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Everyone knows how well mock scrapes can work from mid october thru the 1st week of november, but here is something I have been doing the last few years. Around the first of september after bucks strip the velvet I cut willow trees, 4-9 inches in diameter and about 9 foot long with at least one long licking branch. Take a post hole digger and sink it 3 feet in the ground, in your food plot or feeding field, where you want your shot to be. I also put a second tree in about 10 feet away for a camera. Scratch up the bark a little and make a mock scrape under the licking branch and your set. The bucks go to the tree right away in september and scent check/thrash it first thing when they come to the field, all the way thru january.Even if they are not coming to feed, they want to know who has been there. Other trees will probably work, but the willows are a soft wood with a strong smell when the bark is rubbed.No matter how solid you put it in, they will have it loose in the ground in no time and spin the tree in circles making a scrape all the way around the tree. It seems the looser the tree gets in the ground the more they like it. I like a forked tree but it has to be sunk deep or they will pull it out of the ground the first night.I learned the hard way last year to mount the camera 6 ft up. Right after the close up picture, the big buck destroyed my new reconyx, breaking all the glass, somehow opened the door, dumped all 12 batteries and even sprung the card. A little clear packing tape over the broken glass and the camera is still working fine. Reconyx cameras rock. Thats never happened with my flash cameras.Its a great way to get pictures all season and position them for a shot in a big feeding area.Sorry so long winded, but its never too early to start thinking about next season.
 
That's just crazy. They tore the crap out of that thing. I'm definitely gonna be trying this. Thanks for posting.
 
I have a 4x4 post I use to hang a camera on in my food plot, I got the post from work as it was part of a skid used for steel and was full of nails etc from the factory life. Long story short after one fall the post is now shaped like an hour glass it was rubbed so much. I had to move my camera but left the post there and it was literally all torn up around the post. I am going to put another one up this year to mount my camera on to take pics of whats hitting it. I have no Idea because they would always come behind the camera and send that baby into orbit. The pics that you have are nothing short of awesome that is for sure.
 
One of the best new ideas I have seen in a long time. Thanks for the input. You should have got a patten on that one because it will be every where this fall.
 
Awesom idea...Thanks for sharing. As far as whether its effective, the proofs in the pudding with those pics....
 
Good idea for sure. Lakosky's talked about doing this with fence post poles in food plots at their seminar at the IDC. Wish I had a big enough open area to make something like that stand out enough.
 
I have alot of cedars, and I take the lower branches off some every spring and the bucks like those ready made, fragrent rub posts too. I never tried digging a tree into a stategic spot though. I wonder how wary a large buck would be with a strange tree suddenly appearing.? As I have testified before, in areas where deer are on large acreages, and seldom bothered, alot of disturbance can be gotten away with. Where deer are wary, you better change things weeks or months in advance. This is worth a try though. I know they love willow.
 
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