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<blockquote data-quote="Dumbluck" data-source="post: 5512695" data-attributes="member: 22434"><p>I don't chart any data on this but I use scrapes as an indicator for prime times to hunt. This year I felt blind since scraping was almost none existent. I have figured out a system for myself that works extremely well, and I've been very successful using it. I'm typically after 1 maybe 2 bucks in a year if I'm lucky and I try to monitor their scrape activity more than anything when the rut is approaching. Typically the mature bucks might open a scrape early to census the area but they are not real into it. They check the scrape randomly at times. I'm watching for him to make a shift in that scrape behavior. To me that is him shifting what times he shows up and if he shows up more frequent. </p><p></p><p>If he tends to run scrapes at the middle of the night and then all of a sudden shows up a couple hours before or after daylight I'm going after him. The same if he all of a sudden shows up on consecutive days. I've learned that typically he will move in daylight in under 2 days from that time period and I want to be in the woods. He knows a doe in that area is coming in heat at that point. If he goes dark right after that movement, I know he is with the doe and if the woods are wet, I still hunt him. </p><p></p><p>This method for me has been extremely productive. I may not have killed the buck every time but it has always put me in the woods exactly when I need to be there and it has placed some really big deer directly in my lap. There is a very short window of opportunity on mature deer and I really want to be on him right when the first does come into heat, because he's the dominant buck and he gets the first doe in his area. </p><p></p><p>This season though I felt like someone tied blinders on me and spun me around in an office chair because nothing was normal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dumbluck, post: 5512695, member: 22434"] I don't chart any data on this but I use scrapes as an indicator for prime times to hunt. This year I felt blind since scraping was almost none existent. I have figured out a system for myself that works extremely well, and I've been very successful using it. I'm typically after 1 maybe 2 bucks in a year if I'm lucky and I try to monitor their scrape activity more than anything when the rut is approaching. Typically the mature bucks might open a scrape early to census the area but they are not real into it. They check the scrape randomly at times. I'm watching for him to make a shift in that scrape behavior. To me that is him shifting what times he shows up and if he shows up more frequent. If he tends to run scrapes at the middle of the night and then all of a sudden shows up a couple hours before or after daylight I'm going after him. The same if he all of a sudden shows up on consecutive days. I've learned that typically he will move in daylight in under 2 days from that time period and I want to be in the woods. He knows a doe in that area is coming in heat at that point. If he goes dark right after that movement, I know he is with the doe and if the woods are wet, I still hunt him. This method for me has been extremely productive. I may not have killed the buck every time but it has always put me in the woods exactly when I need to be there and it has placed some really big deer directly in my lap. There is a very short window of opportunity on mature deer and I really want to be on him right when the first does come into heat, because he's the dominant buck and he gets the first doe in his area. This season though I felt like someone tied blinders on me and spun me around in an office chair because nothing was normal. [/QUOTE]
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