collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Rubs  (Read 4824 times)

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50514
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Rubs
« on: March 03, 2012, 04:32:53 PM »
I have seen a million rubs and I love everyone of them.   I never photograph them as they seem so boring on "film"   This one had something for reference though........  Moose rub by the way.


Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50514
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Rubs
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2012, 04:35:49 PM »

Offline 92xj

  • Trade Count: (+26)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2009
  • Posts: 4070
  • Location: Out of Place
  • Kill 'em
Re: Rubs
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2012, 04:54:00 PM »
That doe has you pegged!
"If you have to be crazy to hunt ducks, I do not wish to be sane."

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50514
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Rubs
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2012, 05:00:02 PM »
If you look r e a llllly close, you'll see one bedded to the right of her.   They held right there.

Offline 92xj

  • Trade Count: (+26)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2009
  • Posts: 4070
  • Location: Out of Place
  • Kill 'em
Re: Rubs
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2012, 05:05:25 PM »
Thats awesome.  Any snow melt going on up there or staying pretty consistant? 
"If you have to be crazy to hunt ducks, I do not wish to be sane."

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50514
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Rubs
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2012, 05:13:45 PM »
If it would stop snowing then it might catch up.

Offline Arteman

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2011
  • Posts: 1904
  • Location: Earth
  • General of the Mongolian Bigfoot Militia
    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001803366476
Re: Rubs
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2012, 10:36:46 AM »
I think its pretty cool idea to photo them, never thought of that before.  I always got to go up and look at rubs, like the ones where the eyeguards rip craters in the tree, and just shred it.
When you see the third, thin the herd.
Right now I'm somewhere picking up sheds.

Offline TwoSixFourWins

  • Critter Gitter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jan 2012
  • Posts: 255
  • Location: Goldendale
Re: Rubs
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2012, 04:32:29 PM »
I don't think this is a rub necessarily. Moose peel bark off trees to eat and when they do this they peel it and pull it in long strips which leads to some being very high. Typically rubs are closer to the ground. Judging by the size of the deer and how high this one is I think that is what this one might be. However you were there and I was not so i could be wrong.
Bang...Flop......No tracking required.

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50514
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Rubs
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2012, 04:41:34 PM »
It looked as if it was made in late fall.  Certainly had grooves from tips and burrs and was inpregnated by hair.   If you look close, you will note that its a two year rub post.  First year may have been a whitetail and the moose decided to trump.   Generally when they peel it also has different terminal ends up high we as you can tell on this one it has been rubbed.  Obviously all conjecture.
« Last Edit: March 06, 2012, 04:49:47 PM by boneaddict »

Offline NWBREW

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 4217
  • Location: Stevens County
Re: Rubs
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2012, 04:47:29 PM »
Nice. So now I know I'm not the only one.  :chuckle:
Just one more day

Offline Devinshoe

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2010
  • Posts: 633
  • Location: North East Washington
Re: Rubs
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2012, 04:51:02 PM »
I Figured i would show off a cool moose rub.

Offline NWBREW

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 4217
  • Location: Stevens County
Re: Rubs
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2012, 04:52:45 PM »
Devinshoe....I'm not even going to ask how you knew it was a moose rub.  :chuckle: :chuckle:
Just one more day

Offline stealth

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 34
Re: Rubs
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2012, 09:42:48 PM »
that's fricken cool

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50514
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Rubs
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2012, 04:53:53 AM »
I agree. COOL!

Offline Skyvalhunter

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 16013
  • Location: Sky valley/Methow
Re: Rubs
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2012, 05:41:23 AM »
Very interesting. Always nice to see rubs as usually means something with horns is in the area which makes a person keep an eye out a little more. :tup:
The only man who never makes a mistake, is the man who never does anything!!
The further one goes into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Share your out of state experience by andrew_in_idaho
[Yesterday at 10:23:07 PM]


Weatherby Mark V Feeding Issue - Amateur Gunsmith Advice Needed by Reidus
[Yesterday at 09:59:59 PM]


Sturgeon Set-ups by supagoose
[Yesterday at 09:13:30 PM]


Winthrop - Winter Range Road Closures by Kingofthemountain83
[Yesterday at 08:35:55 PM]


2025 deer, let's see em! by redi
[Yesterday at 08:34:06 PM]


Looking for Taxidermist Recommendations by bigmacc
[Yesterday at 07:51:17 PM]


Poll: Supreme Court will decide if 'habitual drug users' lose their gun rights by Tinmaniac
[Yesterday at 07:30:40 PM]


Restraining Order to Prevent Sherman Wolf Removal by dc
[Yesterday at 07:14:10 PM]


E WA waterfowl guide by GWP
[Yesterday at 05:58:00 PM]


2025 Mt. St. Helens success? by p-ohana
[Yesterday at 05:43:28 PM]


2025 blacktail rut thread by brew
[Yesterday at 05:02:07 PM]


Weatherby Vanguard vs. Browning x bolt by high_hunter
[Yesterday at 04:41:26 PM]


Comment against Ski Resort expanding into Colockum elk/deer habitat by TriggerMike
[Yesterday at 02:55:17 PM]


No upland with dog during deer and elk season? by brokentrail
[Yesterday at 01:56:48 PM]


Early Huckleberry Bull Moose tag drawn! by teanawayslayer
[Yesterday at 12:50:07 PM]


Disappearing ink. by bustedoldman
[Yesterday at 11:15:08 AM]


Possible record bull? by time2hunt
[Yesterday at 10:48:01 AM]


East Side by lovetogrouse
[Yesterday at 10:25:04 AM]


West side antler buyers by IdeehoT
[Yesterday at 09:08:16 AM]


Bearpaw Season 2025 by bearpaw
[Yesterday at 08:47:12 AM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal