Your Best Success with Man Made Scrapes in Plots

[DMarley83]

I'm looking for different opinions on what actually works the best as far as a man made scrape tree on plots or near stands.. in real life experience.

I have seen so many different set ups and wonder where the sweet spot is. (Best Bang for the Buck)

Personally I like real trees each year with wild grape vines.

I know some use a rope I have not personally but would be easier as you could leave it year after year....

Post up what works best for you if you would. A Pic would be awsome if you had it!

 

[Bucksnbears]

My best set up is with an oak branch cut while the leaves are still green.
When they dry out, they stay attached for a long time.
Once bucks start ramping up, they seem to enjoy the noise those dried up leaves produce . Seems to get them " fevered up".
Also, slightly damp soil Trump's dry soil in my opinion.

Rope n vines scrapes are a bit misleading. Tried them many times and seldom do bucks actually make a scrape under them. They serve more of just a (licking) branch.
Natural oak branch for me.

Also, a scrape branch connected to a rub tree is not ideal.
Here is a rub tree I put up last Sept. Guessing roughly 40 bucks rubbed it.
Also had a bracket with a branch attached.
Only a few bucks activity worked the branch.

 

[IowaBowHunter1983]

White pine and oak branches, grape vines have worked best for me. I have tried willow and cedar and white pine seems to be way more attractive. Sometimes hard to find.

 

[DMarley83]

Do you still use a piece of pvc in the ground as a sleeve?

 

[Snail3496]

White pine licking branch beats an oak branch every time in my experience. It doesn't matter if you don't have picky deer, but in some areas they absolutely are picky and white pine gets them to go when others don't.

 

[IowaBowHunter1983]

Do you still use a piece of pvc in the ground as a sleeve?

Still got em! New ones I haven't been putting in cuz im running auger anyway for "custom" pine post work. Yes that's a thing. Lol

 

[Bucksnbears]

For what it's worth, a scrape and a rub post are 2 different things.

A scrape is an overhanging limb with the ground disturbed beneath it.

A rub is a tree/ branch that is hit with the antlers.
(I know) most know this but seems like nowdays, way to many combine the 2
they are NOT the same.

Can't say I've ever seen the 2 in the same spot in the wild?
I have one Hawthorne tree on the edge of a small secluded clover plot.
There has been a major scrape under the overhanging limb for 20+ years.
Some years it's insane size, (has multiple) limbs coming off it overhanging the clover field. That scrape is often over 15' long and I've watched hundreds of bucks working it.
The tree itself, although it a perfect " rub tree" never gets rubbed but most of the other Hawthorne trees within 20 yards get rubbed evey year.

Scrape/ rub tree ain't the same!

You want a rub post, stick a desired tree in a visible spot.

Want a scrape, find a natural stout branch or attach one .

 

[IowaBowHunter1983]

For what it's worth, a scrape and a rub post are 2 different things.

A scrape is an overhanging limb with the ground disturbed beneath it.

A rub is a tree/ branch that is hit with the antlers.
(I know) most know this but seems like nowdays, way to many combine the 2
they are NOT the same.

Can't say I've ever seen the 2 in the same spot in the wild?
I have one Hawthorne tree on the edge of a small secluded clover plot.
There has been a major scrape under the overhanging limb for 20+ years.
Some years it's insane size, (has multiple) limbs coming off it overhanging the clover field. That scrape is often over 15' long and I've watched hundreds of bucks working it.
The tree itself, although it a perfect " rub tree" never gets rubbed but most of the other Hawthorne trees within 20 yards get rubbed evey year.

Scrape/ rub tree ain't the same!

You want a rub post, stick a desired tree in a visible spot.

Want a scrape, find a natural stout branch or attach one .

100% combine the two with EXTREME success.... oh and right at 20 yards.

 

[203ntyp]

White pine branches and a rubbing post by a field edge works for me. I drilled a hole at an angle 5/8" on the cedar rubbing post. I replace them when they start to dry out.