Post by redmist on Oct 24, 2007 19:59:03 GMT -6
Does anyone believe this? It was published in a prominant hunting magazine in November of 2006. Ive always been taught not to let any kind of human scent near a scrape at all. Tell me what you think.
Whiz in a Scrape?
This is no joke.
Missouri biologist Dr. Grant Woods and his associates have taken tens of thousands of trail-camera photographs over the years, with many of their best shots coming at scrapes in the rut.
So what’s the best stuff to lure deer to those scrapes? Hot doe? Buck tarsal?
Nah, your pee!
The researchers have found that scrapes created or doctored with human urine produce the most buck sightings and, get this, the most mature buck sightings. Woods notes that it happens more often than random chance can account for.
So forget your pee bottle (whiz right off your stand, I do).
And try this before the rut is done: Paw a 5-foot circle deep into the dirt 20 yards or so upwind of your stand (farther if you’re gun hunting, but still in sight). Build your faux scrape beneath an overhanging limb and snap the tip of the stick 3 to 4 feet off the ground like deer do.
Then, well, you know what to do next. When you’re done whizzing, zip up, climb up and watch for a big boy to come check you out.
Each day you come back to hunt that stand, doctor your scent-post again till it really reeks.
Posted on November 17, 2006 in Deer/Outdoor Oddities
Whiz in a Scrape?
This is no joke.
Missouri biologist Dr. Grant Woods and his associates have taken tens of thousands of trail-camera photographs over the years, with many of their best shots coming at scrapes in the rut.
So what’s the best stuff to lure deer to those scrapes? Hot doe? Buck tarsal?
Nah, your pee!
The researchers have found that scrapes created or doctored with human urine produce the most buck sightings and, get this, the most mature buck sightings. Woods notes that it happens more often than random chance can account for.
So forget your pee bottle (whiz right off your stand, I do).
And try this before the rut is done: Paw a 5-foot circle deep into the dirt 20 yards or so upwind of your stand (farther if you’re gun hunting, but still in sight). Build your faux scrape beneath an overhanging limb and snap the tip of the stick 3 to 4 feet off the ground like deer do.
Then, well, you know what to do next. When you’re done whizzing, zip up, climb up and watch for a big boy to come check you out.
Each day you come back to hunt that stand, doctor your scent-post again till it really reeks.
Posted on November 17, 2006 in Deer/Outdoor Oddities
