Old Buck
Life Member
I frequently make artificial scrapes and licking branches in areas where I can monitor them from my tree stands. One of the scrapes I made last fall also happens to be about 20 yards from one of my spring, turkey, ground blinds. Yesterday, as I was turkey hunting from that blind three deer came by. All three were bucks. They had from one to two inches of antler developement and appeared to be a mixed bachelor group varying from 1-3+ years old. All three, in turn, stood in the scrape and worked the licking branch. None pawed the scrape. For a number of years I've noticed foot prints year round in some scrapes. This is the first time I've seen bucks working the licking branch this time of the year.