First 8 in to scrape with cotton balls

[Buckstopshere]

After killing a mature doe and swabbing out her mouth with cotton  balls, I zip-tied a couple to a zip-tied overhanging branch to see what  it would do. If you look carefully, you can see a cotton ball fly.

 

  The bucks went crazy. That next day, three came in, also a pair of fawns, and a doe. All couldn't leave the branch alone.This guy is the first in (11/1/10.)

[NYBuckHunter87]

nice video, never heard of that method before but it def looks like it works

[Buckstopshere]

Thanks. Yeah, I thought it up. Zip-tied branches from other hot scrapes work so well...I guess it was a natural! This guy came in on Wed. evening. (11/3/10.) One of the cotton balls is still on the zip-tied branch over the scrape...and you can see him flehmen-ing (open mouth.) He's a big buck, not the biggest rack...but if he gives me a chance, I'd like to take him.

[Kieffer]

Great method. I will def have to give this a try

[First-light]

That is awesome, I will try it if we get a doe early this weekend. I have two huge scrapes that one of the dominate bucks is using. Maybe this will do the trick.

[Buckstopshere]

Good luck guys! Keep me posted how it works out. And take pictures! ;D