Has anyone made a rubbing post for a food plot? Marcus Wagner and I will be putting one in our food plot this year. Curious what has worked for people in the past and what hasn't. Thanks! Sent from my SCH-R970 using Tapatalk
Ted Miller from White Knuckle Productions has a few good videos on horizontal rubs you can find on youtube. My personal experience with rubs has been slow, used a raw cedar post last year, but nothing ever messed with it.
I have in fact had outstanding luck with putting in "mock" rub trees. I dig a hole with a tile spade or post hole digger and cut down a six or eight foot tall cedar tree and cut off most of the limbs before "planting" it in the hole. Tamp it really good at least two to three feet deep. I like to leave an overhanging limb for a licking branch and I start a scrape under it also. I use a hand saw to scrape the bark off around the middle of the trunk to give the appearance that it had already been rubbed and then hit it with some scent. I have yet to put one in the ground that did not get lots of use. I normally put them at exactly 20 yards from where I have a stand.
Willow is another species that works very well. Either will stay pretty fresh for the entire fall season. If at all possible, dump several gallons of water in the hole before throwing in the willows and they will stay green for quite a long time. I normally get lazy and just use cedars because the deer like them and they don't require any water to stay good for the season. The deer like something about the cedars. Even cedar sign posts get rubbed in our public forrest areas.
I have never heard of a farmer that would not be ok with cutting down a red cedar, damn invasive specie and an ugly tree. They love pine trees too the more you spent on the tree the more they want to destroy it.
Use some preorbital gland lure on the post once the bucks lose their velvet. Anything I put that stuff on became a rub within a few weeks last fall. It's the most underutilized lure in hunting in my opinion.
I'm gonna be making one this year behind my house and will set up a trail cam. Getting my first couple of trail cams this summer. Pretty excited.
I am usually running behind on getting them in, so most years, I am not sticking them in the ground until mid September or even early October. Because of that, I am putting scent on them immediately. I use Buck Fever synthetics. I put the BF Gland scent on the rubbed part of the tree and spray some on the overhanging limb. I also open up a scrape under it and spray some BF Pre/Post Rut. I usually hang a camera also and have had multiple bucks work these set-ups the very first night. Apparently, they are not the least bit concerned that the tree just magically appeared. lol. I am certain that most of them notice it as being new, but they take to it right away. Troy turned me onto the Buck Fever products several years ago, and I have had such good results with them that I don't even look at anything else. I love the fact that it is synthetic and does not go bad. Mock rubs are a great way to steer a buck into your wheelhouse. Good luck!
Awesome, thanks man! I've been working on clearing out a spot for a smaller kill plot. Never done a plot, so hopefully all these new things work out lol. I think I am gonna try out the horizontal rub style, and have a mock scrape close by.
