How many of you make mock scrapes and when do you start making them? Any special scents that you use?

I like Doc's Dominant buck and I would drop them sometime around the second week of October.

I am experimenting this year. I made one last week and used a dripper with black widow dominant buck and regular doe pee. I have a cam on it and will probably leave for a few weeks.

Anytime now- use a rake, scent protection- rubber boots. I rough up the ground under a pencil thick licking branch and pour a gallon of water in the scrape- I don't even mess with scents- I got my two biggest deer on camera this way last year.... I use wire to bend trees over in the spring bordering my food plots. Last year I started in Aug.

Interesting, tell us more.

im glad you made this thread i had the same question

Absolutely mock scrapes do work. You are basically causing a buck to get suspicious of teh new boy that is competing for 'his' does. I placed one within sight of a very well defined trail,which usually means a lot of does, and scratched it out with a stick, put in some buck(from a buck bladder I got at a deer cooler by permission)and estrous doe urine, and the deer began enlarging it within a few days.I did it first in the second week of October here.I took both Georgia bucks off of it--don't believe it when you hear that they only check scrapes at night--, and then put a trail camera on it, and got a 150" 10 on film 5 days after tagging out, which was also during daylight. I forgot to mention that it is important to have the overhanging branch, and to , with rubbergloves on, to bend and mimic some chewing on the tips of a few branches. I also will cut off some tarsal glands from a buck in the cooler to rub on the branches and on the ground. I used to hang them close by and leave them, but they go bad very quick, so that isn't a good idea. I hang them a few times after freezing them, but only a few times so that they don't turn on me., since it will be a deer that the bucks in the area are not familiar with, which creates more of a sense of territory infringement.

Mock scrapes certainly do work. My one hunting buddy and i have had alot of luck with making a mock scrape in close proximity to other naturally made scrapes. The thinking is the bucks checking those scrapes will see a "new" buck in the area with new scent in the area and get him to start checking it out. We have also had alot of luck using drippers to keep these scrapes fresh. I havent started using them this early in the season, but come the end of september first week of october, ill be hunting over a few for sure.

I started a mock scrapeunder one of my stands 6 years ago. To this day it gets hammered every year. Keeping your human odor out of it and location are everything. If you find the right spot you'll never have to work them again much if the deer take it over...some will go dry too..for various reasons. I still have my treelounge permanently set up over that one particular scrape. There are tracks in it year around and the licking branches.... (3) of them above it are trashed.. My brother had a buck walk out on it this past weekend.

I used Buckfeversyntheticsto start it years ago, today , I need not apply anything, the deer take care of it for me.

I wont hunt a mock scrape when I can hunt a real one!
I only use them in spots when I cant place a stand over a real one for one reason or another, Small trees, no cover, bad wind, ect.. ect..
I use real Deer Saliva, Urine, and the Wax taken from the innerdigital gland (Toe Jam hole in between the hoofs, a flat toothpick works well for this).
All this stuf is kept in glass jars so it doesn't collect foreign orders, and in the crisper of the fridge, so it wont break down as fast.

I beat the crap out of the overhanging branch with a rake and put the saliva on it.
Rake out a 3x4' spot under the overhanging branch facing the direction the deer are coming from and place a couple oz of urine in it, and place the toothpick with the wax on it in thefront side of the scrape.
The wax from the Toe Jam hole is just adding another signiture to the scrape, its how they are able to follow another deer after long periods of time.
All this is done as scent free as possible of course.

Now, I have had deer take over a mock scrape that I used no scent on at all. I also killed abook size Buck off of a scrape I had peed in myself trying to shut it down, only to find when I returned, it was twice the size it was befor I peed in it!
So why do I go throughall the trouble I do to make a mock scrape?
I just dont want to take any chances on a Big Buck!