It is said they do but not in the frenzy that whitetails conduct scraping behavior. I have trailcam pics of bucks tending overhanging limbs with forehead and preorbital scent, but I have yet to see a pawed up scrape on the ground. I used to claim they did not do this but since I have learned that they will scrape and urinate in them. I'll fully buy into this as regular or normal blacktail behavior when I see it firsthand. I've hunted whitetail scrape lines and you'd be bonehead blind not to see a series of scrapes around the perimeter of any open field. Blacktails don't behave this way, in general.
Rub lines are a whole different deal, and in my opinion, what you should be paying attention to. They will mark the territory and rutting areas with fairly well-defined rub lines. These are the areas I key in on for rut stands above all else. Most core rutting areas will have old traditional rub trees that get refreshed annually, with emphasis on willows.
