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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5367887" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>There are always a lot of theories. Growing up in Ohio, it was <em>fairly </em>common to see it on big rack bucks. I was always told since I was a kid that it was the antlers rubbing as a buck made a scrape. I just believed it because that's what everybody said, and once I was old & experienced enough to reason, it made more sense. Even more so when I began running cams. Once a rack gets big enough, a buck can't look up without the tines hitting his back. And given that he looks straight up to thrash a licking branch, those antler tips scratch his back. Furthermore, we only ever see it when bucks have hard antlers. When you think of how many licking branches a buck that size hits in Oct/Nov, it's easy to see how they sometimes rub themselves bald. </p><p></p><p>Notice in the first two pics the ruft hair along this buck's back, most accentuated above the back of his shoulders. Not bald yet but his tines are short for his rack and it's still October. </p><p></p><p>In the third pic from left you can see two faint dark spots behind the bucks shoulders. Those are bald spots from antlers rubbing. I shot him a week later and you can clearly see one of those bald spots immediate right of the arrow fletching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5367887, member: 20583"] There are always a lot of theories. Growing up in Ohio, it was [I]fairly [/I]common to see it on big rack bucks. I was always told since I was a kid that it was the antlers rubbing as a buck made a scrape. I just believed it because that's what everybody said, and once I was old & experienced enough to reason, it made more sense. Even more so when I began running cams. Once a rack gets big enough, a buck can't look up without the tines hitting his back. And given that he looks straight up to thrash a licking branch, those antler tips scratch his back. Furthermore, we only ever see it when bucks have hard antlers. When you think of how many licking branches a buck that size hits in Oct/Nov, it's easy to see how they sometimes rub themselves bald. Notice in the first two pics the ruft hair along this buck's back, most accentuated above the back of his shoulders. Not bald yet but his tines are short for his rack and it's still October. In the third pic from left you can see two faint dark spots behind the bucks shoulders. Those are bald spots from antlers rubbing. I shot him a week later and you can clearly see one of those bald spots immediate right of the arrow fletching. [/QUOTE]
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