The other side was rubbed smooth too but not as thin. This made me start looking at some of my racks I have laying around or on my wall. Almost all of them had distinctive heavier rubbing on one side be it right or left. A few had spot specific wear that was rounded out. This looked like they specifically caught that size tree over n over in the exact same spot. A few also had almost no wear as if they never rubbed anything. Anyhow I thought it was kind of cool.
The buck my cousin killed was in an area that was just tore up with rubs and scrapes. We bumped him the day before out of a transition between hardwoods and a popple thicket. He killed him in the same spot the next day.