When do bucks start scrapes?

[cohntr6]

Repost: Maybe the bowhunters can comment!

 

I finally got a camera on a scrape line in early January this year and of course it was being used heavily by several bucks.

I was wondering when you all started seeing fresh scrapes show up in the pre-rut.

Should be soon either way, right?

 

THANKS!

Jeff

[abovethecoues]

cohtr6

 

I saw a scrapes the first week of December. Scrapes meaning scratching up the ground below a low tree branch.

 

I thing they have been rubbing their antlers a little longer though.

[CouesWhitetail]

saw some fresh scrapes a few days ago.

[cohntr6]

Thanks for the replies.

I put a camera up last week on a scrape from last year.

Yes, I don mean scrape as a place where a deer paws at the

ground, urinates in it, bends a branch and rubs his pre-orbital gland, etc.

 

 

Here is thew same scrape with different bucks using it. The forkhorn was

a predictable visitor for a while.

Both bucks are standing in the scrape, it is kind of hard to see and the pictures

are from last season (the time stamp is correct).

 

Jeff