start your scrapes

Chris McCann · 10-02-2008, 01:30 PM

just food for thougtht, start your scrapes now. I will start my by the middle of sept. I either will use an old scrape location or I will start a new one to entice that a buck visit my new location. Make sure that licking branch is 5 to 6 of the gound. I like to use tarsal gland, orbital gland and reg buck urine to start my scrapes. Reactivate once a week, but make sure you are scent free when you visit it just like you were hunting. this might add just another element to you experience this fall.

**BowtechTurkeyHunter** · 10-02-2008, 07:57 PM

A bit to early to start that here in Iowa but yep its definately coming up here ...

Steve

**wtnhunt** · 10-03-2008, 07:07 AM

Community scrape activity here seems to be picking up some. Will probably start some mock scrapes in the next week or two.

**ThethirdI** · 10-03-2008, 10:14 AM

I started making mine two days before opening day here in OHIO. I have already had some visitors to my mock scrape so far. In the early season I hunt in a valley that is just a hundred yards or so from a heavily used bedding area. In the later fall when the rut begins the bucks come here to look for the ladies. I have had the pleasure of seeing many nice bucks even though it's on public land, but they are not kind enough to ever give me a shot opportunity.

Maybe this year my luck will change.