I didn't mean to come across as a know it all. It just seemed that his statements were absolutes, when as we all know there are few absolutes when it comes to deer & hunting. I watch both young and old bucks go along field edges at night and make scrapes. Some of them turn out to be big scrapes. I think that could just be from being hit by multiple bucks. I've never found early scrapes anywhere other than field edges. Not saying they don't exist, I just haven't found any yet.