There was mention some time ago. about using a rope set , hanging over a deer scrape. I know a buck likes to play with an overhanging limb. , at a scrape. Would this be a short piece of rope with some buck scent on it. I use a dripper, made from a 2x2 about 6 inches long , A 1/2 inch hole bored in it, put a wick in hole and soak it with doe scent , hung over a scrape. Works quite well. . Any thoughts. I go for cateract surgery on open day of deer season , poor timing but have been waiting about a year. , can't see to shoot anyway. Will be glad to get fixed up, hope to be dead eye Dick by next year. old243

Never tried it bit I've heard hemp re is recommended?

No need for scents. The deer with leave their scent. All deer will use it, not just bucks.

Maybe that stuff works up north but I haven't had much luck with a rope or grape vines.

If you have a natural deer scrape, I wouldn't touch it and I'd hunt it, if you can find a scape line even better. I use 1" diameter hemp ropes for making mock scape lines, these are all positioned within bow shot range, I let the rope sit out about a year and they get placed in December after gun season. In mid-summer I spray round-up in about a 4' oval shape under them, early September I rake dead grass and put Smokey's Wicked Wick scent on them, the rope bottom is frayed and hangs about 2' off the ground. This is for new rope scrapes, once established they never get touched again. Fawns does and bucks consistently use them. If you look closely at a fresh hot scrape a lot of times the horizontal licking branch and orbital rubbing spot gets broken off and ultimately the scape is abandoned, the rope or grape vine being vertical, eliminates that. We have a small patch of sumac that gets rubbed to the ground with scrapes consistently found on a field edge- same principle for communal rubs.

I use vines that I cut and tie up in the tree and make a mock scrape, here is one I put up on public land. The doe are starting to use it some.

cool never heard of this

Old243, best of luck with your eye surgery. If it goes well you should be in shooting shape in about a week. If you are shooting using a scope you will need to readjust the reticle focus.

M experience is that making mock scrapes works Maybe not all the time but one more thing to try especially if it seems like not miuh in happening

Very interesting I'll that next season. Thx.

Is this it Eagleye?

Thanks for the reply;s. I will set a couple up. I have created mock scrapes , using a dripper. Something new to play with. Have had good luck with a drag rag, to bring a buck in, Cut across a couple of deer trails , then hang your drag rag where you want them to come to. Usually come with their nose to the ground , like a hound, Not paying attention.

Looking forward to my cateract surgury, I miss being able to see well enough, to shoot and carry a rifle.

If you're putting a stand over it, factor the wind and the "j" hook the deer will use before he comes in.

Thats it! I have never found an orbital gland scent- everything is synthetic, the guy who makes this might be on here- his name is Smokey McNicholas a trapper from West Virginia.

YouTube mock scrapes Jeff Sturgis.

On one of Jeff Strugis videos- he talks about when you have mock scrapes and deer make natural scrapes nearby (and they will) to cut the licking branch off with a pruning shears to redirect them to your scrapes- I thought this was a great idea to force abandonment.

Great thread

Thats it Smokeys is great stuff!

Bought 5' of hemp rope today and hung it from a branch where lots of deer travel.
A cam is guarding it.

Be prepared for coons jumping up and swinging. I put up 4 early summer to get the smell off of them. Used Smokey but they just smell it. Didn't start using the scrape till I put red oak branches and put Smokey preorbital on the branch. The rope they stretch way out and just smell. I should say 2 are on posts and 2 are in trees. One in a tree that was a scrap last year they totally abandoned.

Last season was the first time my buddy and myself started hanging vines we simply cut from the woods and hung from trees on deer trails, the results were crazy. The vines were placed earlier in the summer and no scent was used whatsoever, the deer did it all, does and bucks. Every place there was a vine hung, a scrape followed. The vines were placed in three different geographical locations, one at my place, one at his which is a hour from my house. And he even placed some where he hunts in South Dakota on artificial trees he constructed from telephone poles. Check out the videos below, there are only a sample of the countless vids from last year. If you want to see more videos like this on my YouTube channel, just click on the author (me), from that page, then click on videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDfg_K8PLyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIjMe2lUVpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDFF6mu6cc

Cool video's

LOL!!! That’s hilarious!

We use the vines here and they work great.

Thanks for the videos

Yes, I'd like to see that.

They are simple magic. I put them out last year in front of all my stands. They look silly. I just hung 1 inch x 2 foot grape vines about chest high in an opening in the deer trail. No lure at all. Most deer, does and bucks, check that vine out when they walk through. Tonight I sat in a stand overlooking one of those vines from last year, A doe ran by followed by 3 yearling bucks. All 3 bucks played with that vine, You learn a lot about scrapes. It's more the licking branch then the scraped ground underneath. Most deer just come up and sniff it without doing anything to the ground below,

I tried one this year for the first time ever. This has been my experience too, so far. I call them licking sticks instead of mock scrapes. I don't put very many out though because I want to be able to really lure in the deer to a couple key locations. I found the vine and then used Jeff Sturgis's online advice. I put one five yards from my new h20 hole. I'm still trying to figure out what the biggest attraction is but I had an eight-pointer show up on camera 5 days in a row.

They are easy & inexpensive