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Post by freedomrules3 on May 6, 2005 20:50:28 GMT -5
has anyone ever tried this in earnest? I have dickered in it but never really kept up on the scrapes. i've used drippers but i dont think they are the same as a bonified scrapeline. anyone tried with success any mock scraplines. i'm gonna do one out back of the house this fall and actually work it till rut just to see what happens.
Rick
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Post by Buckfever on May 7, 2005 16:41:07 GMT -5
I have used them extensively in the past and will likely again in the future as I learn remote thickets in the public lands that I am principally hunting now. I think the first thing in any sign is to make an assessment of when the sign is likely being made. Whether it be scrapes or rubs it is not a hard deal to assess the proximity to a bedding area and when that sign is being layed down. Won't do any good if it a night time location. I can't tell you how many times I've seen guys set up on scrapes(really sign in general) that are in the wide open and then complain about all the sign and no buck sightings. Then the thing with mock scrapes is that they need to be placed in the general area in which scrapes will occur naturally. I look to an area adjacent to a bedding area. The bedding area itself will have numerous cluster rubs in and around it and then just past that in an area that first intersects or comes close to a heavy doe travel corridor, is where I want to setup the mock scrapes. What I do is set up a scrape line that intersects that buck travel corridor on the way to the doe travel corridor. I make a series of small mock scrapes, lay down a scent trail connecting them and make a big scrape right on the faint trail that I believe is the buck trail. I set up stand so that I have good cover and have shooting lanes covering the scrapeline. The last year i did this type of hunting was 2 years ago, in an area I never hunted before and I saw 7 different bucks come in on this one setup and 3 different ones on the other setup. All 10 deer were seen in the 2 weeks after natural scrapes started showing up. I had a good 8 point pass the scrape line and literally jump back, get on the scrape line, hit the first scrape then the second and put his nose in the big one for a good minute before he trotted off. In the right situation, in the right setup they can be deadly.
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Post by DaveHawk on May 10, 2005 13:35:39 GMT -5
Rick, I took a 132" a few years back, when he came to the dripper.
Now a days If I were to make a scrape I just use my heels to draw back the dirt and take a big leek or small one if I'm making a line of scraps
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Post by ncboman on May 15, 2005 20:48:00 GMT -5
I don't play with the deer like I once did but after I get my climber attached, I often make a scrape or two exactly where I want the deer to stop. Sometimes I leave em just fresh earth smell and sometimes I take a leak in em.  |
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Post by kentucky_redneck on May 15, 2005 21:08:44 GMT -5
I remember my hunting buddy once told me that when he was younger his dad would put him up in his stand and take a leak on a tree a few feet away on a tree.Hsaid it mad him so mad until on year he killed a buck that came and licked the tree that he peed on.
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Post by DaveHawk on May 16, 2005 6:10:53 GMT -5
Sometime it take old Thomas a while to get the message.
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Jim
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Post by Jim on May 18, 2005 12:35:56 GMT -5
I'm a firm believer in peeing in scrapes and have also seen many deer walk up and sniff the gut pile from the previous day's hunt. They are very curious creatures and it can be their downfall.
Don't know where to post this as I'm new here but I will post some pics of some pretty angry tree rubs tonight as I always take my camera with me for the bad days.
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Post by DaveHawk on May 18, 2005 14:15:57 GMT -5
JIM, welcome to the forum, I'd like to see them rubs.
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