Wild Guide Magazine Fall 2017 | Page 33

wild guide: plan for success where the majority of does are living, find the highest concentration of scrape activity and set up to hunt. It’s really that simple. By employing several proactive strategies, you can often bring those deer in on a string. This is when interpreting scrape and rub activity becomes especially important. When bucks learn that does are focusing on a localized area, they begin to communicate with each other more frequently using very specific scrapes. These are defined as primary scrapes. Both bucks and does urinate in these seasonal signposts and bucks will deposi