I've found 4 big rubs within 50 yards of my treestand just yesterday. They are on saplings about 3 inches in diameter, so pretty large saplings. The rubs are something like 18-20 inches tall on each tree.

Now, I've always been of the mind that bigger deer thrash bigger trees and small deer will rub on little trees...so my first thought would be that it's a big deer that's made these.

Here's the problem...there are scrapes at the bottom of all these trees and they're tiny. like the size of a closed laptop.

I've also been taught that bigger deer make bigger scrapes. I shot a nontypical 9 pointer last year hunting over a scrape that was huge. Like the size of a card table. So that experience merely confirmed what I'd always been told.

So what gives with these scrapes and rubs? Any ideas? I just can't believe that a spike or little four pointer is rubbing these trees like he is but I also can't believe that a big buck is making these puny little scrapes either.