iccyman001
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- Apr 30, 2014
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What are your feelings about scrapes and deer?
Do you look for them? Disregard them? Hunt over them? Put cameras on them? etc....
A lot of people will say to completely disregard a scrape because the deer are only hitting them at night.
Others will spend countless days hunting over one scrape in hopes to catch a shot at a buck.
What do you think about them?
Me personally, I do think they are useful for patterning deer, but I will be honest, a scrape wont get my too excited except it\'s freshly torn up and has steaming pee still in it.
I do enjoy finding them in conjunction with rubs, because I feel they help tell me the deers story. Where is he going, why is he going this way, etc.
The only types of scrapes that I truly focus on are the ones with licking branches over them and that are fresh.
The first buck I shot this year, right before I put an arrow through his heart, freshened up his scrape and licking branch, 25 seconds before he was shot. He was hot on a doe too and decided to stop and do this.
5 days after that I found another spot with a nice scrape and licking branch. 16:30 that day, a nice buck came in to freshen it up and use the branch. That\'s when I got a little antsy and drew back a little prematurely.
Anyways, I like scrapes, they help me in many ways, even more when it\'s got a licking branch over it.
I should mention that a large community scrape gets me going too. Brad knows all about large community scrapes.
Do you look for them? Disregard them? Hunt over them? Put cameras on them? etc....
A lot of people will say to completely disregard a scrape because the deer are only hitting them at night.
Others will spend countless days hunting over one scrape in hopes to catch a shot at a buck.
What do you think about them?
Me personally, I do think they are useful for patterning deer, but I will be honest, a scrape wont get my too excited except it\'s freshly torn up and has steaming pee still in it.
I do enjoy finding them in conjunction with rubs, because I feel they help tell me the deers story. Where is he going, why is he going this way, etc.
The only types of scrapes that I truly focus on are the ones with licking branches over them and that are fresh.
The first buck I shot this year, right before I put an arrow through his heart, freshened up his scrape and licking branch, 25 seconds before he was shot. He was hot on a doe too and decided to stop and do this.
5 days after that I found another spot with a nice scrape and licking branch. 16:30 that day, a nice buck came in to freshen it up and use the branch. That\'s when I got a little antsy and drew back a little prematurely.
Anyways, I like scrapes, they help me in many ways, even more when it\'s got a licking branch over it.
I should mention that a large community scrape gets me going too. Brad knows all about large community scrapes.
