| Setting Up The
Zone Scrape - What he did and what hapened
Dennis
made 2 scrapes at the Zone in early October. One behind the stand 50 yards
on top of a ridge. The 2nd in front of the stand 50 yards.
He
wore rubber gloves and boots and went in clean. He raked out the leaves
with a dead stick, making a triangular shape 3 foot long by 2 feet wide.
The
scrape on the ridge needed an overhanging limb so Dennis found a long and
leafy beech limb, cut it off the tree, and attached it to a dead limb on
the tree -- 5 foot off the ground.
 
(L) Close up of the limb
fastened to a dead limb with ties. (R) The scrape on November 11.
Actually two beach limbs
are attached to the scrape tree.
Dennis
put Excite whitetail
doe urine with Estrus Scent from Wildlife
Research Center on several tips on the limb that did not have leaves
on them. He held the bottle with rubber gloves and inserted each limb tip
in the bottle, one at a time. Dennis added, "The thick texture of Excite
makes it stay on the limbs long enough to find out if the deer are going
to work the limb and use the scrape."
The
second scrape already had an overhanging branch and Dennis put the Excite
on two branches and made the scrape underneath it.
Three
days later he checked them and there were deer tracks in both scrapes.
Dennis re-doctored the scrape with Excite.
The
front scrape stopped being active. The ridge scrape had all the deer tracks
in the scrape (this one had the tied on limbs). Two weeks from first making
the scrape Dennis hung a dripper at the active scrape. He used the Power-Wick
dripper with Active Scrape
deer lure, both from Wildliife Research
Center.
 
(L) Zone Scrape, note
the Power-Wick hanging on the limb above the scrape. (R) Cloesup of Power-Wick
The
scrape continues to be active. Dennis has seen several bucks working the
ridge scrape.
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