you honestly just described MY spot!! this season there were 2 bucks in there that were 120" deer+...which in PA is a good buck. one was shot the first day by another hunter. the other i never got a glimpse of till monday...couldnt even get a shot with the rifle...looked like a buck from TV...its a really hidden spot...close to the roads and fields...but from the roads it looks like a stand of pines...but once your on the ridge theres actually more mature white oaks, sassafrass and red maple then pines..its just bordered in pines...the ridge is only 100yds wide and 500yds long or so...infront is hay and corn fields..beside it is more pines and a field that isnt farmed..behind it is a thick nasty brush field they bed in and along...i just overhunted it this season and hunted the wrong spot..got a shot at a 100" buck that ducked the arrow..

theres books written on the subject of hunting big mature bucks...the best way to learn is expirience IMO...im new to it..but already know i gota find more areas that arent hunted hard by hunters...id honestly be thrilled by a 60" 8pt...but a 100+inch buck is what i REALLY want...i just gotta put in even MORE time scouting then i do.....and quit over hunting..that was my biggest problem this year..

i agree big sign=big bucks to a certain extent...BIG tracks..good...but big rubs and scrapes often dont mean TOO much...alot of guys will say a little buck wont rub a big tree...

heres my proof...a buck came through HARD core trailing a doe...must trailed her all night..they were both sweating and steaming and panting HARD..he was a SMALL buck...might had some points..but was a main from vertical spike buck..maybe 8-10 inch antlers TOPS..i couldnt make out points but he could had some...heres the tree...not HUGE..but definently not small..

ive also watched bigger bucks TRASH smaller trees...so to me unless its a telephone pole sized rub it doesnt say ALL too much...