RE: mock scrape success?
Actually the main reason I picked that area was the previous year there were a lot of scrapes and big rubs. It looked like an area that a dominant buck was visiting.
My goal was to get the activity moving earlier than the rut.
At the time we hunted it - there was only one other active scrape in the area besides mine. One of my 4 scrapes never got visited but the others all had activity.