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 ...

Early September here in the Northeast and Midwest signals the time when whitetail bucks begin the process of shedding what we call velvet, covering their antlers. The brownish, kind of hairy antlers ...

This picture shows a small willow tree that a whitetail buck deer has used to rub his antlers. During late summer and early autumn male deer push their antlers against, up and down the trunks of tree ...

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 ...

Bucks can cause significant damage to young trees in the fall by rubbing their antlers on trunks. Male deer do this to clean their antlers of summer velvet from early September through November while ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...

I got an email from a young hunter last week and he asked some great questions on the topic of buck rubs. Buck rubs are the scars that bucks leave on trees by rubbing their antlers against them. A big ...

It was the heart of the breeding season one fall when I shot a nice buck in the act of rubbing a tree. I didn’t pay much attention to this at first. But when it happened a second time, I realized that ...