Mock Scrapes

[Coker]

Deer have been hitting my mock scrapes for about 2 weeks now. These are a few pics. If you're not using a mock scrape, I highly recommend it. They use them year round especially during the pre rut through post rut. It's a good way to see what is in the area

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Absolutely the best method of getting pics of bucks this time of year. I have cameras on 11 of them. When hunting on the weekends, I drink as much water as I can so I can keep "refreshing" them

 

[rem270]

Usually by mid October if a buck hasn't made a scrape yet where they usually do on my property I go ahead an take a wizz in it and get it started. My favorite time of the year is hanging cams over scrapes.

 

[Specializedjon]

Just make sure you don't eat asparagus the night before.

 

[Shed Hunter]

I've been getting scrape pics since August 23rd. No mature bucks (4.5+) until October though. I also highly recommend scrapes and I recommend starting up on scrape cameras at least by the turn of October. I don't actually make mock scrapes anymore though. Instead I find and old or active scrape that has a licking branch with signs of a lot of use. I believe in confidence the kicking branch is the key to a good scrape.. as well as being in a funnel of course.

 

[ZachMarkus]

Absolutely the best method of getting pics of bucks this time of year. I have cameras on 11 of them. When hunting on the weekends, I drink as much water as I can so I can keep "refreshing" them

Beer works good too

 

[raywa]

What scents do you'll use to make your mock scrapes? I've tried Buck Pre-Orbital and Buck Urine without any success this year.

 

[Tennessee Lead]

What scents do you'll use to make your mock scrapes? I've tried Buck Pre-Orbital and Buck Urine without any success this year.

Your own urine

 

[Tennessee Lead]

I've been getting scrape pics since August 23rd. No mature bucks (4.5+) until October though. I also highly recommend scrapes and I recommend starting up on scrape cameras at least by the turn of October. I don't actually make mock scrapes anymore though. Instead I find and old or active scrape that has a licking branch with signs of a lot of use. I believe in confidence the kicking branch is the key to a good scrape.. as well as being in a funnel of course.

I agree 1000 percent about the limb.

 

[Coker]

I don't use any scents and most scrapes are used year after year. the Deer that visit the scrape leave their own scent. I continually clear the ground each time I hunt near the scrape.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Your own urine

X2

 

[JCDEERMAN]

I agree 1000 percent about the limb.

X2

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Beer works good too

HA I use that as well. I'll be watching football during the day on Saturdays and Sundays having a couple beers, then head out to "freshen up" the closer scrapes and come back to the game

 

[reloadxx]

What scents do you'll use to make your mock scrapes? I've tried Buck Pre-Orbital and Buck Urine without any success this year.

I use deer dander and my own pee and it seams to work on every scaps I make i spray deer dander on the branches and in the scrape then I just pee in the

 

[Colwell1505]

Deer have been hitting my mock scrapes for about 2 weeks now. These are a few pics. If you're not using a mock scrape, I highly recommend it. They use them year round especially during the pre rut through post rut. It's a good way to see what is in the area

Anything particular you add to yours?

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Your own urine

Yep. In a good area you can rake up the ground under any good liking branch, pee in it, put up a camera, and have pictures of bucks peeing in it behind you that same night. It still makes me smile every time I do it thinking about all the gatorade bottles I peed in growing up hunting with my dad so the deer wouldn't smell it.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

It still makes me smile every time I do it thinking about all the gatorade bottles I peed in growing up hunting with my dad so the deer wouldn't smell it.

Same here!

 

[bwgarrett3]

Yep. In a good area you can rake up the ground under any good liking branch, pee in it, put up a camera, and have pictures of bucks peeing in it behind you that same night. It still makes me smile every time I do it thinking about all the gatorade bottles I peed in growing up hunting with my dad so the deer wouldn't smell it.

Me too! I carried a big jug most of the time because I had to pee so much. Just think of all the scrapes I could have made! Haha

 

[Hunter 257W]

Yeah, we used to go to such great trouble to NEVER pee anywhere near where we hunted thinking it would ruin that area for days. Amazing how wrong that was.

 

[Big Pop]

Just be sure to pee then turn on camera. In that order.

 

[cbhunter]

Just be sure to pee then turn on camera. In that order.

Heck my cameras aren't good enough to expose me

 

[redblood]

Heck my cameras aren't good enough to expose me

I resemble that remark

 

[Grandslam11]

I agree 1000 percent about the limb.

How do you identify the perfect limb for making a mock scrape? I ask because I haven't had much luck getting pics on mock scrapes

 

[JCDEERMAN]

How do you identify the perfect limb for making a mock scrape? I ask because I haven't had much luck getting pics on mock scrapes

A good, far reaching limb about sternum to head high in an area that typically receives high traffic. I put mine on pinch-points. Mostly on ridge-tops [where a steep cut (hollow) shoots off to the right or left (or both) and the deer will travel that higher rim portion] and in hollows (where a bunch of points come together). Old logging roads and even new logging roads or trails that are made work well. I have located the perfect area before, but all the over-hanging limbs are too high - I simply follow the limb up a couple feet and bend the limb until it snaps and is just hanging down to the height I mentioned. Field edges have worked well for me too. I pee in every one I possibly can. I try to get it on the limb too if I can.

This year I tried something new - I drove several T-posts in the ground, sawed off the perfect sapling and tied it to the T-post in some new locations. Seems to have worked so far.

 

[Mr. Hawk]

Planted myself a scrape tree in the food plot this year for first time. Pulled the card today, all natural man made scent is all I use. Multiple bucks hitting it already.