I have been witness to a few over the years of the all out bar room bawl style , seen a number of almost fights(square offs, muscle flexing if you will) and countless sparring matches. I am not sure why it is, b/c know guys here who have never seen a fight either. Some those results can be pointed to the places they choose to hunt. I have never seen a fight in a field before and know many guys who sit field in the am and evening, as an example. However more to the point I do know they scrap and go at it hard here, even if i don' t witness even 1% of the fights that go on. Explain broken tines, locked up dead deer, injuries, bruising in the shoulder/hams and of course the need for our mature bucks to have necks as big (and in some cases bigger) than their shoulders. Well it easy to say a big boy always finds it easier to intimidate rather than actually fight, he must find another guy who either thinks he is or is as big as himself and is willing to dance for a date with the ladies. Maybe in areas where he just have to go to the next club, it ain' t quite the same, but mature bucks like heirooms they are not satisfied with one date they want them all...thus competition for those does is inevitable. results are you' ll have fights between the upper level bucks, them little guys just run and don' t mess with daddy. If you have only little ones they haven' t experienced the need to fight for superiority or domain rights. that maybe a clue to why some don' t see lots of indicators of fights happening, but I would still say somewhere and everywhere there are mature bucks who do thing they need to keep the title...trick is finding them heavyweights