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 ...

Firearm deer season is less than two weeks away. You need to be out doing some of your most serious scouting right now. And if you see a buck rub, you should pay attention to it and really interpret ...

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 ...

I have always considered rubs, those white scars on the forest’s saplings, a mystery in the world of the whitetail buck. At least in my mind, we call sign made by deer "ground scrapes," including the ...