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Mock Scrapes

ricky racer

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A few days ago someone posted a question about mock scrapes asking if they work. I set up a mock scrape 2 weeks ago and set a trail camera overlooking it. I hung a section of grape vine, raked an area under it with a gardening tool, peed in it and left.

Today I ventured in and pulled the card and had a bunch of deer on camera visiting the scrape. Quite a few does but mostly bucks. Here are a few of the pictures.

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Im sold on mock scrapes as well.

It definitely gives them a purpose to walk in front of the camera.

Before on trails sometimes they would walk right down them, sometimes off to the sides kind of random. Now they all sqaure right up on the scrape.
 
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I just put my first one in this year. Walked out of the area and I’m hoping for the best. I won’t be back in that area until first week of October.
 
Tried to get this to upload earlier on my laptop but image was too big. Bunch of does and bachelor bucks cruising it to. Wack it around with their heads a couple times and move on
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Oh and the key is you gotta "get it started". Funny while my neighbor pees in bottles

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A few days ago someone posted a question about mock scrapes asking if they work. I set up a mock scrape 2 weeks ago and set a trail camera overlooking it. I hung a section of grape vine, raked an area under it with a gardening tool, peed in it and left.

Today I ventured in and pulled the card and had a bunch of deer on camera visiting the scrape. Quite a few does but mostly bucks. Here are a few of the pictures.

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Had four bucks around my mock scrapes
 
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Well done. Did you guys execute the mock scrapes in previously known transition/staffing areas?
 
Well done. Did you guys execute the mock scrapes in previously known transition/staffing areas?
I only have 5 wooded acres and dont think I hold any deer, think they just mosey through and grab some acorns between bedding and food. I have a think canopy and almost no ground cover for them to mat down and that's why I said before sometimes they would line up with the camera sometimes they'd be 20 yds off. This really helps to define the travel

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I set one up 5 weeks ago, same setup. Grapevine, cleared the leaves and pissed in it. It is literally 100yards from my back door but is pretty thick and behind a small rise. There was good sign of a faint trail, an old bed and in the midst of some oaks. I am hoping there has been some activity.
VERY interesting idea @Jason Wandling,I may have to try that.
 
Every time I hang a camera I clear the dirt and pee. I also clean the dirt under my stand and pee in it. I did that one time and had a doe walk under my stand and pee in it less than 15 minutes after I did. It works from my experience
hahaha. guess ive done that too but never with intention of bringing in deer. good to know. i usually just try to write my name in the snow or something
 
Went back in my woods today and mock scrap limb was pulled down. Just to show how the mock scrape can concentrate movement some before and after pictures. A little buck yanked it down and after that traffic is somewhat random again (deer circled in red) and covered by brush. Seems before it was pulled down I had more buck traffic (smaller ones) but after I only have 1 picture of a buck over roughly 3 weeks of being down.

Im sold because theyre maintenance free (as long as you dont hang them on dead limbs :confused2: ), concentrate deer movement for getting good pictures of deer coming through and can be a decent spot to hunt over, although not necessarily an attractant.
 

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Wanted to share an interesting observation i had this past Weds night when i harvested my doe off one of my small clover plots. I had started a mock scrape in that location in July and it was getting used right away. As not uncommon there are now three other scrapes established around that small plot. At 10 minutes to 5 the first deer in was a pretty decent prob 2.5 yr old 8 pointer, he fed there for about 45 minutes and never once investigated any of those scrapes. After he left, 6 does filtered into that plot and everyone of them hit at least one or more of those scrapes...makes me curious as to why he paid them no mind and seemed as though it were a priority to all those does? More competition among does for best feeding and breeding in my local herd? Any thoughts? Deer behavior like this intrigues me!
 
In one of my pictures there is a doe on the mock scrape and a larger (probably same 2.5 yr) buck in the background that I had a few pictures of and he never touches it. I only had one mature buck coming through that would hit it and all the smaller 1.5 yr bucks. Every doe/fawn that comes through speed bags the thing. Good observation. No idea why though. I dont have many mature ones in my back yard though.
 
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