Lets Talk Mock Scrapes

[Squirrel]

what do you guys use to make them? Do you take a stick to stir up the dirt and scrape it up? I was thinking about using code blue this yr does anyone use it or have any thoughts on it? I plan on a week or two before the opener of firearms season to start making a couple and checking them every couple days is this good practice or should i set it and forget it until the opener? I know alot of questions but this is something that I have never played around with and was curious if you guys do this and have success with it.

[aquaassassin]

Start the mock scrapes now, the real ones are popping up all around my stands already, use a stick and get rid of the stick after avoid as much human scent as possible and if you don't have a licking branch above it you are wasting your time. This time of year I like young buck urine to provoke a dominant bucks territorial attitude to kick in then around the last week of October I will start playing with estrus

[Squirrel]

Start the mock scrapes now, the real ones are popping up all around my stands already, use a stick and get rid of the stick after avoid as much human scent as possible and if you don't have a licking branch above it you are wasting your time. This time of year I like young buck urine to provoke a dominant bucks territorial attitude to kick in then around the last week of October I will start playing with estrus

you the man Frank thanks.. Licking stick? so you are saying make sure i make the mock scrape under a small spruce or hemlock where there are overhanging branches?

[hesseltine32]

I experimented with it last year. I made them with a stick and all had licking branches.  I got the most pictures over the one I put doe urine on. Got lots of pics of does and fawns as well on it. I used my own urine in one and dominate buck in the other not a noticble difference in amount of deer visiting. A lot of the pics were at night and almost all muture bucks that visited were at night.

[Squirrel]

I experimented with it last year. I made them with a stick and all had licking branches.  I got the most pictures over the one I put doe urine on. Got lots of pics of does and fawns as well on it. I used my own urine in one and dominate buck in the other not a noticble difference in amount of deer visiting. A lot of the pics were at night and almost all muture bucks that visited were at night.

awesome input man thank you

[bassranger]

I made a couple near a few of my stands over the weekend. This time of year I just pee in them. Last year I had bucks take over most of the scraps I made. Once it gets close to the rut I spray them with buck bomb doe estrous. Had my chance twice last year at bucks that had taken over a scrape that I had made. Unfortunately I whiffed on both. 

[Squirrel]

Good stuff bassranger ill give it a try. hope you smoke a monster this yr to make up for it, you already are having a banner year

[Adrock]

Great topic.  Awesome info, I'll have to give it a try, I've always thought about it but never sure how it would work. 

[Squirrel]

does anyone have more info on the whole licking stick idea? I remember seeing broken branches above most all scrapes I have found in the woods.

[bassranger]

Bucks rub there forehead glands on the stick or branch to leave a scent behind. I see alot of scrapes under hemlocks with a branch that hangs down around 4ish feet off the ground. So thats where I make my mock scrapes. They probably make a scent you could by to rub or spray on the licking branch i don't know i have never looked into it, but I bet it would help.

[Squirrel]

awesome thanks man

[hesseltine32]

They also will lick/nibble on the end of it.  I'm not sure why they do Iv just watched them somebody on here will probably know. I'd assume it's something to do with scent.

[dt5150]

i don't use any urine in mock scrapes other than my own. i had one that i started last year, was a very busy scrape. bucks and does were both hitting it around the clock. come the first week of november, i put some code blue standing estrous in it. well that was a mistake.. the scrape went stone cold immediately after while another scrape i made less than 50 yards away was still very active. no more fake scents in scrapes for me.

the only scent i will use on a scrape now is paul pollick's pre-orbital gland sprayed on the licking branches. did a test last year. side by side (about 50 yards apart), the scrapes with it drastically outperformed the ones without it. i just use that, and my own urine (and scuff up the ground of course). 

[Squirrel]

i don't use any urine in mock scrapes other than my own. i had one that i started last year, was a very busy scrape. bucks and does were both hitting it around the clock. come the first week of november, i put some code blue standing estrous in it. well that was a mistake.. the scrape went stone cold immediately after while another scrape i made less than 50 yards away was still very active. no more fake scents in scrapes for me.

the only scent i will use on a scrape now is paul pollick's pre-orbital gland sprayed on the licking branches. did a test last year. side by side (about 50 yards apart), the scrapes with it drastically outperformed the ones without it. i just use that, and my own urine (and scuff up the ground of course).

awesome some great info can you get that gland scent anywehre or is it a particular store that offers it?

thanks for the intel

[dt5150]

you have to order it online. i've never tried smokey's brand pre-orbital gland (their competition), but paul pollicks is way cheaper and it comes in a spray bottle which makes for super easy application.

http://www.deerlures.com/