cougar, bobcat or bear?

[boneaddict]

 

[7t9cobra]

Okay. They just look deeper than any buck rubs I've seen. Either way I found a lot of sign and I'm putting a tree stand in. I'm glad I spent the day hiking around. I need to invest in a game camera now.

[7t9cobra]

Here are some more pics of the area. A rub, a salmon with some nasty teeth and a weird disc shaped rock. It was just very out of place so I had to take a pic

[boneaddict]

Looks like a great day of adventure.

[deadwoodbuck]

put me down for a buck rub also...good place to put down a camera

[7t9cobra]

I'm putting one in there as soon as I can justify spending the money on one. I had a cheap one I stuck down there last year. I impatiently waited a week, hiked in only to find it quit working the moment I left it there. 

[Boss .300 winmag]

 :tup:you found a nice mature blackie rub there. Shhhhhh don't tell anyone, or where you found it. Except me as I can help you with all the ins and outs of how I can get him for you. 


Oh bye the way always look for hair samples left, even cats leave some while scratching trees usually. Cat have finer hair than deer, and obviously most bears have black hair, and bobcats claw marks are smaller than cougar.

[7t9cobra]

Haha its way up notellem cr. I didn't think to look for hair. It doesn't look very recent so I didn't check. I will do some more investigating in a week or so. I want to spend some more time scouting the area

[lewy]

Best time to scout can be just after the rut.....

[bobcat]

Could that "rock" be a fossil?

[JackOfAllTrades]

I don't know if I would rule out blacktail.......   Hard for me to guess without seeing it or getting the overall impression.  My guess would certainly be not cat

Four to six inch tree? Mature buck.

-Steve

[wadu1]

It could be bigfoot trying to get you closer for a photo shoot; LOL

[7t9cobra]

It was that gritty river bank clay that made it. Not a fossil. Would've been cool though. I should take my coworker up there. He saw samsquench himself