Mock scrapes in July?

[rhendrix]

Trying to get an inventory of what bucks I have on my lease right now...I haven't seen a scrape line the number of years I've hunted there but I know where ther are known travel corridors and killed a buck last year on one. Can I set up a mock scrape line along one of the travel corridors this early?

[DJM]

I've seen fresh scrapes in August.Give it a try.

DJ

[Bowhunter004]

I'm going to say no, I wouldn't think deer would be territorial yet being they are still in bachelor groups. I would just setup the cam on the travel corridor and hope to get pics of a big bachelor group

[rhendrix]

I'm going to say no, I wouldn't think deer would be territorial yet being they are still in bachelor groups. I would just setup the cam on the travel corridor and hope to get pics of a big bachelor group

Hopefully I find something when I go up there Friday...I've set up on two now though and have nothing but does. Unfortunately our buck to doe ratio is something like 1:3 or 4, easily, so they stay in the thick nasty stuff.

[rhendrix]

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[MAHAFFEY]

I'm going to say no, I wouldn't think deer would be territorial yet being they are still in bachelor groups. I would just setup the cam on the travel corridor and hope to get pics of a big bachelor group

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[txdukklr]

I'm going to say no, I wouldn't think deer would be territorial yet being they are still in bachelor groups. I would just setup the cam on the travel corridor and hope to get pics of a big bachelor group

no expert but this sounds right

my bucks are all together and most are still in velvet. I'd think scrape lines would be odd

[rhendrix]

So somewhere around mid-September would be more ideal then? What are some other ways to get an inventory of what bucks are on your property using a trail camera?

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[buckmastertexas]

Absolutely! Though Deer don't scrape a lot this time of year, I definitrly have found 4 or 5 this time of year, and I have seen tracks in old scrapes, where they just stepped through the scrape.

Put out a little deer scent as a extra teaser for them to get within camera range.

I've mocked up a few and had deer close to them,this year, not really giving any attention to the scrape itself, but I was set up right on their travel corridor.

[keep]

Careful getting deer scrapes in Aug confused with mt lion scrapes. Both animals do it but a cat does it all the time as best I understand during the times I spent mt lion hunting. The guide said there was no telling how many I had walked by in my life thinking they were deer scrapes, they said there is usually 2 dirt marks on a cat scrape instead of one big one although the 2 can run together and look like one. They showed me one then drug a dog over by it and the dog came unglued wanting to go after the cat. I had never heard of it till then.