scrape line hunting question

[savageman]

found a logging road with scrapes on it last week. hunted it this weekend and killed a 6 pointer. What are the odds that other bucks will be using those scrapes? Is this still a good place to hunt?

 

[AXL78]

100%. But killing that other buck may have spooked up the area some.

 

[Mike Belt]

It's almost a given that's not the only buck that was hitting those scrapes. I've spent a lot of time hunting old logging roads that were covered up with scrapes from one end to the other. I think at night bucks will travel the length of these roads scraping. During daylight I almost never see that happening. Instead the bucks I generally see travel the timber crossing these roads and possibly work the scrapes as they're crossing. I'd concentrate on those trails crossing the road in the vicinity of the scrapes but not necessarily over the scrapes. Areas like that sure do look good though.

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

It's almost a given that's not the only buck that was hitting those scrapes. I've spent a lot of time hunting old logging roads that were covered up with scrapes from one end to the other. I think at night bucks will travel the length of these roads scraping. During daylight I almost never see that happening. Instead the bucks I generally see travel the timber crossing these roads and possibly work the scrapes as they're crossing. I'd concentrate on those trails crossing the road in the vicinity of the scrapes but not necessarily over the scrapes. Areas like that sure do look good though.

what Mike is saying,I see my sightings at daybreak,or right before dark.I have killed several by getting 75 yards or so downwind

 

[benellivol]

I've killed a lot of good deer hunting 30 or 40 yards into the timber off of logging roads covered in scrapes.

Does and younger dumb bucks will travel up and down the logging roads like it's an interstate. The older ones criss cross them, staying off them for the most part but use the inside edge of the thick stuff. A few times a year, you'll catch a hoss messing up too.