jose20kay

So I havent seen any scrapes or rubs. How am I supposed to find them.when is a good time to use my magnum dripper and how do í know where to set up my mock scrape

alleyyooper

I would not look for rubs till about a month before peak of the rut. Scrapes seem to pop up about the same time every year too. All that gimmick stuff is what ever you want to do.


Al

Champlain Islander

I agree. I never got into setting up mock scrapes in advance. My way of hunting was to stay out of the area I was going to hunt to not alert deer of my presence. If you are hunting and hit a natural saddle with some natural scrapes a mock would be a good tool to possibly promote competition and plan on spending some time in that area. I am a still hunter and always moving so when I hit an area like I described I slow way down and spend some time there. It is interesting at least to me that those special spots are the same year after year. A saddle between mountain peaks especially if it has an old grown up logging road will usually be covered with scrapes. I normally don't spend time around field edges where there are normally scrapes and rubs since most of that happens at night.

alleyyooper

My brother found a funnel many years ago a high dry area between two wet cedar swamps. A old logging trail goes right to the edge of the west most cedar swamp and there was a loop turn around made. My brother put his stand right in the center of that loop. Every year with out fail give or take a day or two scraps show up on that old logging trail within a week many will be the size of a good sized garage floor. Every year either the first day of fire arm season or second he collects a decent buck there. Such are funnels.


Al

Champlain Islander

That's the kind of honey hole I am always looking to find. I have found a few through the years and unless there has been logging it always stays the same. Loaded with buck sign and almost a sure thing unless you over hunt it or go in when the wind isn't right.