Do you wait till muzzleloader just out of preference (for the weapon or colder temps, less bugs, etc) or do you wait just because that's the best time for buck movement regardless? I think im hunting near my scrapes too early with my bow when I should wait a few weeks. Still learning all this.
Some of those scrapes aren't very intrusive, so I'll check them more often. Some are more secluded and I want to very much limit the traffic. I wait until muzzleloader for optimal time in those secluded locations for bucks to be on their feet cruising and starting to bump a few does around.
Let me preface: I never hunt a location because a scrape is located there, however, by happenstance, scrape locations and my stand locations coincide often. Hence, I may hang a stand at a pinch point, and also have a scrape there with a camera hanging due to it being a travel highway. When I am sitting in that stand, the thought has never crossed my mind that "I hope a buck comes and checks this scrape". I'm simply hunting there due to deer traffic in general.
If I were bow hunting a scrape, it would certainly be in a less intrusive area. I have one scrape in mind now that we traditionally get daytime older buck pics during the last two weeks of October. It is a long, slim ridge with a steep and narrow cut that comes up to the top of the ridge. The deer cross there. I've had a scrape there for over 10 years. Right next to the road. That's where I'll be in a few weeks, probably in my saddle depending on wind