Nice Buck. I am thinking about doing a mock scrape this year. Just for research purposes I would like to hunt that mock scape. :
Seriously do you have any suggestions on making a scrape?
I just found likely spots on old road beds and the edges of my food plots,used a limb and started scraping.I put all of them under a likely licking branch and used a reciept off another site for scrape juice and freshened them up.I put out about 14 on 2 tracs that I hunt and have had 4-5 of them worked.I have also noticed alot of new scrapes in some of the areas,some along side my scrapes.Here is another pic.
Man you have some nice deer out there. Where do you hunt? I bought one of those drippers this year and gonna put it out soon. I am not evening seeing any rubs around my house.
Nice buck Killdee. As I have said before I have also had success with mock scrapes. In fact, I watched a longhorn spike work a mock scrape that I had made on opening weekend of gun season this year. I have actually watched three different bucks check a mock scrape that I had made. I have never had one actually paw the ground but all three smelled the scrape and licked the branch and thrashed the branch with his head. I really get a kick out of knowing that I tricked him !!!!!!!!
I've tried mock scrapes before (with some success), but the combination of the game camera to see what visits is really a neat idea. Thanks for sharing!
Here is another small 8 beside a scrape that was made after I put in a fake one the week before.The scrape is on the left and my lock on ladder is on the tree to the right.
killdee