Big and small deer can rub big or small trees just never know til you start hunting it.

There is absolutely no way that anyone could prove that. Every buck has a different personality. So who says a little four point couldn't tear up a decent size tree. Science cannot prove that at all.

Not necessarily the case. All age bucks will initiate rubs on small-diameter trees. But only older bucks initiate rubs on large diameter trees. However, once initiated, all rubs are communal, in that every buck in the area may rework the rub another buck started. When it comes to true sign-post rubs (those trees that are rubbed year after year), every deer in the area will work them, and does will sniff and lick them. That is the rubs purpose--a communal "pheramone wick."

There is absolutely no way that anyone could prove that. Every buck has a different personality. So who says a little four point couldn't tear up a decent size tree. Science cannot prove that at all.

Yeah well i have prove that's not true my buddy filmed a kids first deer harvest and it was a yearling buck based on the jaw bone and footage of this deer taring up a tree so no i.don't agree with what he is saying science can't prove everything. And even though he is "studying them for a living" does not mean he is right every time or has seen everything.

I don't have an attitude yal think what ever he says is true. Common sense tells you some is not and some people have other opinions so i mean i don't agree with him i have seen it and other people have to. Just because he is a biologist does not mean all his data and conclusions are right. And many other biologist say the exact same thing i said. I am not saying he is bad at what he does are that MOST deer follow his conclusion but not all do. That's all I'm saying. I don't have an attitude at all.

I know he is a biologist but there is absolutely no way to 100 percent say that small bucks cant rub big trees before a mature buck does. There is no way to prove that. At all

And plus science is wrong a lot. A whole lot

Numerous studies have been conducted on buck rubbing behavior. Although it is impossible to say young bucks never initiated rubs on large diameter trees, it would not be the norm, nor common. Rubs on large diameter trees are almost always initiated by older bucks, although even a 2 1/2 year-old will initiate rubs on some pretty big trees.

From my research, I found that rubbed trees the diameter of a Coke can were very indicative of the population of 2 1/2+ year-old bucks in the area. The more trees of this size rubbed in the area, the more 2 1/2+ year-old bucks in the area.