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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5794329" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>For sure young and/or small bucks will rub on big trees. However, I've never seen one be the first to do it and I've never seen one be capable of creating that kind of damage. When I see young/little bucks hitting big trees it's because a bigger buck has already rubbed it. </p><p></p><p>A scrape can tell you a lot about the buck. This scrape is a tale of two scrapes. You can clearly see where the forehead & brows were rubbing, then above it there's a band of mostly unscathed bark, and above that for another foot is a bunch of deep gouges. That tells me there's significant distance between brows and other tine tips, enough distance that even though he's rubbing up & down the gouges don't overlap. And since we have that gap of no overlap, you can measure the distance from the top of the bottom rub to top of gouges and that'll tell you how far his g2s stick above the tips of his brows. Considering that the entire rub has the same weathering, it was almost certainly done by one buck at one time. My guess is that rub was made by a pretty dang sporty brute.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5794329, member: 20583"] For sure young and/or small bucks will rub on big trees. However, I've never seen one be the first to do it and I've never seen one be capable of creating that kind of damage. When I see young/little bucks hitting big trees it's because a bigger buck has already rubbed it. A scrape can tell you a lot about the buck. This scrape is a tale of two scrapes. You can clearly see where the forehead & brows were rubbing, then above it there's a band of mostly unscathed bark, and above that for another foot is a bunch of deep gouges. That tells me there's significant distance between brows and other tine tips, enough distance that even though he's rubbing up & down the gouges don't overlap. And since we have that gap of no overlap, you can measure the distance from the top of the bottom rub to top of gouges and that'll tell you how far his g2s stick above the tips of his brows. Considering that the entire rub has the same weathering, it was almost certainly done by one buck at one time. My guess is that rub was made by a pretty dang sporty brute. [/QUOTE]
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