Have you ever had one of your mock scrapes push any of your bucks away? In the past, I can't say for sure if it was the mock scrape, but I last year I had a few bucks on camera everyday and when I made the scrape 30-40 yards away, from that day forward, I never got any more pictures of them. I want to start one this year so I can continue learning about deer behavior but I don't want to put them out again. Any advice?
I could be possible that it wasn't your mock scrape, but they caught some of your scent from the scrape and associated that area with danger. The other possibility is that the bucks started chasing does outside of your area.
yaa... I'm thinking the same thing.... ya contaminated your sight with scent that pushed em away... that or your scrap is too big and they think Big Daddy has layed claim to the spot and ran em off
Tough call. I'm getting ready to set a tinks dripper and move a cam on a historical scrape on another part of the property I'm on because I think when I put down corn and a camera to do an inventory, it pushed my target buck away from that area.
what scent did you use ? do you have any experience with that exact scent actually working in your area ? not all scents work everywhere, I've tried some big name brands that did actually spook deer, and even fresh pee from a local deer farm that I stood and watched him hold the bottle while she filled it, the next day that stuff had deer running as soon as they hit the scent wind ?
I had 2 different does come to my mock scrape at different times on the same day. I used scent called scrape juice. 1 doe bolted as soon as she got close. The other wouldn't leave. She stayed for a half hr. circling round and round sniffing right in the scrape.
Well, I know that it wasn't my scent as I'm usually in there once a week baiting with a few hundred pounds of corn. AWK08 - I've tried everything from Tink's to Code Blue to peeing in it on multiple different properties. I haven't found anything that works. Maybe there is a bigger underlying issue. I don't think I'm going to gamble with the few bucks I'm hunting on my main property this year. I'll experiment somewhere else. I mainly just started this thread to see if someone could point out something that I haven't thought of.
