ADVICE FROM BOB MERCIER
If you are going hunting this week focus on the rubs.
Locate the freshest rubbed trees in the woods you can hunt, and put your stand within clear shooting view of the buck trail (15" to 24" inch wide trail that pecking order bucks use) (or 33" wide trail that the king uses) that leads to that rub from a downwind direction. If there is a line of rubs, that is all the better. You want to be on the downwind side of the rubbed tree, and you want the deer trail to be on the same side of the rubbed trees as you are. If I was there to show you it would be much easier of course. But that is not the case so you have to do the scouting and you have to analyze the rubs to know if you are on the downwind side of a shredded bark tree rub or a smooth rub or not.
As a rule, if you are looking at the shiny side of the rub or at least one shiny side of the rub and the wind is blowing in your face then you are downwind of the rub that day.
Dominant bucks and pecking order bucks make these rubs, but only the king owns them. If you make a rub just like the one you find in the area you can shoot into, then the bucks in the herd will know that none of them made it. That gets their attention. They will seek out the maker. They look for him (you). They seek his musky smelling glands (scent) but they cannot find him if you do not help them.
Think about putting a buck decoy out near the fresh-made rub. If you have a buck decoy and you bed it down by the rub on the downwind side and you sit close to it (>10 yards but <80 yards) and you hunt with a gun, you will have fun watching bucks and does that see your decoy attempt to talk to it.
Dominant bucks do not allow other bucks (decoys) to bed down in their territory near rubs. There are rules in the deer world and that is one of them.
If I could give you any advice on how to encounter bucks in daylight. It will always be looking for fresh rubs made that day or the day before. You can see the fresh bark peeled off on the ground under the rubbed tree.
The rubs are in a line that the dominant buck and his pecking order keep an eye on when moving from one place to another in their territory. If you can see more than one rub, and you can buy and use some buck pee or doe in estrus pee by dragging it down the trail you have a view and a shot to, then do it. Do it one day before you wish to hunt so the deer can find it. If you can make an identical rub to theirs but make it 20 yards away from theirs where they will see it when they get to theirs then you will get them to stop and look at it. Bucks may go to it. Or just stand there. You have to think about shooting them at the first moment they can see your tree rub facing downwind that day.
If you have a NW wind rub SE only.
If you have a NE wind rub SW only and so on.
You rub the opposite side of the tree as the wind but only one of these four sides. NW, NE, SW, SE. Do not rub a tree to the N, S, E, or W and leave it with shredded bark, and do not make smooth rubs on trees on the N, S, E, or W side of the tree unless you know there are doe beds within 80 yards opposite the smooth rub you are making.
If this is too confusing for you I am sorry. But I do not have the time to train everyone at the same time, and from what I know of my email list only 200 customers of the 750 people who asked me to email them, even care to read my emails.
So to wrap up. I want to help you learn what it takes to get close to big-bucks in daylight, and I will help you if you OPT-IN to my E-Newsletter by clicking the link above. I hope you find some fresh rubs and set your stand near the freshest shredded or smooth side, and be scent-free and drag some urine from a buck in the rut or a doe in estrus by that tree where you can shoot to it. The next day or later that day you have raised your odds of encountering a big-buck at that very spot because you behaved as a buck or doe that has business with the king. I wish you all well this season.
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Do not forget that all signs of Big-Racked Bucks tell you where to set your stand. Buck Poop is clumpy and the bigger around it is the older the buck is. Buck rubs get higher on the N, S, W, and E sides of trees when the buck is growing wider antlers. The King's track is always splayed on both of his front hooves all year round. No other deer have the right to do this but a king. Dominant bucks bed within 60 yards of their poop in most cases.
Here is the short of it. Bucks feel safe at rubs, making tracks, and where they poop in daylight. They do not feel safe near hunters or people in general. Choose to hunt where the king's tracks are < 35 yards from your stand, or move your stand to within 35 yards or less of the king's tracks for an encounter with the king. Become something he needs. A mate, or nothing. The king always needs a mate. So use the D.I.E. Scrape System to become his next mate or just use doe in estrus urine and drag it down his tracks -- That is a king's trail you know.
These tactics work. I have been teaching them for years. A little more cut and dried in the delivery but you get the idea. Do not be a human in the kingdom of a king. Role-play and become a doe in estrus that needs a mate today. Go to the deer sign and follow it upwind if hunting there at night, or follow the deer tracks downwind if hunting in the morning. hunt near the center of the herd if hunting all day long, or choose to hunt in shade and cover with a D.I.E. Scrape upwind 40 to 80 yards and crosswind 10-50 -yards from the nearest doe beds to have the best success with the D.I.E. Scrape.
I hope this helps you think more about the sign and what it means.
I do not believe in luck, so I will wish you well.
Happy hunting and Happy Thanksgiving
Bob J Mercier
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