Favorite Rub Trees

[Bowsnbucks]

What are the preferred rub trees in your areas ??

Around my hunting area, pitch pines, hemlocks, maples and witch hazel are the go-to trees for bucks. Younger spruce ( under 12 ft. tall ) draw attention too where they exist.

 

[scott44]

Young pines, sumac, cedars, maples are most of some of the ones they like around here.

 

[rocksnstumps]

Thats simple.....anything I plant!

 

[jackpine]

Popple/Aspen & Pine

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[Booner21]

Ours seem to like autumn olive a fair bit.

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[Mortenson]

Cedars, willows, soft maples. They rub our walnuts where we planted them and want them growing, but when I cut out a bad one and sink it in front of a trail cam it usually gets left alone. They rub my planted wild plums wildly.

 

[hillHuntR]

Red cedar is probably #1 that i see around here. Tulip poplar might be close 2nd. After that i have seen about everything used, especially when in the sapling stage

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[TreeDaddy]

Red Cedar ,yaupon,sumac

bill

 

[MickT]

Red cedar is king in TN but I don’t know there’s anything I haven’t seen rubbed. I even saw rubs on pokeweed a couple years ago.


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[hillrunner]

Interesting replies. We are completely over run with red cedar but I rarely see a rub on one. Willows are always a favorite.

 

[hillrunner]

Thats simple.....anything I plant!

That's the truth!

 

[bwoods11]

Young basswood

 

[Catscratch]

Red cedar here also.

 

[j-bird]

Pine, cedar, cottonwood, willow and basswood seem to get beat-up on my place.

 

[bwoods11]

Aspen is also a favorite if the farm has aspen.

 

[H20fwler]

Any spruce tree I put in the ground!

In the woods I've seen them rub about any type of tree here.

 

[scott44]

This pic is a few years old but my kids got these red pine from school for Arbor day or something like that so we planted them on the fenceline in the back. A couple of them were rubbed for a few years and we have red pine bushes.

 

[j-bird]

I forgot one....chestnut....specifically my 6 foot, 3 gallon Chestnut Hill Chestnut....planted in 2014....they really, really, really loved that tree!

 

[SWIFFY]

Red Willow and Aspen, Poplar seem to be favorites here. There are some rubs on Conifers, they are usually BIG.

 

[sagittarius]

In the right location, any tree. Cedar, sumac, apple, cherry, maple .... lowest preference box elder, elm, buckthorn.