Mock Scrapes?

[dave12341234]

Has anyone been having any luck with these lately?

[sticknstring]

It's peak breeding right now. I wouldn't get too excited about hunting over scrapes. Wait until around Thanksgiving and they'll start checking them again.

[buckhunter21]

Yep, best times are usually pre rut and then right after the peak rut has past and most does have been bred.

[FISHINGURU]

I had a 6 pointer and a 4 pointer go into both of the mock scrapes i made on saturday...i just pee'd in one of them about 2 or 3 hours before hand.

[B-man715]

I just shot a nice 10 while peeing on my mock scrape (Sunday morning).

It won't pull deer in from a mile away, but can stop or slow down a cruising buck.

Like the others guys said, scrape activity is pretty slow during the chase/breeding phase.

[dave12341234]

What scent should i use then. Estrus on a few wicks? Estrus on a drag rag? Im not sure?

[1eyeReD]

Wait what?

B-man715 and FISHINGURU..

Do you guys literally "pee" in your mock scrapes? Or was that just a way of expressing that you poured some type of bottled deer pee on the mock scrapes?

[sticknstring]

Yep - works great. Try it out, you won't be disappointed.

[FISHINGURU]

i first read about it in a book when i was young and eager to learn everything i could about deer and deer hunting...a guy by the name of charles alsheimer has wrote some phenomenal books..i'm sure any of you guys that read mags or books about deer have heard about him...he's also been doing the research about the moon and the rut for some 15 years.

anyway he says once urine breaks down in the dirt mixed with air it all smells the same within a couple hours...so think how much that tiny 7-8 dollar bottle of buck or doe pee costs ya and then look how much you can pee out yourself lol...like $100 worth in one session.

i thought he was crazy since no one ever went to the bathroom by there stand and brought bottles along to go in...but one day in my stand right before dark i had to go so bad that as soon as it got dark i went over there and let it go for about 5 minutes straight....the very next evening i shot my biggest buck to date ( 15pt pope n younger ), he went right into that scrape i just pee'd in the night before and went loco in there...he thought he missed out on a big pee party lol.

so ever since then whenever i see a scrape by my stand or i make mock scrapes thats what i do...just the story i told a few posts up was opening day shotgun i had to go real bad at about 2pm so i got down out of my tree and went in the scrape...about half hour before dark i had 2 bucks come right out of the thicket behind me and go right to that scrape and start to work it.

do some research on it and report back....next step for me is the getting the ol ladies tampons out there lol.

[1eyeReD]

next step for me is the getting the ol ladies tampons out there lol.

Haha, let us know how that works!

[Deitz Dittrich]

I just puked in my mouth a little.

[BLACKJACK]

I talked to a guy the other day that has had luck with making his own scraps by scraping the ground under a branch and peeing in them, he says they work!! Haven't tried it myself but will someday!!

[BLACKJACK]

i first read about it in a book when i was young and eager to learn everything i could about deer and deer hunting...a guy by the name of charles alsheimer has wrote some phenomenal books..i'm sure any of you guys that read mags or books about deer have heard about him...he's also been doing the research about the moon and the rut for some 15 years.

fishinguru, I've also ready a lot of Charles Alsheimer's stuff in Deer and Deer Hunting, good info and good photo spreads. Not sure I buy into his moon theories though, I could tell you that sometime in the first two weeks in November will be good - every year!! Most experts say the rut comes at about the same time every year because of day length.

[B. Amish]

i've wizzed in scrapes too, they still get used. i've started scrapes by wizzing in them in september and they get used all the way trough the rut.

[sticknstring]

I've never put much stock in the moon times either but this year I had quite a bit of action during mid-day hours on the trail cams. Out of curiosity I grabbed a moon guide and correlated the days/times and it was spot on. Interesting for sure. It doesn't do me any good as I'm not able to hunt during the day except weekends which I always do in November but for those of you who can, the evidence is definitely there. This weekend the peak will be between 10-11am so try and sit until noon if you can.