I don't generally hut scrapes by themselves, since most of them are serviced at night. Generally the scrapes are on trails that lead to food/water/bedding areas. I try to find the areas they lead to and find some other sign as well ie... food, water, thick cover.. find those areas and you will be in the right area. Just my 2 cents, I am sure others have other methods that work for them as well.
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Me too and I've only killed 1 buck actually checking a scrape in daylight. Even killed 1buck who I know made the scrape and thehe came in to feed and didn't check it. I like the food sources preferrably.
Well I don't know what happened on opening weekend but I do know that nothing is working the scrapes now and with no oaks in the area I think it is time to move.
Sometimes when your the most frustrated about things God sends an angel. When I had just about given up on catching Bass here because what had worked so well for my back in Pa was not working at all here, I had someone offer me a chance to go with them and they taught me how to catch them "FL Style". Now I catch bass all the time.
I was starting to get frustrated with hunting here too. Trying what I knew was not working and I wasn't sure what else to try. Yesterday I was talking with a friend about where I had set up they way the scrapes were and what was not happening. We were discussing what might be going on when another man, who had been standing there just listening I guess, asked me where I was hunting. I told him what WMA and he said that was where he was hunting too. He asked if I minded saying where I was seeing scrapes as he had not seen any rubs or scrapes yet. I told him no it didn't matter since I hadn't seen any deer there anyway. Then I asked him how he was doing. He told me he had shot 2 bucks, 1 doe, and 1 hog so far. I told him "wow your doing well" and he told me that "I can tell ya where to go if you want to shoot a deer" and proceeded to give me directions to the area of oak hummock where he was hunting. He told me that he was off work and can hunt anytime he wants to and has not seen anyone else there yet. I asked him if the spot he told me was where he was at and he told me "no I'm just a little further down the trail, but there are lots of deer in there and you won't bother me".
What a nice guy! He told us that he was seeing deer everyday and had saw several bucks that he couldn't get a shot at. Like I said, sometimes an angel just comes along when you need one.
Ok, I am going to play devils advocate here and tell you my first reaction reading this.
(not saying this is the case, just an observation)
~You slip up and tell a guy you don't know, who is not working where a bunch of fresh buck sign is.
~He tells you of a spot off the top of his head to get you out of the spot you have been hunting.
~He makes a bee line to the spot you told him about and hunts it
Once again, I may be out of line. But that was my first reaction reading your post
Could be. But the sign is not fresh and hasn't been for two weeks. And I actually never told him where it was at. My friend knows where of he spoke and confirmed that it should be a good spot.
