Mock scrapes??? What's the deal?

[Xi Bowhunter]

What is the best way to make a mock scrape?? What do you guys use? where do you place them and ect.... Any advice will help!

Matt Goetz

[.300Savage]

Clear a spot close to a well used trail and pee on it. Make sure that there is an overhanging branch that goes over the cleared area.


Rocco

[Pooge]

How high and what size on the overhanging branch?

[.300Savage]

I usually like the branch to be around 4 feet high. This would serve as a "licking branch" for the bucks to rub their heads and antlers on. Good luck!

Rocco

[Pooge]

Thanks for the info...

[Xi Bowhunter]

Pee on it? Use my pee, or deer pee? I read the topic about humans peeing on a scrape? But I am still skeptical.

Matt Goetz

[Redneck]

They make those Dripper things that you can fill up with scent and place over the scrape too. I think its called "active scrape"

Chase Powell

[Wildcat]

I make mine just like 300Savage said. I pee in it and sometimes use buck urine. I also use a forehead gland lure on the over hanging branch.

I use the dripper for a long term scrape.

[P. Beyer]

In addition to "mock" scrapes, I like to go and re-fresh
existing scrapes daily, usually around 11:00 or 12:00
I don't know if that matters, but I'd like to think it conditions deer to <i>check</i> these scrapes during daylight hours.

As far as mock scrapes, I just pick a spot, sometimes at random, sometimes off or on a main trail. Pick up a stick, clear the leafs, apply pee-pee of your choice. I also do a little twisting and breaking of some of these licking branches. [:D]

"It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent"

Fred Bear

[holedigger]

My scrape hunting is a little complex but it has brought me several good bucks right through the wheelhouse.

1) Always be as scent free as possible I wear a scent lock liner,latex gloves and I spray down real good before walking in the woods.

2) I have a scrape kit that I use to carry all my scrapes in the woods, I bought it at home depot,it's a small (similar to a mini tool box or tackle box that is airtight and locks down, I also use a small garden tool the size of a hammer that is flat on one end and has 3 prongs on the other end(also bought at home depot)

3) like P.Beyer I go in the woods in the middle of the day somewhere between 12-2 and freshen the scrapes.

4)I like to make cluster scrapes vs just one or two randomly spaced out, I find a good funnel spot where I usually already have a tree stand set up and I make a half circle starting at 8 o'clock looking out of my tree stand and ending at 2 o'clock.

5) My scrapes are the size of a trash can lid and I dig about 7 inches down and make a small hole and use about a peanut size drop of james valley scrape gel in the hole, cover it up then I use the same amount of Lethal weapon on the scrape surface,then I use james valley wall-hanger gel on the overhanging branch that I usually try to break a little bit.

6) I never use my own pee in the scrape,mainly because I had 160-170 inch 12 pointer come in one time and headed to one of my scrapes I had just peed in and he hung up about 50 yds out and scent checked them and freaked out and left me sick.

This is just what has worked for me and it has taken several years to figure it out using a lot of different scents.

Good luck

[Boss Gobbler]

I have made mock scrapes with little results. I have had a lot of luck with freshing existing scrapes. On my land there are three existing scrapes that I open up every year first with buck urine then later with doe in heat. These three scrapes are opened and worked every year. In the last three years I have taken a 180 class, missed a 160 with my bow, and this year I took a 140 class ten point and my dad took a 155 ten point just a week apart. I now put a lot of time in on hunting scapes.