I went scouting the spot i did last weekend again just to try to get the pieces to come together and I am more confused than ever now. In the picture below I have found 2 beds - probably not a mature deer but there is some rubs in there that are 3 inch trees and belly button high. The white are the trails that lead out or around the beds and the red are the rubs (the west is actually a mound much like a top of a tunnel that separates the 2 swamps the creek runs through the middle and is very wet and about knee deep on both sides except in the v (creek flow through) that breaks the mound up about calf deep say) on the mound there is a pile of rubs but it is only 20 yards end to end. The north red there is just a couple of rubs maybe 10 yards between these rubs and the bed. What I can't figure is is how these trails and rubs and beds come together so I can pick my tree and as to why - I have attached the big picture as well and I think I might have just figured it out (as I was typing but here it goes anyways):
Big Picture:
Beds and Trails:
Early season - the north west above the main lake/swamp is a game farm in which they plant crops for pheasants (sorgum, and other stuff) - soy beans are dry by mid September so they may be hitting the game farm at night for food so using the north trails as the exit route to food which would explain maybe the less amount of rubs (early season)
South trail they can have easy access to acorns (big yellow circle is a oak woods) - piles of them in which deer love more than anything and would explain maybe as to why the more rubs as acorns fall in early October and mid October which also co-insides with early staging of rut which bucks rub more - maybe?
Let me know if this could be accurate as to my thinking and if you have any better ideas as to which trail you think they use and as to why - it would be greatly appreciated. Not trying to be a pain just trying to glue the thousand pieces together.
