big ten

ive been reading this book real world whitetail behavior. and one of the chapters is scrape hunting, in the chapter they say that most bucks travel with the wind to their backs or quartering across there backs.they use their eyes and hearing for the front side. what i find interesting though is when a buck opens its scrapes, they will not check it again until that wind is in the same direction that it was in when they first opened it. which if your hunting in mountains could be a little tricky, you could have a north wind but in the area the scrape was it could have been a south wind with the funnels and ridges playing the game. my question is did anybody know all this? or had different experiences? ill admit, i didn't know all this i knew about the bucks traveling with the wind to there backs. but not the scrapes i figured they just checked them randomly at night.

dukemichaels

I read and own that book. Many years ago when I first read it I thought that their point of hunting scrapes when the wind was at a buck's back was interesting. I even duped myself into hunting such a routine. Man.. what an idiot I once was in the deer woods!

While I'am sure that A (very few, and usually young deer) whitetail buck has done this before, that's just not the way a mature buck moves. Mature bucks move with the wind in their nose.. either directly, a cross wind into, or downwind of. Big bucks usually move downwind of heavy cover. Big bucks, when entering a scrape area, have that wind in their face. Before entering a field to feed, that wind is usually as downwind as the buck can get. Otherwise he'll just wait til after dark to move.

Mature bucks, or any deer, use their number 1 friend.. their own nose as often as they can.

AR Bowhunter

I very seldom hunt scrapes, I will hunt the nearest feeding areas close to the scrapes.I have seen deer scraping during the daytime, but I think the majority of scrapes are done during the night time.