Do mock scrapes still work after the rut?
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I agree with all the above. Here in KS after the main rut we hunt food sources especially winter wheat. It's the only green food that late in the season and a real deer magnet. Bucks will bed in any cedar thicket that is within walking distance too. Find a remote wheat field with good cover nearby and you will find deer everytime.
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I had a lot of success in creating mock scrapes and by that i mean deer use them when i make them. I have not shot a deer over a mock scrape per say but i do feel they can be used to persaude travel routes and when making a scrape i begin by using a stick ( rubber gloves and rubber boots) too clear a patch of earth and beat up a lickin branch. Sometimes I substitute a lickin branch from another property and then i pee in it ( yea i know cardinal sin but it works) add a little bit of "realdeer" a sometimes one drop of dose. 7 out of ten get re-worked by deer at least once. I also pee in every real scrape i find and put a drop or two of real deer on the lickin branch and by my experience it seems to work.
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