rubs

I have a stand of pines like that on our property and there isn't one rub or scrape to be found.

Bull I doubt I will never get a shot at the buck that made these rubs. He beds in private property and stays nocturnal most of the year. But you never know he might make a mistake and have a VERY BAD DAY LOL

Nice rubs,
I live and hunt in Connecticut. Huge deer population here. We can only hunt State property and Pvt land with written permission of the landowner. It is not unusual to have a  permit for 10 or 15 acres, depending on ownership, in a wood of a thousand acres. Often much of the  adjoining pieces are never hunted resulting in an adult deer population to be envied. Avid deer guys here often have many large racks in the basement. We have 8 or 9 tags a year with 2 or 3 for bucks. We become very familiar with big guys in a State not generally thought of when talking big deer. Serious guys get very selective.
The point is that I often see such rubs before the season indicating a bucks home area but during the season they wander for does and often dont COME HOME till late Dec. I have had a lot of sucuss waiting out a big guy till breeding is over.  They will always come back home if not pressured.
As you  know they will travel for miles to breed. Not unusual for guys here to take an early doe and quietly wait out the big guy who may not have seen a hunter all season.
Took a nice long tined 8 on opening day this year and his poppa lives on the same 15 acre permit. Last year he came home, to a spot  he had rubbed up earlier, the day before the season ended. My front loader went POP- just a cap- and he got out of his bed and ran. Early rubs tell me hes still there, a little half  acre blowdown area.. This year Ill be waiting, with a dryer gun.
When having the same permit year after year in areas generally unhunted we often "manage" our deer by only taking out the better racks. Its a very unusual opportunity in one of the most densley people populated of  states. Sometimes life is good.

Hey Sonof--do NOT pressure that buck. Make a tree stand ( very high) or a good ground blind with an overhead to cover your movement. Dont walk around the property or let anyone else do so. Use the same track in and out of your blind or stand. Keep it quiet and original-hell be back. We are forced to use those bow hunting kind of methods here when gun hunting and they work.

I actually watched a buck rub w/ just his G1's for a few minutes this year at about 10am on a red maple. Those and my hybrid pine plantation take a beating from the bucks.