I am reading a book by DR. Ken Nordberg.
This guy claims that scrapes have absolutly nothing to do with does,but serve only as a warning sign to other bucks.
(I think he is a nut)
I aint goin' to the world,but I did run up to the oaks last Thursday.I have a Nite CH. female out of Gr.Nt.Ch Flowers' Wildfire(highest reproducing english)that I bred to Gr.Nt.Ch. Hardtime Moses.Moses is out of Gr.Nt.Ch.Smiths Hardtime Rocky(second highest reproducing english)I met Jim...
You know,its funny you mentioned the thing about the second rut.The second rut here falls during our muzzle loader season.
I am usually tagged out by then.
I have been thinking about skipping shotgun season here and just waiting for muzzle loader season.
My reasoning for wanting to do this is(as...
You made the comment that you had killed over 250 deer.How many of them were big bucks killed over scrapes?
I have always hunted scrapes,I have just never had it produce.It sounds like the areas I am hunting are ideal.I just need to look for fresher scrapes.
I get the part about hunting an active scrape,but how do you determine which ones are active.Do you go in there and check them every day to see if the scrapes have been visited?If so then how do you keep from scaring off the buck with that much activity?
Do you use scrape drippers?
Are you going...
O.K.,I am tired of debating the natural selection thing,but I do want to pursue the scrape hunting thing farther.
Deerslayer,I told what my ideal set up was and how I went about doing it.
What is yours?How do you determine which scrapes to hunt?Come on man,give us allthe juicy details!!!!!!!!
You really had me wondering deerslayer.I thought 250 deer,that sounds like a southern thing.
Whitetail hunter,I know where rockports at.Your downstream from me.How far are you from Tell City?
I beg to differ,1-pointer.I think going nocturnal is an instinct,and instincts can be passed on geneticly.
A hound will instinctivly run game by scent,it dont learn to do it from its mother.The instinct to run game has been enhanced through breeding.
Duh! Now I see where it says IN at the bottom of your post.
So you are from Indy?
I didn't mean to imply that thats the way it was in the whole state,just in my particular area.I live in the middle of the hoosier national forest.Its all hills and hollers with few crops where I am at,with heavy...
I have a theory.I thought I would toss this up for debate while we were on the topic of scrapes and rubs.Everyone thinks that bucks run scrapes at night because of hunting pressure.I agree that this plays a part to a certain extent,but could it be possible that the process of natural selection...