Nah, not even 100"... Out of respect I wont past my neighbors and other local friends harvest pics for this year... 130-180" isnt unheard of around here in the least. That buck above will be a shooter next year... Unless your talking about her, then yes a shooter lol... In fact, i might have already hahaha
Yea a 100" buck is not a shooter to me even here in SC. Some guys will shoot the chit out of those though. 130" should easily be obtainible everywhere. Some places may take a few more years. Some area are poor quality and not every deer reaches that size but a few do. I have a buck on my wall from the sandhill in SC. I minted it because it was a trophy where I killed it though. It was if I remember right 6.5 years old. Weighed 130 pounds on the hoof and barely scored 100".
Go figure i take the day off to go fishing and look who shows up at my stand. Lol. Now I had a great day fishing but would've loved to had a run in with this ol boy.
Not a cam pic but check out this rub! It's on a piece of ground the state just purchased that backs up to the woods at work. They turned it into a preserve but after a few phone calls i found out it's huntable.
Holy $^*@ That's one of those northern and mid west rubs. I have need seen anything like that. Not even close!
I've only ever seen one rub close to this size but not this big! I saw it from 50yds away. Couldn't believe it until I got closer. Sometimes cedars will lose their bark or peel around the base but this is a clear as day rub. Deep tine marks all over it.
Yea I looked a second time to see iF it was not what your talking about . Sometimes squirrels will peel the bark off for nests also . I looked to see if I could tell one way...but I concluded it was a legit rub...I can't see time marks but without them I still beleive it to be a rub.
Looks like a cedar tree? I have seen rubs the same on cedars around here. I think being cedar and easy to debark the rubs are large.
We have tons of eastern red cedar here, which is what i assume that is.. The do seem to be preferred trees and rubs on same trees over many decades. They can get just as much bark off our lob lolly I would think and have a rougher surface at same time. But I do not really notice rubs that are so much more disproportionate to other trees around here.
Its probably a community rub... Our farms always have the same cedars get monster rubs like that every year, put a cam on it, and lots different bucks visit it.. Essentially like a scrape. If you notice, there wont be a "rub line" going to or from it like other standard smaller rubs. I dont know the science to it, but each piece we have typically has the same type of tree, and 99% of the activity is the middle of the night.
Never heard of a community rub.... interesting. Only rub I've ever seen on a tree that size and that high up was this guy. Sorry about the terrible pic of a pic.
They are usually 10yds or so off the field edge where the common spot to enter the field is, here... But we dont have huge tracts of woods, its big ag area, and 80acres of woods is pretty big in a continuous tract. Google it, theres 10 or so different type of rubs. Most arent worthy of hunting as they are random, rub lines really are only worthy pre-rut as they are feeling the "rage" build up but arent roaming yet.
