Well, I can't match Mossroad's tale of woe, but it does seem as if the deer are after me. I just today took the car in for repair, $3900 plus change. Saturday was the first time in a while I had been able to cruise my place and check my trees. Sure enough, one of my Carpathian walnuts had been visited by a buck. I hope it still has enough bark to survive. One of my pecans had also been rubbed, but it didn't go through the outer bark. So I spent a while putting some welded wire fencing around each trunk....just a little 8" circle up to the lowest branches. That should discourage rubbing, and if a buck still goes after the lowest branches, well they will be getting trimmed off anyway down the road.
Chuck