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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Belt" data-source="post: 3435874" data-attributes="member: 69"><p>I agree that much of the rubbing at Ames may be done in the thick, nasty stuff because where I have ventured into it I've always found some. It is purely contradictory to everything I "think" I know about mature buck behavior or any buck behavior for that matter, to not find any more rubbing activity outside these nasty areas than I've found over the years. I just can't believe they reserve all their rubbing efforts for the thick stuff. I'm not saying I don't find any and I can only wish to meet up with a few of the bucks making some of the rubs I do find, but I've never hunted anywhere else with such a yearly lack of them visible to someone who puts in a bunch of miles looking.</p><p></p><p>fairchaser...Have you ever been to PI around rut time? That place was covered up with mature bucks and there were rubs everywhere and I mean everywhere. There were so many that you almost became immune to seeing 8-12" diameter trees stripped from the waist down and there were car hood sized scrapes almost so thick you could skip from one to the next. Those bucks weren't afraid of advertising and I don't really think ours are either. For whatever reason our buck population just doesn't seem to display the typical buck behavior of rubbing found elsewhere. I hate it because I love finding freshly scarred trees. That being said there are a couple of places I know where I find huge signpost rubs yearly on the same trees. I doubt the same bucks that initiated some of them are still alive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Belt, post: 3435874, member: 69"] I agree that much of the rubbing at Ames may be done in the thick, nasty stuff because where I have ventured into it I've always found some. It is purely contradictory to everything I "think" I know about mature buck behavior or any buck behavior for that matter, to not find any more rubbing activity outside these nasty areas than I've found over the years. I just can't believe they reserve all their rubbing efforts for the thick stuff. I'm not saying I don't find any and I can only wish to meet up with a few of the bucks making some of the rubs I do find, but I've never hunted anywhere else with such a yearly lack of them visible to someone who puts in a bunch of miles looking. fairchaser...Have you ever been to PI around rut time? That place was covered up with mature bucks and there were rubs everywhere and I mean everywhere. There were so many that you almost became immune to seeing 8-12" diameter trees stripped from the waist down and there were car hood sized scrapes almost so thick you could skip from one to the next. Those bucks weren't afraid of advertising and I don't really think ours are either. For whatever reason our buck population just doesn't seem to display the typical buck behavior of rubbing found elsewhere. I hate it because I love finding freshly scarred trees. That being said there are a couple of places I know where I find huge signpost rubs yearly on the same trees. I doubt the same bucks that initiated some of them are still alive. [/QUOTE]
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