Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Billy74 on July 25, 2019, 08:16:00 AM
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I was looking through YT videos and ran into mock scrape videos. Being a novice i know nothing really about them. I don’t remember seeing that topic on here and wondered if anyone here uses them or if they’re productive.
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Ive gotten plenty of action on my mock scrapes, both day and night. I dont do all the voodoo crap people tell you you need to do to sell you a bunch of crap. Really i scrape the dirt up with my boot, piss in it myself, and dip the tips of a few overhanging licking branches into a bottle of buck nip. It works.
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Is it effective all year or do you typically make one prior to the season. I might try it out next time i hang cameras. Will it actually attract deer or just get them to stop in an area longer that they already use
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Is it effective all year or do you typically make one prior to the season. I might try it out next time i hang cameras. Will it actually attract deer or just get them to stop in an area longer that they already use
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I make them pre rut, but everything ive read says mature bucks will start making primary scrapes in september, so you might be able to get sone early season action with them, hard to say. As far as attracting them, i always put them where deer will be inclined to move anyway. The majority of scrape visits are in the dark, but ive seen a number of bucks work my scrapes in daylight, and ive watched bucks make scrapes in daylight.
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A few years ago i made a scrape in my yard along the lawn edge where the deer travel down my property to and from the creek bottom across the road. Early morning in mid november, during late rifle season, i got up and looked out my window and watched 4 bucks, all 3.5yr+, basically line up and politely take turns working my scrape. Really blew my mind, because that time of the year you would think they would be pretty intolerant of eachother, but the whole thing was quite civilized.
Here is a little dink buck working that scrape. One thing ive observed though is that the young bucks like this guy hit the licking branches, and may pee in the scrape, but never really paw at the dirt, that behavior seems reserved for 3.5+ yr old bucks.
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Here is a decent buck hitting one of my mock scrapes during shooting light on opening morning of late archery. In this pic he hadnt pawed it yet, but he did after the pic. I should pull out my old laptop and look through it. I have lots of pics of bucks hitting my scrapes, but id have to dig through thousands of pics.
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I watched this guy from one of my treestands last season during the rut bird dogging a doe, and he stopped 4 times to make scrapes, or maybe he was working existing ones im not sure, he was too far away for me to tell. But even though he was hounding a doe, he stopped 4 times to work scrapes, then would scramble to catch up with the doe. If he was in fact working pre existing scrapes rather than making new ones, which is what i suspect, then that speaks volumes about the drawing power of scrapes, that they could repeatedly distract a buck from a hot doe.
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Another buck working my back yard mock scrape. I dont know why i dont put cams on my scrapes more often. Ill be sure to this year. Maybe do one in video mode too.
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They work great for whitetail but not blacktail or mule deer.
