Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: LMN#10 on November 08, 2009, 11:24:23 PM
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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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Yes on the scrapes and I don't know about rattling and grunt.
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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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Yes they make scrapes, ans scrape lines..
Hunterman(Tony)
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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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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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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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They like fence lines as well. Old logging roads and creek bottoms seem to be favorites, from what I have seen.
