Do here gets into making mock scrapes?? I have in the past, but to no luck!! What do you use on your mock scrape?? Who uses drip bags??
I'll be giving it a try this year. My BIL owns a deer breding facility. I'll be scraping up dirt from the scrapes there and starting a scrape or two in my woods. I'll let ya'll know how it works out.
End of October. I've had them work and I've had them not work. If you have a real natural scrape you might want to add some buck urine to it, just to p*** the real buck off. Usually they visit scrapes at night, so you might not see one, but as the rut approaches and they have more scrapes to check, they may come in during daylight hours. Once they start chasing does the scrapes pretty much grow cold. I've used a drip bag too, again sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
I have had great luck with mock scrapes. I use drip bags filled with Active Scrape by Wildlife Research. I have even wired or screwed a licking branch up if I could not find one where I wanted it. I usually start them in early October and start hunting them as soon as the mature deer start the pre-rut. Sometimes I will run cameras on them and start hunting them when I begin to get daytime photos. I took a 169" buck with a drop-tine off a mock scrape in 2004. Last year I took a buck on a scrape that was not a mock, but at the right time scrape hunting (mock or otherwise) is as good as it gets. Around here, it usually starts the last 10 days of October and runs until the hard chase is on. Give it a try, its a lot of fun. Be sure to use rubber boots and rubber gloves and stay away from them as much as you can when not hunting. Put your scrape in a good location for wind and easy entry and exit routes.
