All good points. To put my own experience into perspective, I’m hunting on my own home property 99% of the time. I literally live with the deer, and they live with me and my whole family and dogs and yadda yadda. So I am the only person hunting my chunk, but most of the neighbors hunt their own comparable chunks with various features the deer require. For example, my property is not the best bedding, but some bucks do bed there periodically, the south of me has buck bedding and it’s not a hunted parcel, and the north of me has the doe bedding but the neighbor and I are buddies. We don’t share ground but we share intel and BBQ and garden produce (We think we even killed a grandpa/grandson combo of bucks this past season). Anyway, I feel like using mock and existing scrapes could be a way to put a few more minutes of deer activity on our property during the season. I’m not terribly worried about the deer spooking to “human activity” and even though I’m moderately worried about trespassers, I know that surrounding properties are being used for different reasons than ours. Other hunters have other things they worry about comparatively, and are probably using all manner of lures or what have you to make their own mock scrapes. I’m definitely trying to leave very little trace, I agree with you on that. And on public or shared private ground, man I totally get your point. If the deer are already abusing some of the branches and dirt patches though, I feel like they’re basically asking to be killed unless you can confirm most activity at that scrape is nocturnal.