scrape question

[diamond hunter]

Ok,I found a scrape yesterday,in a part of my place I never hunt..ha so question,do you guys hunt over scrapes? What do they mean?

 

[cbhunter]

I love finding scrapes but I never target them and hang a stand on them. Hang a camera and you will see that the majority of the action with scrapes take place at night, not all action but most of it. As far as what do they mean? The simple answer is a way of communication/marking territory. It is a great place to get good pictures of what bucks are around.

 

[catman529]

I never hunt scrapes, just see them as a good sign


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[lazer]

If you find one that is getting worked alot it can be the diamond you are looking for...no pun intended,lol....I do hunt them in this case and have killed some nice bucks in alabama that way....

 

[hitek7]

Typically there is a very short window where I get lots of daytime pics at scrapes. I have pics for many years but have not been able to develop a pattern for me to hunt "over" them. They are very good places to put cameras. You can typically figure out what bucks are around if you find a community scrape/licking branch. Have a a few on our place that I keep a camera on starting the first of October.

 

[ROVERBOY]

Hunting over scrapes is usually not productive but, I did kill a nice 7 point a couple years ago. It was early in the morning and I didn't even know that there was a scrape there.

 

[Rob-HC Hunter]

It depends on the type of scrape IMO. Scrapes on field edges or even logging roads can be random in my experience and will be visited by young bucks. They are typically made at night. I have had luck on community scrapes that are in the woods and visited often. The ones that are fresh hot and stinking, I hunt.


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[Tennessee Lead]

My last two bucks were killed at a scrape line with a "community scrape" big as a car hood in the midst of them.


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[Simpleman.2]

It depends on the type of scrape IMO. Scrapes on field edges or even logging roads can be random in my experience and will be visited by young bucks. They are typically made at night. I have had luck on community scrapes that are in the woods and visited often. The ones that are fresh hot and stinking, I hunt.


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This! Find the community Hole scrapes!


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[Simpleman.2]

It depends on the type of scrape IMO. Scrapes on field edges or even logging roads can be random in my experience and will be visited by young bucks. They are typically made at night. I have had luck on community scrapes that are in the woods and visited often. The ones that are fresh hot and stinking, I hunt.


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This! Find the community Hole scrapes! They're bigger than your average scrape typically.


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[Mike Belt]

In my opinion and depending on when and where you find them, scrapes in an area, especially accompanied by big rubs, is some of the best sign I like to find. I don't put much store in field scrapes although once I had 7 bucks at the same time and under the same tree working scrapes at the same time... and I was in that tree. I don't think finding scrapes this early in the season really mean much but as we enter November I start getting interested. Now and until the rut begins more and more of them will start popping up. At some point just prior to the first does coming into estrus there may even be a flurry of scraping. These are some of the best times to have cameras set up on them because you get the quickest inventory of the bucks in that particular area. You can actually tell when the rut has kicked in without ever seeing a deer just by monitoring scrapes. Just as quick as they show up in that flurry they'll all go dead. Hunting over them is usually futile in part because most are made at night. I have killed a couple of decent bucks standing in the middle of them but they were an exception to the rule. Hunting over a random scrape here or there probably won't net you any positive results. Hunting around an active hot scrape line may be quite different. Whenever I can find a piping hot scrape line prior to the rut actually starting where I can stand in one scrape and see the next down the line and so on you can bet I'll be hunting there. Once the rut starts that bet is off. If you find an area to hunt scrapes like this do so but look for sign of deer traveling downwind and parallel to that scrape line and set up down wind of there. You don't have to be able to see the actual scrapes doing so.

 

[Land Between the Lakes]

They can be good to hunt. However, I like to hunt a little distance off of the scrape in a travel route that leads to the scrape. Most of the time where I hunt bucks mostly use scrapes at night until the rut is really going strong.