Scrape identity! Help

[doghouse]

Thats man made

Wasn't man made by any of the family. This is an extremely hard soil area with a few rocks.

[Man]

Wasn't man made by any of the family. This is an extremely hard soil area with a few rocks.

Game cam time

[tbgascorer]

Emu

That's an interesting idea.

[TX_bowhunter37]

I would saw Big foot

[ArrowHead]

Mark, is there any other exotics in that pasture?Emu? Black buck?Axis?

[Gom]

Any chance you have any pranksters nearby? A few years back, we had a joker on a club lease in Lufkin that carried a potatoe peeler in his pocket. He would make big rubs on trees to keep hunters concentrated in areas away from where he wanted to hunt.

[hcshooter]

Yup Mr. Sasquatch for sure

[doghouse]

Mark, is there any other exotics in that pasture?Emu? Black buck?Axis?

None that any of us have seen.

[doghouse]

Any chance you have any pranksters nearby? A few years back, we had a joker on a club lease in Lufkin that carried a potatoe peeler in his pocket. He would make big rubs on trees to keep hunters concentrated in areas away from where he wanted to hunt.

All our land is hunted by family members only. Nobody goes out there very often this time of year. My brother and I go daily, but we haven't been to this area for a few weeks. The scrape is not where you would notice it unless you were just lucky and looked down. My brother spotted it from a 7810 JD tractor.

[doghouse]

After thinking about this for a few hours it may be where I had a salt block and turkey are scratching and eating the salty dirt. Does that make any sense. That's the only thing I can come up with.

[Lewis Stafford]

BLACK PANTHERS make that exact scrape.

[KG68]

Hi y'all I'm the brother Mark's referring to. Someone mentioned mineral lick and that thought has crossed my mind. This area is very hard soil and we have used it for feeding salt blocks when we grazed this pasture but not in the last year. The larger scrape looked almost like it had been swept or licked clean. This whole area is hard rocky ground and is almost impossible to find and follow any type track. Like Mark said one of our neighbors and his wife saw what he described as a young MLion about three hundred yards from these scrapes and my 34 year old daughter saw, in her words, a big long tailed something that wasn't a coyote Sunday afternoon two or three hundred yards from this site as she rode with her kids around the bottom of a rocky, brushy mountain side on an atv. We have had a lot of mystery kills of deer, goats, and sheep over the years on this property we have owned along the Colorado river since the late sixties but never had a mountain lion sighting by a family member.

[Shawn_]

Any chance you have any pranksters nearby? A few years back, we had a joker on a club lease in Lufkin that carried a potatoe peeler in his pocket. He would make big rubs on trees to keep hunters concentrated in areas away from where he wanted to hunt.

Haha! this is actually pretty clever.

[Gom]

Haha! this is actually pretty clever.

Yup. that guy was a real looser. He got kicked off for consistantly stopping off in full view of my wife's box stand to do his squatting business on the way to his stand! One of the reasons I quit joing East Texas hunt clubs!

[doghouse]

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