I've been seeing several good-sized community scrapes on my 80 in NW Minnesota. Saw the first one about 2 weeks ago on a field edge, and in the last week they started popping up in all the usual places. Plenty of rubs for a month, already.
I hunted last night and was counting the scrapes I could see while in my stand. I am in a location at the bottom of a gulley where it flattens out into trails and woods with a bedding area to the south. In that area I counted 7 or 8 different scrapes with a handful of nice rubs to go along with it. I had a pretty nice buck working a scrape last night at 30 yards but he didn't present a shot.
Still a little early here. I usually see scrapes open up last week-week and a half of October. I know where there are some community scrapes that get hit all year to some extent.
I’ve noticed a few small rubs and small scrapes, all near food sources. My trail camera evidence shows more licking branch action than anything else. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Remember to pee in the scrapes you find, it will fire up those bucks. It will literally pee then off, pun intended.
here is the rub I mentioned earlier. Set my cam up just to the left of this but all I got was a little doe walking through. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Here's a pic of a community scrape. It doesn't look like much but it stays fresh year round. That licking branch above is about worn out. I put some new pee in the drip bag and will hunt it next weekend if the wind is right. In the next few weeks there will be scrapes all over that ridge. Especially with all the acorns we have this year. Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk
In about 4 weeks this tree will be shredded. They do it it every year. Just a little action right now. But it's still early. I can't wait for end of October first of November. Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk
I found my first scrape of the season on my way in yesterday afternoon. It happens to be under a nice crabapple tree!
Was out hanging a stand yesterday down wind of what I think is some good bedding area, found a rub and scrape right next to each other, temperature is dropping 30 degrees by tomorrow morning, I will be in that new set Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Scrapes and rubs are definitely visible at this point of the year. Most likely not in the "usual" areas due to high acorn/beech/hazelnut year, that or could be pressure. my field scrapes are also very sparse this year, most of them are deeper into the woods than normal, on the soft edges.
My buddy and I just found both a fresh rub and scrape about 30 yards apart on my property this weekend. Both are new within the past 2 weeks. The scrape was under the same tree where we had a mock scrape except it was on the other side of the tree, so we moved the drips from the mock scrape to a branch on the other side over the natural scrape.
The scrape I peed in. Setting up a blind up tomorrow, so I’m going to check the camera, put some buck urine in the scrape and make the buck even madder. Peeing in a scrape makes me feel so complete as a man.
