Found one early last year, and went back to check it this year, and yep--it was already being visited.I went to anther area to pick out a couple of trees for me and my 15 year old son to hunt out of opening day, and there was another one. Don't listen to the nay sayers. Just becasue someone doesn't experience it does not take away the validity of what you know and have seen with your own eyes. BTW, th eone I saw last year I hunted close by and had a nice 9 that would come in when it was too dark to make a shot. He never came all th eway to teh scrape, but he was always from the same direction,
and he would scent check it from about 3-5 yards. He got poached the night before gun season opened and I found him that morning on my way out of the woods.And for those who are going to say, how do I know he was poached the night before--I go in and out at the same point, one way in and one way out. He wasn't there the night before,and he was there next morning. There were no gun shots that morning, and I was in my stand 45 minutes before daylight, and I found him with a .22 bullet wound, lying in the trail I had been hunting,about 150 yards from my stand.He wasn't there the night before, and I was before daylight. I later that day, began to see teh scope of the poaching problem( had to run off 2 that tried to come in that day)that I had, having the rest of the season ruined by mulitiple poachers in this area, and got 2 arrested,but too late.