Hunting a Mule deer scrape? - 03/26/12
Maybe some of you whitetail hunters can help me.... I've been hunting the same high elevation wilderness area for quite a few years. For the last few years we would get a light snow or rain in october that would make tracking easy, each year I have cut a fresh (hours old) monster track and followed it. Same exact trail, leads down a big finger ridge through a couple of saddles. Anyways this buck has a scrape in a patch of timber on top of the ridge that he freshens up and then moves down the canyon into some heavy bedding cover.... I've always lost the track or deemed it pointless beyond this point. I have some nice trailcam pics of a huge buck and I'm sure its him but have no idea how to get on him. I think he moves late at night.... hopefully early in the morning. Best I can think is to put a tree stand on the scrape and hope he comes by during shooting light?