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Old 06-18-2008 | 11:41 AM
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Also Jeff, most of the smell comes from the tarsal gland after the buck pisses on its hocks (washing the scent onto the scrape). This accumulates in a scrape after muliple uses - and if you have enough scrapes in a small area you can smell the whole area downwind! I whitnessed it for the first time last season - I could smell the top part of a long skinny draw easily 100 yards down wind. I sat there once with a camera (tagged out)and saw 3 mature bucks in onemoring.It was insane.
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