How big is big ????
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From: steve
11-Jan-20
We came across this today ! It was fresh not early season we have a big 8 about 50 yards away on camera
From: steve
11-Jan-20
1 more next to it
From: Bigbuckbob
11-Jan-20
Damn, that's moose big.
From: Ace
11-Jan-20
Wow, big for sure. I assume you set up some cams?
I always figured that the size of a tree that a buck rubs on has a lot to do with antler configuration as well as size. A buck with a small span between his brow tines did not make that rub. If it was much higher on the tree and much further North, I’d say look for moose tracks, but that’s a WT.
From: BoneHead
11-Jan-20
That fella def has some testosterone he is putting to use!! No doubt a good one! Next years prospect!!!
From: Notme
11-Jan-20
I often told my ex's kids and my sisters kids when they complained they were hungry while hunting/fishing to eat tree bark it builds character..crap you're kid took it literally..lol
From: soapdish
11-Jan-20
Big beaver with an attitude
From: steve
11-Jan-20
Bonehead we're still hunting !
From: Bloodtrail
11-Jan-20
That’s not fair....he’s 5’2”........
From: Shawn
11-Jan-20
Huuuuuuuge!!!!!! Love to come across sign like that..your always wondering what deer made this..
From: Bigbuckbob
11-Jan-20
Maybe a bear scratching his butt :)
From: Tall 1
11-Jan-20
That's a trophy class deer banging up trees that large. Go Fetch!
From: Mt man
11-Jan-20
Almost looks like a signpost rub you see them a bit up north in Maine
From: Wild Bill
11-Jan-20
Definitely qualifies as BIG.
From: nehunter
11-Jan-20
Too bad you just found it. Hopefully you have permission to hunt there.
From: BoneHead
11-Jan-20
Forgot about those zones!!! I’m back into work mode!! Lol!! Go get em!! Good luck!
From: steve
11-Jan-20
Nehunter we hunted thus spot for 20 years , and that is brand new
From: nehunter
11-Jan-20
No Sh*t. Hopefully he's still walking around.
From: SILVERADO
12-Jan-20
I’m thinking a spike did it..
From: steve
12-Jan-20
You weren’t think that when you were standing next to it! Lol
From: SixLomaz
13-Jan-20
This is an April 1st prank guys. That is the tree Steve hit with the truck last time he killed a deer. The rear camera was dirty and the truck does not have collision assistance built in.
From: Toonces
13-Jan-20
That is a massive rub.
I came across this one during rifle season. Not nearly as big a tree, although it isn't small. This one was probably the highest on a tree I have ever seen rubbed. It extends well past the top of the rifle barrel.
From: Bigbuckbob
13-Jan-20
Toonces, any moose tracks or sign in your area like droppings?
From: Toonces
13-Jan-20
It might be a moose, but guessing not. It is at the end of bench at the bottom of a ridge and creek crossing. There were deer tracks and droppings at the creek crossing and on the bench. It is in a spot I would expect to find a deer rub.
To answer your question, I did not come across anything that I would be sure were moose tracks or droppings.
From: N8tureBoy
13-Jan-20
Must have been made by a real dandy!
From: Bigbuckbob
13-Jan-20
I haven't seen rubs on trees like that in years so that has to be something really nice. Especially if it's so big it looks like moose rubs.
From: Cougar
18-Jan-20
Mass
From: Tall 1
18-Jan-20
Saw my biggest rubs in CT in the Lake Gillard Water Company controlled hunt. Saw some show stopper sign but never killed a deer there and saw very few.
From: airrow
18-Jan-20
From: N8tureBoy
19-Jan-20
May be a "signpost" rub made by multiple bucks?
From: SixLomaz
19-Jan-20
2018 Colorado 7x7 monarch elk
2018 Colorado 7x7 monarch elk
Now this is big ... all DIY from hunting, to transport, to skull preparation, and finally after 1.5 years, wall mounting.
From: Bigbuckbob
20-Jan-20
Six, magnificent!
From: Will
20-Jan-20
Big? How big is big? It's the one that got away... You guys should all know that. Big is defined by the lack of physical evidence :) ha ha ha!
From: SixLomaz
20-Jan-20
"Big is defined by the lack of physical evidence"
More like big is enhanced or amplified by lack of evidence.
From: Jason in New York
20-Jan-20
Six, Awesome!
From: Bloodtrail
20-Jan-20
Big is when you grab some with your left hand, grab some with your right....and there’s still more to grab. :)
From: Smoothdraw
20-Jan-20
Tall 1, Buckndoe shot one of those Lake Gaillard beasts. Ask him to post a pic!!!
From: Smoothdraw
20-Jan-20
Notme only needs the left hand. Lol.
From: Notme
21-Jan-20
Why thank you .lol
From: Bigbuckbob
21-Jan-20
They don't realize just how LARGE your hands are, do they ?
From: GF
26-Jan-20
I found a big rub today… Or at least I think it MIGHT be a rub… But therein LIES the rub…
From: GF
26-Jan-20
Is there an alternative explanation for this one?
To be perfectly honest, I’m not convinced… And on the other hand, I don’t know what else it would be?? I guess it could’ve been an angry little kid with a pointy stick....
What do you guys think?
From: longbeard
26-Jan-20
I think it’s a mountain lion scratch post!! Lol. See if there is any DNA left behind, they might be able to trace it to East BF or the Dakotas. Ha ha ha
From: Bigbuckbob
26-Jan-20
I don't know what it is, but I don't want to run into it in the dark.
From: Notme
26-Jan-20
Could be the guy that built that walk way trying out his brand new 14 amp Milwaukee sawzall
From: Bigbuckbob
26-Jan-20
Milwaukee doesn't make a 14 amp that I know of, it's either 12 or 15. And sawzall is a brand of reciprocating saws. As a tool guy I need to correct abuse on this site :)
From: Notme
26-Jan-20
Testing your knowledge there bob...Bosch has 14 amp..lol
From: Bigbuckbob
26-Jan-20
Correct
From: Cougar
27-Jan-20
Tall, I'm 6'3"
From: Bigbuckbob
27-Jan-20
I've seen a few like that cougar, a nice one for sure.
From: SmoothieJonez
30-Jan-20
Telephone post size tree
From: Bigbuckbob
30-Jan-20
You know, I love seeing sign like that in my hunting area, but boy does it p_ss me off when they never show up.
