It' s a funny thing - I' ve never had much luck hunting scrapes. From what my camtrackers tell me, most of their activity is at night. I think I' ve seen 2 or 3 deer work a scrape during the daylight in 10 years of bowhunting now.

BUT - I shot my biggest buck to date as he was approaching a scrape just after it got light one morning. I didn' t know the scrape was there at the time until I got over to where I shot him and noticed it not 3 feet away from where he' d been standing.

From everything I' ve read, it seems like people have the most luck when hunting downwind of a scrape line. Say 80-100 yards. Most mature bucks won' t check and freshen a scrape during the daytime unless it' s been touched by a doe. The way they check is by walking downwind of the scrapes in order to keep a little bit more secluded and cover ground efficiently. So in theory you find a good spot to set up 80-100 yards downwind and you just might be a crack at the resident big boy in the area. You just never know.