mock scrapes

[rachunter]

I've read on here how you guy/gals use mock scrapes.I never did this but would like to set some up on my property.Did anyone ever try taking the dirt from an existing scrap form the year before and making one with that? I come across a lot of them when out shed hunting and started think about this and snipping the licking branch.when do you start setting them up?

the one in the pic still smelled.Ya i sniffed it so what 

[ATbuckhunter]

Ive done it, and ive had some success with it. What i do is take a big stick and make the scrape using that to make sure im not too close too it. I usually urinate in it myself for scent as it'll turn to ammonia by the time deer get to it, and they don't seem to care before that time either. I hear that pre-orbital scent put on the licking branch works. Thinking about experimenting with other scents next year. Location is probably the most important part of a mock scrape. Can't bring the deer where they're not. 

[stubborn1VT]

I've never heard of anyone using last year's scrape to start a new one, but it sounds like a good idea to me.  I know deer use the same scrape sites year after year.  Making mock scrapes isn't hard.  Snipping the licking branch is a great idea too.  Go for it!

When I was young, I made a pair of mock scrapes in a couple open spots in a travel corridor full of maple whips.  The buck read the script, and stopped with his nose in my mock scrape, broadside at 60 yards.  I was rifle hunting.  I forgot to chamber a round after climbing into my homemade treestand.  The buck actually flinched when I dry fired on him.  Luckily, he got over it and walked into the second mock scrape, and I took home an older 7pointer.  

[The_Field_Ager]

The scrapes need to be where the deer move through. Setting one up using old material in a zone with little activity will not bring deer in. I have had pretty much zero consistent action over mock scrapes, and I have used branches and dirt from active scrapes. Location location location

[stubborn1VT]

Good points AT, and Happy Birthday.  Hope it's been a good one.  Putting a mock scrape 30 or 40 yards from an existing scrape has worked for me.  I've heard of people using their own urine to start scrapes, but never tried it myself.  Why not?  

[ATbuckhunter]

11 minutes ago, stubborn1VT said:

Good points AT, and Happy Birthday.  Hope it's been a good one.  Putting a mock scrape 30 or 40 yards from an existing scrape has worked for me.  I've heard of people using their own urine to start scrapes, but never tried it myself.  Why not?  

Thank you very much! It has definitely been a great birthday.  The way I see it, you only get an ounce of deer scent in a bottle and about 8 oz in the average persons bladder. Comes out to a big savings to me. 

[rachunter]

i have two main runs that cross my property.i was thinking of putting them on them.There was one on one run but they stopped using it last year.i also didn't anything but does on my property last.i'm going to give it a shot.