubs 5 1/2 feet off of the ground?
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Re: Accurate Rub vs Buck Size
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Here's the link to AT where I managed to get a picture up.
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2359221
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2359221
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Looks kinda odd that the branches to the sides aren't scarred up. I would expect at that height his tines would have to hit them but its hard to tell from that pic. Was their any gouging in the wood
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I'm beginning to believe that it was a porcupine or some other animal that happened to tear this tree up right in-between a rub line....
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Re: Accurate Rub vs Buck Size
Sometimes I've seen trees like that lose thier bark in a similar manner. Not sure if it's a disease or what.
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Somebody post those pics please, I am not logging into AT to look at them
If the rub ended at your neck thats 5' off the ground....makes me think it was something else. I have never seen a rub go that high and the deer you have are probably smaller bodied...
If the rub ended at your neck thats 5' off the ground....makes me think it was something else. I have never seen a rub go that high and the deer you have are probably smaller bodied...
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JoeRE wrote:Somebody post those pics please, I am not logging into AT to look at them
Yea same here please.
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X3 on AT site and someone reposting pic here
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I have seen this type of damage to trees before. Definitely not a rub IMO, looks like the work of insects to me:
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I also noticed there was not a single shred at the base of the tree, leads me to think not from a whitetail
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The damaged trees that I have seen like this had long, thin marks on the exposed area that looked like tine marks. But upon further inspection, it looked more like the path of an insect or beetle or something.
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JakeJD wrote:I have seen this type of damage to trees before. Definitely not a rub IMO, looks like the work of insects to me:
I have watched porcupines do that. Any in your area?
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Thanks for posting the pic Jake.
Yea I don't know for sure what did that but it wasn't a buck rubbing his antlers. Maybe porcupine, maybe insects, I have seen deer strip bark from trees like that to eat (mostly elm, sumac) but only when they are hungry and yarded up in the winter.
Yea I don't know for sure what did that but it wasn't a buck rubbing his antlers. Maybe porcupine, maybe insects, I have seen deer strip bark from trees like that to eat (mostly elm, sumac) but only when they are hungry and yarded up in the winter.
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