Let's hear ya'lls experience with scrapes. Every now and then you find that one that's about 3-4 foot in diameter. Same place every year. I personally think it just means more bucks use that particular scrape. Cameras have supported that theory. If I put a camera on a scrape like that I'll get 10 or more different bucks using it. Common sense I guess. Any thoughts on the best type scrapes and locations of them to use a camera on?
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I have always been told. A little scrape doesn't mean little deer, but a big scrape means that a big deer made it.
I have found in east texas 90% of our scrapes are under sweet gums branches. I have seen does, little bucks, and mature bucks all at the same scrape within hours of each other. -
Those big ones are what I call a "community" scrape.. I've seen them many times and a few times I could actually see it while hunting.. Many different bucks, and even doe, would use it..Originally posted by Boone44 View PostComment
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The bigger they are the more active they are. Active scrapes are better so bigger is better.Comment
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There are individual scrapes, then there are community scrapes.
There was an old myth: All deer might make a small scrape, but only BIG deer make big scrapes.
What I have found is that if you get a community scrap going, it will be big. but if you find a scrape line, and find a bigger scrape within it, hunt that one.Comment
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I completely agree with the community scrape. I have a scrape that I believe every deer within 1/2 mile has used in the last month. From a spike to 10+ bucks, 2 mature bucks. Even a party of 6 does messed with it one day.Comment
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There's one in my front yard that has grown in size as the days go by.Comment
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I keep an eye on the holly trees on my place they seem to love them.
I have seen where they even rub the same tree they use for a scrape.Comment
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X2 on the Holly trees. Not sure why they like them but they always hit them in Devers!Originally posted by RTM View PostComment
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Originally posted by GarGuy View Post
This ^^^^^^
Bucks and does will visit scrapes. The bigger the scrape the more it's being visited.Comment
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I just know to find a line of scrapes and hunt somewhere where I can see the bucks moving between the scrapes. Yes, multiple bucks do use the same scrape. I have found a cedar tree on our property that many bucks, foxes and coons like to use for marking. I did not know that cedar trees were so popular for marking. I found a scrape under a cedar tree, put up a camera about a month ago. I found that probably five bucks a day stop by and leave their sent. Then daily there are foxes that mark the base of the tree and even coons that use the tree daily. There are very few cedar trees in the area, but they seem to be the trees to use for sent marking. I never realized that.
Where we used to live, there are lots of cedar trees, mesquite trees, live oaks and huisache trees. After finding the deer like the cedar tree on our property, I go to thinking about the scrape line I found years ago, where we used to live, I think every tree they used on that scrape line were cedar trees. I know that the main trees I found that were the ones we hunted, were cedars. We had multiple good sized bucks that used that scrape line.Comment
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I ve always heard the higher on the tree they are the bigger the racks are on the deer making them. Not the circumference.Comment
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Are you talking about a rub? A scrape is on the ground.Originally posted by Abcdj View PostComment
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Scrape line?? Pre and post..... decent spots......during? Not so much....
Community scrape in a thicket?? Not bad
Rub line through a thicket?? Deadly if he's still alive....Comment
yes a rub!
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