As crazy as it may sound, midsummer is the perfect time to set a trap for a fall big-buck encounter by making mock scrapes. Most deer hunters associated scrapes with pre-rut hunting, but in my ...

Imagine you’ve got two deer properties. Each has a mock scrape on it, which looks like most scrapes — except for one small difference. Instead of carefully breaking branches to create a licking branch ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on who ...