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BlackTail Scrape?
« on: November 08, 2009, 11:24:23 PM »
Does anyone know if Blacktails make scrapes like whitetails? I know they respond to rattling or even grunting but I am just curious about scrapes. Thanks for your input! LMN#10

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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 01:46:20 AM »
Yes on the scrapes and I don't know about rattling and grunt.
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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 04:33:12 PM »
I have seen a few over the years.Seems like it's always been on old grown up logging grades.  :twocents:

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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 08:38:37 PM »
Yes they make scrapes, ans scrape lines..

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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 08:47:02 PM »
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. 
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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 08:48:51 PM »
I have personally seen a blacktail scrape.  And it was on an old over grown logging road.  So I think they do.
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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2009, 11:20:28 AM »
Blacktails like to scrape along secluded trails, like many have said, overgrown logging roads and cat trails. People say that they aren't as rutty as whitetails, but I think that there's just plain more whitetails than blacktails, which is why people see 3x as much whitetail rutting activity.  :twocents:

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Re: BlackTail Scrape?
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2009, 11:32:45 AM »
They like fence lines as well.  Old logging roads and creek bottoms seem to be favorites, from what I have seen.

 


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