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Hunting rub lines
By: jeremy Date: December 27, 2015, 4:17 pm
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How many of you guys hunt rub lines. I have just really started
this year and have had some success with my sightings. Most of
the ones I have hunted have to have a bed attached to them or I
never seen anything it seemed.
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Re: Hunting rub lines
By: Thundermtn Date: December 27, 2015, 7:27 pm
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I have to much pressure from other hunters to have much action.
Seems like the mature bucks are running them after dark and once
the rut hits I shift my spots to find cruising bucks.
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Re: Hunting rub lines
By: jeremy Date: December 27, 2015, 11:21 pm
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Are you hunting close to there bed, with the pressure that will
be the only way you will see them in day light until the rut.
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Re: Hunting rub lines
By: Thundermtn Date: December 28, 2015, 2:00 pm
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It depends on the cover and varies spot to spot. Beds are a key
but I don't put much pressure on a mature buck bedding area. If
I blow them out with a wind swirl the jig is up for that spot
for a while. So much of how I hunt is based on the timing of the
rut and it's stages. I tend to target areas down wind of doe
bedding areas and the lower extensions of draws or saddles that
run between ridges. Those spots produce more bucks than a
scrape/rub line for me in daylight as they are small in
comparison to the potential length of a rub line. As you get
farther into pre-rut they run them more and you don't know where
he'll start or stop and where he'll get side tracked with a doe
coming in. Prior to pre-rut they tend to have a very small range
near their bedding. That's when stalking works the best for me.
They stay put and if you go in with the right wind at the right
time of day with enough cover you can walk right up and smoke
some good bucks. I don't have an October lull this way.
I guess what I'm saying is that a rub/scrape line for me has a
very limited window of opportunity compared to other specific
types of features in the woods. When you start to combining
spots like a doe bedding area with a saddle close to food or
water, you're stacking the deck in your favor for the amount of
potential time a buck will be in that area vs. a single spot
that he'll visit for 2 minutes and be gone and most of the time
for my area he's at that spot at night.
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Re: Hunting rub lines
By: jeremy Date: December 28, 2015, 4:07 pm
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Well it sounds like you have a few things figured out there
then. I never had much luck with rut, it just seems so sporadic
to me and it is hard to nail down where to be. But I would say
doe bedding is the over the best durning that time frame.
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