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 ...

Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

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 whom ...