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Old 10-25-2013, 07:23 PM
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TSR6
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There is a scrape that had been used by my tree stand for years - underneith an overhanging branch onto the trail. The tree grew up, the deer broke off the overhanging branch, and the deer stopped using that tree.

I ended up zip-tie'ing another branch from that tree back onto that tree the last couple of years to keep a low hanging branch, and created scrapes under the tree - and the bucks started coming back!

Best thing I can suggest - toss some piss into the scrape to entice them to visit during other hours and/or even toss some branches/leaves into it to make him re-open it.

Here's a couple videos over top the scrape I'm talking about:

Video 1, The big buck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmBrJuz02Pw

Video 2, The little guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYFDffvfuvo

Video 3, the Medium guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL7q-Yt6Xs8

If you look closely, you can see where I attached the branch.... all those videos are from last year when I "reactivated" the spot.
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