Scrapes are like a deers equivilant of a dating bulliten board, bucks and does urinate in scrapes, bucks are the ones that start them to let everyone know they are around, does will let the bucks now they are around and the buck can tell by the smell of her urine whether they are ready. A buck periodically checks his scrapes and if he finds another buck has used the scrape he will try to demonstrate how big and bad he is by tearing up the scrape even larger than the previous buck. Here is an odd one, human urine will work just as well in a scrape as deer urine, I am not sure how a buck would react to a ladies urine, but I know they will tear up a scrape if a man urinates in it.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club