Anyone seeing any rubs or scrapes? I'm in Heard Co. and I haven't seen a buck as of yet, so I really don't know what the status is with velvet. When should the bucks start the scrape routine?
I found a couple of nice rubs the other day as I was making my way to finish work on my stand. Also ran across a fresh scrape. The fresh sign in addition to this cool weather has made me all giddy!
My buddy and I found a very nice rub about 125 yards from my stand opening weekend of bow season. We also noticed several old rubs that he was hitting as well. From this tell/tale sign, I would say there is a very good buck near this stand!! Especially from the size and the fact that this large rub was done so early!!
we started seing new scapes about two weeks ago and this weekend I found a few very nice rubs on 5" - 6" trees. The big bucks seem to be putting out their signpost now.