Licking branch tree fell over

[boyne bowhunter]

Yes, I did. I hung it right next to a grape vine licking branch that I have over a well used mock scrape. I wanted to see if deer preferred one or the other. Final impressions were deer very slightly seemed to like the vine better but the rope was still well used.
I thought I had pics posted somewhere on the forum. I can't remember if it was it's own thread or part of an existing thread.

I remembered it enough to find it @Allegheny Tom .

Mock Scrapes?

I was curious who here uses mock scrapes? How do you set them up and where? What do you use while creating them? Tell me about your results/success with them.

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[Fgirtyman]

Anyone try manilla rope/cord for a licking branch? It seems like they'd be easy to install (toss over an overhead branch and tie a loop and pull through). Although on public land, someone might tear it down as litter or it might draw attention for a hunter to come back.

Tried the Wenzels rope idea with pre orbital scent on the rope with little to 0 success.

 

[raisins]

Tried the Wenzels rope idea with pre orbital scent on the rope with little to 0 success.

Did you also make a scrape under it in put urine in the scrape? Probably obvious, but you didn't say.

 

[Fgirtyman]

Did you also make a scrape under it in put urine in the scrape? Probably obvious, but you didn't say.

No, never put urine under it. just raked the ground up with a stick. Maybe urine would have helped. Maybe try it next time.

 

[raisins]

No, never put urine under it. just raked the ground up with a stick. Maybe urine would have helped. Maybe try it next time.

A lot of guys just put their own in it. I guess after a few days it all smells the same. Hard to believe, but I guess it is true.

 

[Fgirtyman]

A lot of guys just put their own in it. I guess after a few days it all smells the same. Hard to believe, but I guess it is true.

I found that out years ago. I peed on a logging road and found a scrape there a few days later. Seen it happen a few other places since.
Tink's doe pee was actually rabbit (doe) pee. DIY pee is cheaper....lol

 

[raisins]

I found that out years ago. I peed on a logging road and found a scrape there a few days later. Seen it happen a few other places since.
Tink's doe pee was actually rabbit (doe) pee. DIY pee is cheaper....lol

If I start making mock scrapes, I've considered peeing in a jug and bringing it with me. I'd hate to be out there and not have to go more than 2 drops!

 

[Jammintree]

A lot of guys just put their own in it. I guess after a few days it all smells the same. Hard to believe, but I guess it is true.

Yeah, all pee quickly turns to ammonia and then makes a cycle through several phases and becomes nitrogen. The difference is that We don’t add any tarsal musk to ours. But any urine in a scraped up area seems to draw them in. Wether or not it’s in a place they want to maintain is another matter.

 

[LAKY]

I'd put a vine over it too. They get visited even this time of year. No need to use any scent.

 

[kbetts]

Yeah, all pee quickly turns to ammonia and then makes a cycle through several phases and becomes nitrogen. The difference is that We don’t add any tarsal musk to ours. But any urine in a scraped up area seems to draw them in. Wether or not it’s in a place they want to maintain is another matter.

Ammonia is a form of nitrogen.

Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate.

 

[raisins]

Yeah, all pee quickly turns to ammonia and then makes a cycle through several phases and becomes nitrogen. The difference is that We don’t add any tarsal musk to ours. But any urine in a scraped up area seems to draw them in. Wether or not it’s in a place they want to maintain is another matter.

I'm just surprised that despite the similarities that there isn't enough of a difference that deer haven't figured out how to detect predator urine with their super noses and avoid it.

 

[PEEJAY]

I'm just surprised that despite the similarities that there isn't enough of a difference that deer haven't figured out how to detect predator urine with their super noses and avoid it.

I am too. But i have been peeing in scrapes for years now and it definitely works. We used to put out fox pee to scare away squirrels from our bird feeders when i was a kid. now i wonder if its all snake oil salesmen pissin in a bottle.

 

[Jammintree]

I'm just surprised that despite the similarities that there isn't enough of a difference that deer haven't figured out how to detect predator urine with their super noses and avoid it.

We don’t pass our urine across hairs that carry glandular oils like deer and dogs and lots of other critters. Also, Ammonia is a very powerful substance - such that humans often use it for breaking down and removing all kinds of substances in both home and industrial cleaning processes.

 

[raisins]

We don’t pass our urine across hairs that carry glandular oils like deer and dogs and lots of other critters. Also, Ammonia is a very powerful substance - such that humans often use it for breaking down and removing all kinds of substances in both home and industrial cleaning processes.

I think some do the first time they try to pee out of a saddle.....