mock scrapes

[dakids]

Who makes mock scrapes?
When do you make them?
What do you use to start them?

I myself will start them in a couple of weeks. I start them by finding a low hanging branch near a heavily used deer trail.  Never touch the branch, scrape the ground below branch with a stick to remove all the grass and leaves and then take a wizz myself in the dirt.  I never thought it would work myself but after hanging a cam and having 13 different bucks hit the scrape that first night I was sold.  I have never bought the mock scrape in a can but they might work better or not.

[Cody Gruchow]

ill start my mock scrapes by the middle of october around the 16th to the 18th. maybe sooner if i spot a scrape already. i refresh the bigger scrapes that have been established every year. never have hunted over these scrapes but im going to try this year. i use the store bought scrape dripper and deer pee

[glenn57]

i should try that......both where i bow hunt and when i head up north for a week in oct!!!!!!! i just dont wanna be sexually assualted in the woods!!

[Sew Sille]

Could happen!

[deadeye]

Yesterday we saw a few small scrapes while tooling around.  Nothing serious but clearly scrapes made by deer.  Probably just instinct and not related to rut.  

[Cody Gruchow]

deer establish scrapes as early as august to mark there territory. they dont hit them to hard until the rut starts to heat up.

[Goosepond Monster]

I cleared out a couple of spots in the woods.  I'll probably wait a few weeks before I put any kind of scent/pee in them. 

[lentz]

Do you really pee on it
There's one about 20 yards from the one I hunted last year and i know it's from this year because there's a rub on the tree

The one I hunted last year might be reopened because there's no leaves and tracks in it

But rumor had it bucks necks are starting to swell and there has been some chasing sited in amery/st croix falls

[Goosepond Monster]

Do you really pee on it
There's one about 20 yards from the one I hunted last year and i know it's from this year because there's a rub on the tree

The one I hunted last year might be reopened because there's no leaves and tracks in it

But rumor had it bucks necks are starting to swell and there has been some chasing sited in amery/st croix falls

I had one I made last year that I would pee in on my way out of the woods.  I had bucks showing up to check it out, but they were always there at night.

[lentz]

You should try altering your pee times so they might come in the day

[Goosepond Monster]

You should try altering your pee times so they might come in the day

Good point.  Maybe I should pee in the scrape on my way to the stand instead of by the truck before I hit the woods.

[stevejedlenski]

we have a video from yesterday of a mature buck urinating on his tarsal glands. not sure if he made a scrape there or not as im out of town and my bro sent it to me, but i would say it would be safe to start a moc scrape now.

[Goosepond Monster]

I picked this up yesterday...



I'm going to add it to my mock scrape this weekend to see if I can get something to show up for the opener on Monday. 

[lentz]

I don't need to make one I have 6 in a 30 yard radious 2 from last year reactivated and the domonit that worked one last years back

Have photos of 4 or 5 different bucks on the biggest none and I put the cam out Sunday midday and checked today