Placing deer scent directly onto the
scrape will attract deer.
The down side is that when you place the scent on the ground
that the buck might walk over and past the scrape.
This could limit the number of bucks visiting the deer
scrape.
I hang a scent wick, saturated with deer scent, above the
scrape.
Wind currents can carry deer scent through your deer hunting
area and could attract more deer to that scrape. A saturated
deer scent wick in the air could last longer than a few
drops of deer scent on the ground.
Another plus to using a scent wick is you will not have keep
reapplying deer scent to the deer scrape every day. Not
having to apply scent everyday keeps human odors from
contaminating the deer scrape you are hunting over.
Don’t be discouraged if the deer scrape is not reopened the
day after you apply deer scent. A rutting buck may be
working a very large area that is filled with scrapes.
The buck may take a couple days to come back to the deer
scrape you doctored up.
If after two days, the deer scrape has not been re-opened by
a buck, chances are the deer scrape is not active any
longer. You may want to move your deer hunting tree stand
location.
