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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: fishnfur on November 16, 2016, 07:02:43 PM

Title: BT tactics over rubs
Post by: fishnfur on November 16, 2016, 07:02:43 PM: So I made the drive to the Great White North, (633, 627), scouted a bit today - there are quite a few good new rubs where I planned to hunt, some new thrashed small stuff in reprod, and some rubs in mixed timber 40 yards inside the timber edge, (with a really nice one on a five inch Alder at a drainage crossing).

I cleared a spot to post-up in the forest over the big rub(but the wind will be iffy here), put out a blind at the overlook over the swale in the reprod, but that also visualizes the rubline in the reprod, sunk rebar posts for a decoy/3-D target down in the swale that will get Doe in Estrous pee tomorrow at some point. I was going to put up a climbing stand too, but the setup didn't feel right for the trees available. Forcasted wind-direction is only so-so. SSW - go figure! Autumn in the Great NW!

Just for fun, assuming that the winds are not a factor, where would you start at first light? Rubs in the forest or reprod with big viz and plenty of deer sign, which may mostly come from nighttime activity?

-Post up over the rubline in reprod? (This is where the trespassers on my property like to cut down my trees and build blinds. I have no idea if they are successful, but their blinds are now kindling).
-Hang out over the big rub in the forest on the edge of the cut? (Many people believe that bucks abandon rublines during the rut).
-Maybe schlep it out in the blind where I can see farther and move a bit more to stay warm in the cold weather, and perhaps get a shot at a buck, either on the rubline in reprod behind me and/or coming into the decoy once placed down below in the reprod in front of me?

Thanks!
Title: Re: BT tactics over rubs
Post by: JakeLand on November 16, 2016, 07:23:09 PM: If it were me I would be glassing a steep timber line right on the edge of a 3+ year old cut if possible.
I too think they don't frequent their rub lines as much now because it's all about finding every Doe to get some if possible
Title: Re: BT tactics over rubs
Post by: fishnfur on November 16, 2016, 11:45:16 PM: Thanks Jakeland. I appreciate the input. Not much steep county where I am, (in fact, it's almost flatlands) though I think that the bucks will still prefer sloped to flat, which places them in drainages or on small hills.

I was thinking the same thing about rubs: pre-rut: good; Post-rut: OK to good. .....but there is a super nice rub on an Alder just inside the edge where I shot my buck last year. I've got a pretty good idea of the perpetrator. I hope he has suicide on his mind. We'll see what the wind does and how I can get into one of my spots. The wind dictates the hunt on this one.
Title: Re: BT tactics over rubs
Post by: JakeLand on November 17, 2016, 04:04:16 AM: Good luck !! Keep us posted
Title: Re: BT tactics over rubs
Post by: Skyvalhunter on November 17, 2016, 05:29:50 AM: It's been my experience that a lot of times bucks will rub trees in their area never to revisit again. However blacktails have a small area where they live. Although there are those blacktails that reside in the high alpine area and migrate lower when weather forces them to do so. :twocents: