Few things in nature can pump a hunter’s blood pressure like a freshly dug scrape.
Your mind runs wild, with those big hooves digging up the leaves as the buck nuzzles a licking branch, broken and hanging like a slender arrow pointing to the opening in the forest floor.
Hunting this distinctive sign is exciting but difficult. Some scrapes are never visited again, while other are a magnet for multiple bucks.
What makes deer scrape? What hunting strategies are best? Grant takes the mystery out of hunting scrapes in this video from HuntingDeer.TV.
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