#1736527 - 01/20/10 12:28 PM
Re: Big Buck Sign Question?
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BlueMartin,
I realize it's not the answer you're looking for, but honestly, I could not use sign to determine if a particular buck survived the hunting season. The sign only tells me bucks of a given age range were using the area. To know anything about a particular buck, I would need to use trail-cameras.
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#1736533 - 01/20/10 12:30 PM
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Excellent video foldemup. The bigger bucks definately rubed and scent checked higher up on the tree.
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#1736549 - 01/20/10 12:40 PM
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BSK, thanks and I value your input greatly. I'm not only wondering about that particular buck as I hunt other areas. I'm more interested in locating those out-of-the-way places that may hold mature (big) bucks. I understand to key on bigger rubs and scrapes and big tracks. Anything else that may identify the big boys?
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#1736584 - 01/20/10 12:51 PM
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Great videos! Two of those bucks looked liked mac trucks on sticks. I actually felt sorry for their legs! 
For real! Those last two bucks looked fully mature 2 me!
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#1736598 - 01/20/10 12:55 PM
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Cool videos! Thanks for posting! Some brutes in that herd for sure!
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#1736736 - 01/20/10 02:32 PM
Re: Big Buck Sign Question?
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BSK, thanks and I value your input greatly. I'm not only wondering about that particular buck as I hunt other areas. I'm more interested in locating those out-of-the-way places that may hold mature (big) bucks. I understand to key on bigger rubs and scrapes and big tracks. Anything else that may identify the big boys?
I would place very large signpost rubs, especially in concentration, very high on my list of mature buck indicators.
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#1736862 - 01/20/10 03:38 PM
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Besides seeing a big buck in person or on a trail camera there are a few things I've seen that indicate a large racked buck. The 200" buck I took in Davidson Co. this year with my bow had left sign that was indicative of something large & strong. I had not seen the buck in person or on a trail camera. I saw no rubs on particularly large trees but rather small trees about as big around as a mans arm. These rubs had been hammered to the point that they were snapped in two pieces....and or completely pulled out of the groung, uprooted. I knew something substantial was there. Now mature buck sign like droppings and prints have to be present as well. If I see mature bucks with small racks then I usually won't hunt that spot unless I have seen other big racked bucks.
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#1737018 - 01/20/10 04:59 PM
Re: Big Buck Sign Question?
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Besides seeing a big buck in person or on a trail camera there are a few things I've seen that indicate a large racked buck. The 200" buck I took in Davidson Co. this year with my bow had left sign that was indicative of something large & strong.
Wouldn't a 110-class mature buck be just as strong as a 200-class mature buck?
I promise you this guy is 230 lbs of pure muscle, and could do some SERIOUS tree damage, yet he doesn't have much rack.
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#1737046 - 01/20/10 05:08 PM
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good info,and cool videos
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