05-12-2022, 05:35 PM
(05-12-2022, 05:10 PM)TDDA Wrote:(05-12-2022, 01:44 AM)Snarl Wrote:(05-10-2022, 07:16 PM)TDDA Wrote: In regions with deers you will find marks on trees and can judge by the age and size when it happened, fresh ones tell you more
What do you see?
How much wrong am I?
I don't know.
I was scouting the area and getting my tree stand ready for the climb. Those marks weren't there the week prior. What's in the photo is what a buck (male deer) does during the rut. I found this tree (and a couple of skinnier ones) like this walking back in. No deer for me that day though.
It was a pretty healthy tree from what I could see. I ought'a go back out there and see if it died after all that bark got tore off. Pretty long way to go just to look at a tree though, so I probably won't. If I had to guess those marks were only made the day before I came back and found 'em. Would have walked right past it in the dark to get to where I stowed my stand.