Things you always say you want to improve on but never do.

Man I reached down and grabbed a tree today to inspect a rub...big mistake, jacked my hand up good. In all my years I have never seen a tree like the picture I am posting below. This is not the exact pic, but the tree looked very similar to the one below.

 

Sent you a PM.

 

My guess would be a young black locust or a honey locust- which I am actually unfamiliar with as we don't have many of them where I love.

Was it a very big tree and was it a very light brown color almost beige? Locusts have LOTS of thorns when they are young and if it was a locust the rub itself would have been really white.

Bucks tend to rub these trees often too, which I did not learn until this year.

 

It was a smaller tree, maybe 3 inches wide, and was very light brown. It was a sturdy little tree, even though it was smaller. It had a ton of small thorns that I did not see when I reached for the tree. The rub was whitish/light yellow. The thorns looked this tree below, yet not as numerous.

 

Definitely a black locust. Like I said, I didn't even know bucks rubbed these trees until this year until one particular buck took up quite a dislike for them.

These trees really aren't good for much regarding deer, sometimes they'll nip the buds during the winter though.

 

Thanks man, im working on it slowly. I see alot of kids that hunt the way you did, and at the same time i know of alot of kids who have me whooped. Its a work in progress.

 

Having everything done MONTHS before the season starts. Come August and September, I hope to only be glassing soybean fields, not setting up stands in 95 degree weather.

Given the crop rotation for next year I have most my spots picked out already, just need to put the stand up in them.

 

We have trees like that called "devil's walking sticks" You learn real quick not to grab em.
I'm sure htey have a more scientific name, but I'm pretty lacking in that department.
I've gotten much better with trees, but I am still not where i want to be with plants/shrubs and stuff. And I still need to work on my trees a good deal more too.