I don't know if this is helpful but I'll tell the story and maybe you can get something out of it.

A couple years ago I had my rest break while shooting at a big mature buck and didn't hit him very good. The result is he made it home before he died. When I tracked him I knew when I got in his house and there he was. The deer sign was totally different. The scrapes and rubs were like professional work. Ive seen this before where you can just tell the difference between sloppy random buck sign and a big boy that knows what he is doing but Ive never had it really so clear as it was when I found him laying there dead in what was clearly his bedroom.

Buck sign and big buck sign are 2 very different things.

Here he is