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<blockquote data-quote="JCDEERMAN" data-source="post: 5440193" data-attributes="member: 5787"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JCDEERMAN, post: 5440193, member: 5787"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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