What Scents are in a Whitetail Scrape???

[T.R. Michels]

Here is another question from the Whiteail Hunter's Survey - taken earlier this year over the internet  - and the first 50 answers.

You can see that the answers varied - a lot.

I'll let you discuss it - and post the answer in a couple of days.   


11. What scents or body chemicals are found in the dirt of a scrape?

1 urine and the scent from their tarsal glands
2 tarsel, urine
3 Urine
4 Urine, saliva, sometimes feces.
 5 URINE
6 Interdigital, urine, tarsal of bucks
7 Other than urine- IDK
8 DOn't know
9 urine
10 Urine, Tarsal,and interdigital
11 Oils from the scent gland in a deers hoof and urine.
12 urine, pheromones, gland secretions
13 Urine, semen, hormones, interdigital scent and probably pheremons
14 urine, glandular secretions, dander
15 urine and tarsal gland
16 tarsal gland scent and buck urine
17 Buck and doe urine and sents from the glands in the hooves
18 pee and tarsual gland
19 urine, estrus scents
20 urine
21 a buck leaves interdigital by pawing, urine testosterone, saliva and tarsal by rub urinating. does also leave urine and estrogen scents.
22 urine..?
23 urine, scent from tarsal glands
24 urine
25 Urine
26 urine which I assume includes some levels of testosterone in males and estrogen in females plus whatever chemicals are found in the tarsal glands
27 Urine and fiarmones.
28 Urine
29 piss
30 urine
31 urine and sometimes feces
32 urine, droppings, interdigital gland secretions
33 Hormones & urine spray
34 Urine, feces, testosterone from bucks, interdigital gland scent, tarsal gland scent, perhaps saliva driping down from the licking branch on a primary scrape area
35 yes
36 urine and pheremones
 37 piss,pussy,scent glands
38 both buck and does
39 Urine.
 40 Urine, Tarsal gland scents
41 urine ==tarsal
42 urine
43 urine, scent t form leg gland
44 urine,Tarsal gland scent,Scent from a deers feet.
45 Chemicals? No idea? Doe urine.
46 urine and secreations from the tarsal gland
47 Urine drips between the legs of the buck, dropping scent from the metatarsal gland between the leg joints. In addition, there is scent from the hooves and urine from does.
48 urine, tarsal
49 Urine
50 Scents secreted from the tarsal glands and urine

[T.R. Michels]

This question is important - if you wnat to use the correct scents "in" the dirt of a scrape. However, I am not saying you can't use other scents in a scrape, nor that these are the only scents that may be found in a scrape.

Whitetail bucks paw the ground, using several strokes with first one front hoof, and then the other, then they often step foward, crouch a bit with their hind legs close together, and rub-urinate over the tarsal gland on the inside of the leg, leaving behind interdigital scent from between the hooves of each hoof, and urine, testosterone and tarsal scent in the scrape.

They may also defecate in or near the scrape.

Does have been known to sniff, walk through and urinate near scrapes.


May Yahweh-God bless you and your families in these times of need,

T.R. Michels
Trinity Mountain Outdoors