Best Licking Branch for Buck Scrapes
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2019
- You really don't have to reinvent the wheel when choosing the best licking branch for a buck scrape. A hanging vine can be an outstanding addition to your mock scrape setups and often, they are very easy to find. While a hanging oak branch or jack pine branch can work just as well for attracting a buck to scrape, vines are the most natural hanging licking branch in the whitetail woods. Vine licking branches can last for several years or more, and often attract the most perennial attention from mature bucks compared to any other licking branch. Try a vine licking branch on a mock buck scrape this season and I have experienced for many, many years that you will not be disappointed!
Made 2 mock scrapes for the first time ever this year. Decided to try a vine here in NY. The first I made a week and a half ago. Used a vine on side of an old food plot that still produces some clover between swamp and sugar bush. Nothing was touching it. Added a disposable scrape starter. Next day(yesterday) I had a button buck using it. My second I made yesterday by bending a sapling and wiring it to a bigger tree. This one is in a better location. I scratched up the dirt and peed on it. No camera on this one so will just be checking tracks for now. It's in a spot where 5 tractor roads meet. Expecting better results here. No one will be hunting our chunk till the 15th. Hopefully they pay off.
Where I hunt i don't have vines ,oak or jack pine. There are popple hard maple and some hemlock. What do think would be best to use? They rub on the aspen and small maple the most. There are basswood around as well
I may not have gotten a BIG buck this year, but I can attest to just how effective these sites and vines are. Does, fawns and all bucks just HAVE to investigate the branch. Added bonus: Checking you cameras becomes a LOT more fun :) Since a big part of my back ground is trapping, it's like checking traps to me. Thank you Jeff!
Anyone try a peach tree branch ?
I made a vine licking branch this week and sprayed it with some Buck Fever synthetic forehead gland . Checked my camera 2 days later and had a right nice buck checking it out. I made one in the same area last year and never got any pics...I think the Buck Fever helped !
Hey jeff just wanted to say your videos are top notch and extremely informative. Up here in Ontario we don't really have viens, so i tried your licking branch strategy with a branch from a maple tree that still had leaves on it. Took a piece of rope tied the branch to a smaller tree that had fallen across a deer trail and the tree was about 7 ft up. I dangled the branch just to the side of the trail. Set up a camera and wow .. the deer are hitting this branch like crazy bucks, doe's. Unbelievable, thanks for the tip and it honestly works like a dream
I dont have the trees you recommended on my property 176 acres of pines/holly trees. Seems all bucks are doing scrapes on low hanging holly branches. Would that be a good branch to hang? Or cut vines off of trees at my house?!?
Ok you've talked me into it. I'm hanging one soon. The bucks have destroyed my no1 natural scrape branch. Putting it there. I know you've been working but if you can go back to the 40acre bucks vid you have some questions. Thanks Jeff!!
Mulberry tree's make for good licking branches around here and the deer love's the fruit in the summer time. great tree for seeing deer activity year round.
Great idea I have been using red oak pin oaks and I try to find one that doesn’t drop its leaves right away . I have a few diff oaks in my yard and from year to year different tree keep their leaves all winter I will use branches from one of them and wire it to a tree in a scrape prone area and I get action instantly I will spit on the tree branch it’s and dig a small pit with a stick and urinate in it my self set a camera and not go back for a week atleast and it will be tore up the trick it to set them up right as the first scrapes start to open up. Near me this is usually from the 2nd to 3rd week in October.
For a LOT more info on creating mock scrapes, using vine licking branches and mock scrape strategies...check out my mock scrape playlist!
One of our favorite strategies!
January 3 this year I seen 8 bucks in a corn field and 4 buck fights, two of which where knock down drag out fights, Amazing. Already located some vines when out hunting I plan to use, thanks so much.
Thank for you videos very helpful for use young guys
Used one this season and worked to perfection. Will definitely be using this tactic more often.
Great video brother. I’m thankful that you shared it with us. May THR LORD Bless your whole day Amen.
Awesome never thought of it.
Thanks for the vid!!!
I'll be trying this. 🤘 thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Grape vine worked good for me in tenn grate information as all wase out a here