Buck rubs here in Western New York and Northern Pa. are beginning to pop in earnest throughout forests, field edges, and even roadsides. And like popcorn, at first their appearance is slow, but as ...

Buck rubs can present a real head-scratcher for whitetail hunters. Some argue that rubs only tell you where a buck has been once. It’s like reading a history book, but not the sort of sign that ...

Most buck rubs go cold once the rut gets into full swing. But there's one type of rub that can help you tag a peak-rut trophy ...

This picture shows a small willow tree that a whitetail buck deer has used to rub his antlers. During late summer and early autumn male deer push their antlers against, up and down the trunks of tree ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...

I got an email from a young hunter this last week and it posed some excellent questions and a topic for discussion. Buck rubs are of great interest to hunters, but what do they mean? The scars that ...

Every January, you see it on the edge of a food plot or along a logging road and feel that familiar jolt of optimism: a fresh-looking buck rub that seems to promise late rut fireworks. Yet in much of ...

Bucks can cause significant damage to young trees in the fall by rubbing their antlers on trunks. Male deer do this to clean their antlers of summer velvet from early September through November while ...