Can't tell from the pic but my experience with beard rot (and of course you know this) is the tip is brown/rust in color. If you could enlarge the pic maybe you could tell. I think it' a jake. I'm looking close at a jake on one of my cams and he's an identical twin of the one you posted.

Dr. B


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Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris
1938-2017
UGA Class of 1960
BS/MS Forestry
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