Muley Rubs

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I am trying to figure out when these couple little spots I found MIGHT be holding these bucks. They have several thickets that are just loaded with really serious rubs, ones I've deduced could only be made by bucks I'd like to shoot! :0)

Does anybody have a good idea when these bucks are really rubbing? Is it before rut, early rut, main rut or post rut??? I am suspecting its spread out through all that time, but does anyone know if they really hit it hard at a certain stage??

Thanks for any help,

HS
 
Good post,
Its my experience that the majority of hard core rubbing done by muley bucks is when they shed velvet. The "rubing" they do before during and after the rut is more posturing and exhibition, and usually involves more "thrashing" than "digging" like whitetails seem to be fond of. If I was a betting man, (which according to my wife I gave up gambling years ago wink wink) I would bet the area is holding bucks in July August (pending on the velvet shed time in your neck of the woods). Not to say those bucks won't stick around, if there is a good doe presence, they might be back later in the season, or they may be within a few miles. Figure the elevation of your hotspot and do some scouting 1000 feet up and down in elevation. Maybe you'll stumble on a realy hidy-hole. You have a great "starting" point.

Good luck!!


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I think the bucks will be in a similar area. The deer are sorta elevationally limited in this spot. They cant go much higher and they wont go much lower due to people activity.

If this is a velvet rubbing area, I should probably head up there with stick and string in early September and stake out these patches, could be fun and there are elk in there too, so that always adds a little point of interest!

Thanks

HS
 
Muley don't care where they lose their velvet, I have see them rub on several trees and brush in one valley in about a hour time to get rid of it,and never make rubs in that area. The rubs you are seeing are probaly made pre-rut it part of their calling call to show other bucks who runs that area, and it lets the does know who will be the biggest and baddest one in there area too. I would hunt this area a week or 2 before the rut and during the rut they will get freshen up but that will probaly happen at night, if you find a herd of doe's any where close to a rub area that is your ticket to sit and watch for the bucks coming and going from this area to the does and you may see several different ones, all those rubs aren't made by the same buck some are just copy's of smaller buck following the lead of a big buck.But I for one love hunting those area's, I also call and rattle in muledeer.Try and watch that area off and on all summer and in to the fall and you will see how and when they start making the old rub's fresh again, I'm saying you will see a few of them(fresh rubs) during the velet removal period but the heavy rubbing will happen in that area in the pre-rut period.
 

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