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Deer scrapes.
crooketarrow:
JW here those small scrapes are 1 boundry scrapes from young 1 ,2 year old bucks. Last year just before the rut doe's run that years buck fawn away stops inbreeding. He has to go find his new click. Very seldom is there room where he's ran away from.
This is why so many 1 1/2's get shot every year.
Now a year later he's moved on. Found his own little peice of land where he's not bullyed around to much. He's made boundry scpapes of his new home range. Ruts coming he knows he surposed to do something he just dos'nt know what.
So he go's back to his borndry area and makes more SMALL breeding scrapes. Small plate size scrape's. He makes these when he see's and smells other scrapes made by other bucks. Like I said he knows he's sure pose to do some thing.
If you covered that much land saw only 3 small rubs from last year. Your either scouting the wrong area of or areas. And saw no sign post rubs FROM LAST RUT AND THIS YEARS RUT.
If your a buck hunter like me I'd move on. When I go to a new place I scout in the winter and if theirs mature bucks there. The leave sign from last years rut. If I don't find those 3 foot mateing rubs and those big shinny sign post rubs.
I DON'T THINK TWICE ABOUT MOVEING ON. I can thing of 4 farms through the years I had total hunting rights after scotuing it never hunted it.
The area where you saw these plate size scrape's were likly these 1 1/2 bucks.
Mature bucks not your 2 1/2 and 3 1/2's but say 4,5,6,year old bucks don't even make scrapes. O they work scrapes made by other bucks. Just make them into their breeding scrape. The smaller bucks not going to do a thing about it.
I'm not a scrape hunter anymore exspecially with a bow. But a rifle hunting down wind 75, 100 yards depending on the terain. In the 90's on up to 05 when I quit gun hunting. Me and friend killed so many off real and home made scrapes. That and ringer ridge kills rifles just got to easy.
But setting up right on a scrape very unlikey a mature bucks coming right to it unless it's dark. If theres been pressure in the area. But set up 75,100 yards down wind of the foirst trail you finds. Set up down wind. no pressure dead deer. If you've put pressure on the areas mature bucks. Stay home watch football. Because no 4,5,6 year olds going to show up inthe day light.
BET YOU GIVE YOU ODDS
I have 4 selfbow, mounts 6 rifle mounts, 3 ML, 2 shot gun. 1 pistol (SW 500). All mounts are from bucks 3 1/2 to 7 1/2, 32 skulls, 52 cut off racks. 100 bucks in all, 40 selfbow bucks. Most mounts came from scrapes or finger ridges.
But this year WV. oked cross bows. I killed a doe in school in the 70's. STEEL RECURVE BOW 2x2 four seamed like STEEL CABLE. So next year I just might try to kill a mature buck.Then give it to my youngest son BRIER.
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