Why You Should Start Mock Scrapes Now, Tips And Tactics | Midwest Whitetail 

Another option to try in the scent department, i throw cotton swabs and a flip top plastic container in my hunting pack and when I harvest a doe or a buck I will rub the swabs are over the pre orbital and orbital glands, the tarsals, and even their bodies, throw them in the freezer and use the following year, pretty cheap and works great!

Iove the vine scrapes. We dont ever use scent though. Just hang and let the deer put there own scent on it.

I the love the beginning sound

Lots of good info. Thanks fellas

Tip for you I use, bring a portable drill innthe woods, drill holl through one end, feed rope through, attach with a nylon rope and tie it off a sturdy overhang branch , also, they work fantastic on field edges, rake underneath, take a pee in it, works awesome.

Smokey's Deer Lures is amazing stuff. Great video

Good video. Putting up a few this weekend

Wish I could add pics to comments. Got some pretty sweet pics does fawns and bucks with mock scrapes and a vine. No added scents ever

“You really hit the hammer on the nail” You mean hit the nail on head? Haha

May add a few mock scrapes when I check my cameras in a few weeks after watching this!

Jeff Sturgis

I have used the grape vines now for a few years and I would clear out the dirt below it and just pee in it. The deer will then take it over and put their own scent on it. I have never had any luck with scents.

The tail end of that video was that rope? If so was it cotton rope or nylon? Great video! Going to head out this weekend to put some out!

Great vid! Do u guys have any promos goin for novix I was looking to get climbing sticks and wanted to get them just checking to see if they had anything goin on??

With putting cameras and the vine out early have you had negative effects? Like having mature deer come in that early and never come in front of that camera again?

Agree with ~1" diameter, fairly straight, hung vertical with the bottom being around waist high. Disagree that it needs to be a vine (have proof that branches work), doesn't need to be relatively rigid (hang all mine from a rope) and no scents are needed. Got thousands of pics of all caliber of deer (and bear) visiting the site. Note too that the scrape site needs to be fairly level with space to move around or they may shy away.

My advice, keep mock scrapes simple. I wouldn’t use ANY attractant or deer urine the first time. Set up a vine and give it a couple weeks. If you don’t see any action or interest, then add an attractant and urine!

Do you guys ever try these with 1” ropes instead of vines? Looking to try the rope this summer

Check out black widow deer lures.

How far do you put your cameras to the mock scrape?

I'm going to try putting out some this and next month with rope.

What scent exactly do you put on the ground ? Or the tip of the vine?

What kinda of camera and lens did y'all film the buck at 8:13 with?

I pulled hundreds of feet of woodvine out of a dead oak on my property @ 🏡. 3 huge oak branches that separated from the trunk were actually held up by woodvine. I used arborist equipment to lower these branches & others down down to remove everything but the spar of the dead oak. In March & April I put out a dozen grape/wood vine in 2 different areas. Only hang in thick areas that r traveled well by deer closer to bedding areas heading to stands of oaks where the cover isn't so thick. Gives u a spot where u can have a 🦌 focus on something else & not u. I do this in public areas off the beaten trail which is harder to get to than most. When the timing is right I know b4 ( I get to my 🌳 that I pull myself up into with a climbing rope) where my camera is going to be pointing @. I put my camera out in mid-August up in the 🌳 I'm hunting out of angling down @ that licking spot. I got many short video mode captions last year & the woodvine is just something that I can hang with paracord tied tightly to a branch above that will entice deer but not people. If these were spots that people spent time going into I wouldn't be hanging a Browning camera just to get no video while risking the loss of a great hunting tool.

OK, so I been looking into setting up a vertical scrape this year. I dont have anything in the open to hang from. Typically Id sink a cedar post in the ground and then add an oak branch. I havent even done that yet on this property we just obtained last year. What would you do if you have nothing to hang from and wanted to get one out in the open? Im more likely to add the cedar post and horizontal oak branch until I get trees grown enough to do this. Before I watched this, I already wanted to stay away from my edges as those are going to be my stand locations and dont want deer coming to them anymore than necessary. In one area I am going to see if I can string a rope across a path and hang one that way but Im not sure I can get one across... This may be hard to visualize, but just assume there is NOTHING to hang from.

Mine r still up from last year

One week until opening bow

They just don’t hit em as well

Don't put scent on them at all! If it positioned correctly the deer will put thier scent on them.

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