Your Pee in a Scrape

[sqiggy]

I did a "Myth Busters" while in Kansas 2 weeks ago. Bucks were just starting to lay down their scrapes. We have all heard a scrape is sacred ground. Don't touch it!!! Don't get close to it.
Then I've heard for years, don't pee around where you hunt. And God forbid you ever pee near a scrape.
So I did a little test, well, really been doing it for yrs now, but some folks over on another site are really "old school". All I did, was take a stick, rake the ground just like a buck would do and then I peed in it. I also made sure I had a "licking branch" hanging over it. Then I put my camera up. Sorry, no pics of me peeing!!! Don't want nobody mad at me!!!
Anyways, the pics I'm going to post is what came in in just ONE NIGHT!!!
You can say this "myth" is BUSTED!!!

[sqiggy]

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If you look real close, you can still see the "wet spot" in the scrape where I peed!!!

[txlawdog]

Let's see some of the pics, I'm tired of peeing in a little neck bottle all the time....lol, seriously everyone I know won't even talk about peeing anywhere near the stand, feeder, etc.......they always say deer don't mind #2 but don't pee close to anything. Kinda difficult to separate #1 and #2. Waiting on the results.

[red]

I've watered the ground too in fake and real scrapes and never seen one go cold. Deer still visit them

[sqiggy]

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[charlie mcmahan]

I've done it in the panhandle before in a real scrape and it doesn't seem to bother them at all.

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[muley4x4]

I always pee right there. Not sure wether or not I am correct! Just always done it!

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[TxouT]

I did my own "test" on this as well. I found two scrapes near one of my setups in Marion Co. Both were reasonably recent, but not terribly fresh. I peed in one and left the other untouched. When I revisited them four days later the one that I "freshened" had been torn up and the other had been abandoned. Not proof, but something to think about....

[Guest1]

Every scrape I see... until I run out of "@ee"

Make mock scrapes that way too.


Thanks for posting up the results of your study.

[sqiggy]

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[Big Brass]

I found a small scrape in mid October in the National Forest and peed in it on my way out. I hunted the area again 2 days later and that scrape was tore up. It had almost tripled in size.

[BrianL]

I tried this same thing a couple of weeks ago. I had several scrapes around my bow stand, but made a "new" one. The bucks actually stopped using of the others and started using the one I made.