RE: Found first scrape - now what
Hunt the scrapes. I have taken most of my deer over scrapes. I arrowed a doe on Saturday morning 8 yards from the base of my tree. the arrow shot was a pass thru taking out the right lung and the top of the heart. Lots of blood!! She only went 20 yards and died. Prior to this I only had trail cam photos of bucks as evidence of their being there. Sunday morning I found a scrape 5 yards from where I shot the doe. Licking branch and all. Sunday afternoon I found a good rub not 10 yards from the new scrape. This rub was not there in the morning. The smell of the blood must have gotten this buck all worked up. It's rained for the last 2 days now and I can't tell if the scrape has been reworked but I know where I'll be the first chance I get to hunt. All of this is taking place in my front yard along a tree line.