KYDeerHunter03

I was out in the woods a couple days ago and I thought I seen a couple scrapes. They were about 2 x3 and there was 3 or 4 of them all in the same area and there was buck poop everywhere. I heard that the only bucks that make scrapes this early are the big boys. I dont know how true it is, but anything can happen.

Javabird17

Ol' man said if we post pics will you doubters truly believe ? or will you accuse theunknown of making it up ?

Javabird17

All the scrapes and rubs are at one end of our property.

Hotburn76

Thats calling it out right there! LOL!! There is a nice group of guys in here that you show them proof and then they will pull out the photoshop card and still call you a liar! Your old man is wise!

I have seen some rubs in the first part of September. The bucks will start to establish there territory as soon as the velvet sheds and falls off. When the velvet is on, the bucks will still be in there close bachelor groups. Then when the hormones kick in and the velvet dies and then falls off they will disband and start to make rubs. If you have a buck with hard horns, thenhe will be making rubs, not sure how much size has to do with this though, not doubting the ol'man. I have seen scrapes in mid September one year. We had that year what seemed to be a early rut, size could have something to do with this depending on age of dear and how soon the glands work, not sure. Post pics, I would like to see a scrap with green foliage in the background be called a liar by the photo police! LOL!!

shed33

Bucks are tearing up trees here.. no velvet left on any of the last half a dozen bucks I have seen since Sat..

As far as scrapes go...its early..but I've watched them hit licking branches and work them over in July...

stikbow26

Java, I just got home from Illinois yesterday and on sunday we were filming in a bean fieldand when we return on monday night there was 5 scrapes opened up and two of them were 10 feet from our pop up blind.. Walt

titleist_03

I was hanging stands in Hancock county this past weekend and saw a 1 in. tree broke off at chin level and shredded. It had velvet all over underneath it. 25 yards away on the edge of a bean field there were 3 2x2 scrapes that had been recently worked. You could see the cuts in the ground from the hooves. First time I've ever seen that type of sign this early, and the first I've ever seen a run with velvet underneath. I wish I would have had the camera.

Paddles

first week of september is when westart to see a lot of rubs and scrape. most of it i think is rubbing velvet and scrapes are more territorial then anything.we also see a lot of littlebuck making lots of little scrapesall the way down the tree line.

Javabird17

Thanks for all the stories guys. I wanted to go get some pics last night but we ended up working and cutting some shooting lanes at the other side of the property.

Just before dusk we headed to his fathers barn to check out the biggest colony of bats I have ever seen in person. Very cool[8D]


But, it's glad to see we are not the only ones experiencing it this early.. 2 more days to go.. Good lord it can't come fast enough.. I have been practicing so much my arm hurts.. Dead on at 30 yrds now.

manuman

Found one early last year, and went back to check it this year, and yep--it was already being visited.I went to anther area to pick out a couple of trees for me and my 15 year old son to hunt out of opening day, and there was another one. Don't listen to the nay sayers. Just becasue someone doesn't experience it does not take away the validity of what you know and have seen with your own eyes. BTW, th eone I saw last year I hunted close by and had a nice 9 that would come in when it was too dark to make a shot. He never came all th eway to teh scrape, but he was always from the same direction,
and he would scent check it from about 3-5 yards. He got poached the night before gun season opened and I found him that morning on my way out of the woods.And for those who are going to say, how do I know he was poached the night before--I go in and out at the same point, one way in and one way out. He wasn't there the night before,and he was there next morning. There were no gun shots that morning, and I was in my stand 45 minutes before daylight, and I found him with a .22 bullet wound, lying in the trail I had been hunting,about 150 yards from my stand.He wasn't there the night before, and I was before daylight. I later that day, began to see teh scope of the poaching problem( had to run off 2 that tried to come in that day)that I had, having the rest of the season ruined by mulitiple poachers in this area, and got 2 arrested,but too late.