It sounds like you have a winner there. I think the key to scrape hunting is finding the right scrapes to hunt. I usually don't pay that much attention to scrapes along field edges although I have seen bucks work them earlier in the season when they haven't been pressured yet. Like I said, I've heard about primary scrape areas and the gold mine that they are, but I've never found one myself due to there rarity. I'm always on the lookout for just the situation that you described.

Would ya'll use any scents when hunting these lines?

I found a rub/scrape line this past off season and plan on going back this week to see if its opened up again.

I'm thinking of setting a stand in the area but was wondering if you use scent and if so which ones? Would you use estrous or buck urine?

This happened to me Sunday morning.

I'd found a nice line of scrapes and followed the rub lines in between them until I found a fresh scrape, larger than the rest about 20 yards from the edge of a thicket on the downwind side. I trimmed my way about 20 yards further in figuring the buck would scent check his scrape from inside the cover in the daylight. Went and pulled a ladderstand and put it up in a red oak there. Sunday morning I went it to kill him and found that I was right, he did check it in the daylight on the downwind side but he checked it from 80 yards downwind!

He smelled me, tucked his tail and sneaked out of there back into the pines. If I hadn't seen him, I would have never known he was there.

if you wait a couple of weeks, you'll be too late.....

Don't forget your deer calls. Although a buck decoy could be a good possiblity as well. Good Luck

Good luck!

Hey guys,
I put a a cuddyback and found this guy working the scrape.What do you think?

Marc

I think there is... no pic Autumn?

I'm not seeing it either, unless it's the pic on page 1.

1st post was edited on the 31st so that must be the pick he is talking about.