I love when it gets down to insults....lol.
THE reason I mentioned "generalities" is.....it's a guess unless you see the animal use the scrape or rub. How do I know? One morning, '05 season....I set up 9 yds from an active scrape. 1st buck that worked it was a half-rack spike. Disappointed...I thought at that time he was the only one using it. Next buck to use it was a nice little 6-pointer. NEXT buck to use it.....another 6-pointer. LAST buck to use it, that morning....was a BUTTON BUCK.
Big boy strolls by the field edge at 10:15 that morning and never gives it a look or sniff....though he came within 6 or 7 yds of it.
If a man wasn't sitting in my tree that morning.....what could this scrape tell him?
Then, with scrapes, the buck that made the scrape is not the only buck that will visit it. A dominant buck will make his own scrape right on top of one made by a lesser buck.
I can tell ya.....ANY buck will make a scrape on top of another one by what I've seen. I've witnessed multiple bucks on scrapes 3 or 4 times. Never in the presence of the dominant buck......but I've also never seen him work one. I watched him thrash the ever living hell out of a licking branch, once....but never seen HIS scrape.