Thread: Antler stripping vs territory marking

I’ve noticed with reds that you often see two types of antler rubbing - little saplings that are debarked, and then bigger mature trees with deep scrapes in them.
Is one of these stripping, and the other territorial marking, meaning one done in January/February, the other March/April? Or is it simply a matter of finding the right tree?
The particular area I hunted last had heaps of saplings the thickness of a digit debarked, and it was Waitangi Day, this got me wondering if this was where they strip, and therefore whether they’d still be here come the roar.