Thank you. I'm just catching up on all the great information you are sharing. I appreciate your no nonsense approach to deer management. I'm excited to try building a few mock scrapes and watching what happens! It'll be interesting to see what I can do to improve my 10 acres.
I’ve been watching you teach mock scrapes for years. I decided to try it this year. I set up four vine scrapes as you instructed. Put cameras on each. It has been one of the coolest things I have ever done. To see deer hit those vines is crazy. I wish I would have tried it sooner. Thank you for all your time and work you put in to your videos.
made mock scrape with licking branch beginning of July for first time already getting Deer there all does and fawns so far but have a feeling that will change soon ty for your videos keep them coming
I’m mainly usually using beech branches in the Adirondacks last 3 years, but man, you’re spot on! Everything hits them. Fantastic way to get inventory.
@@williamlasure6301hey man! I live in Granville NY, right on the VT border. I hunt VT too. I’ve found vines to work in both States. I’ve also used Beech and Hemlock. Whatever is on hand
Jeff love your videos. I finally hung a vine this past season with no additional attractant and to my semi skeptical belief had deer using it within 24hours. (Skeptical being that they would use it so soon not skeptical it would work.) What I was extremely surprised by is that I had a black bear also using it. Have you seen this in your travels and will it affect deer use? I have not had the opportunity to see for myself yet as I made this late in season and took camera down on January 1st. Have not had time to get to any deer chores yet as my teenage daughter plays softball alot but have plans of another scrape and stand location soon and will be putting up cameras then. Thanks in advance for your input on this.
Hung four vines this weekend. Have had great success with the hanging vines since your video about them and the majority have become huge deer magnets. Thank you Jeff for the suggestion. We have a couple that blow up before and during the rut. It’s awesome to see all the deer from fawns to bucks using them every day.
Mock scrape question... I'm in SW Kansas. The only trees are Cottonwood, Cedar, and Tamarisk. None of them seems to work very well for the mock scrapes that I've put up. They get hit a little bit, but not much. Any suggestions for synthetic materials? Should I take a road-trip and get some vines?
The power of the vine,who besides Jeff could have came up with this .Far and away the very best draw for Deer,cameras do not lie,nothing else works as well as the VINE!!!
If you were on a small parcel that you could not do food plots, would you rather have just mock scrapes or mock scrapes combined with corn for baiting?
i tried Jeff's vertical mock scrape last fall for the first time in northern Wisconsin. Very low deer numbers in the area. Within hours the first deer were hitting it. It has become an attraction to not just deer but all wildlife. Fisher seem very attracted to it. Jeff is right on, your missing the boat if u don't try this!
Best Whitetail deer content and information on RUclips. I feel like bucks hit shrubs more than an actual rub when in the mood and shrubs are everywhere lol
In your opinion, is it too late for putting in a waterhole if bow season starts at the end of September? I've got a nice mock scrape with a vine on a deer trail junction within 20 yards of my stand and was considering implementing a waterhole as well but wasn't sure if it was too late (my concern was spooking deer with something new or unnatural). P.S. You forgot to mention Ohio!
I have vines that were choking out apple trees and for years i would throw them in my brush piles. Now i have used them as Jeff advised and WOW. Its mid summer and the deer use them all the time..
It’s time I move/improve my mock scrape setup. Amazing results (first timer!) last year but a more natural look, better designed movement and shootable location are needed. Always grateful to learn !! Thanks
Good morning Jeff I check my cameras this morning and I got three cameras and three mock scrap set up and two out the three were hit three does on one mock scrap and two does on the other really excited to see that. So thank for your videos it just shows what you say it works keep up the great work and all the great videos that you and Dylan put out thank you 👍👍👍👍👍
I have three sights with water, vine scrapes and mineral blocks. This year our corn didn't germinate because it didn't rain. We do have a blend that we plant in August and that really brings the deer in. The problem is we wont have any food sources for late season. What would you recommend we do sense we have no corn this year?
Do you have any ideas for getting predators off my property? I have 4 different bear and a few coyotes on my 5 acre parcel. Any help would be awesome. Thanks. Edit i haven't seen deer in over a month sense all the predation moved in.
Not sure? I've never advocated trail cams 10' off the ground. BUT, I have advocated placing trail cams 6-7' off the ground before anyone else online, and have a couple dozen videos on this channel recommending that as a critical step in hiding cameras. If someone can't reach it and view pics on the cam while mounted...its too high. Again tho...not a good overall practice to be 10' off the ground or more. I would say that 27/30 trail cams of mine right now in the woods...are at about a 6' average. I'm adding 5 more today...they will all be between 6 and 7.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Ok , my memory must be slipping, I just hung a vine on my UP property on a well beaten trail 75yds beyond my food plot, thanks for the reply and all your tip's
Here in North West Ohio, I found a group of 1 inch small trees that had been rubbed on. I cut them off at the ground and hung as vertical mock rubs. It's been 2 years. And nothing is using them.
I have had better luck with water troughs on drought years until wild hogs found them and would drowned and you talk about stanky. It would take over a month for the water hole to start being used again. I can't describe in words how nasty and hard to clean out the trough. I've seen wild naturally started scrapes that were used all year long. The kept the leaves cleaned out to.
Finally got bucks hitting my mock scrape vine. I'm happy. Thanks jeff. Wish I could share the photo.
Thank you. I'm just catching up on all the great information you are sharing. I appreciate your no nonsense approach to deer management. I'm excited to try building a few mock scrapes and watching what happens! It'll be interesting to see what I can do to improve my 10 acres.
I’ve been watching you teach mock scrapes for years. I decided to try it this year. I set up four vine scrapes as you instructed. Put cameras on each. It has been one of the coolest things I have ever done. To see deer hit those vines is crazy. I wish I would have tried it sooner. Thank you for all your time and work you put in to your videos.
Sorry I’m late??I was watching your pod cast interview !!
made mock scrape with licking branch beginning of July for first time already getting Deer there all does and fawns so far but have a feeling that will change soon ty for your videos keep them coming
Thanks 👍 Good content!
Excellent information and video. Thanks
Thank YOU for watching...you are very welcome!
I’m mainly usually using beech branches in the Adirondacks last 3 years, but man, you’re spot on! Everything hits them. Fantastic way to get inventory.
I bend a branch down and put Moke under. Had to bend new one this year last one lasted 2 years. Vines didn't work good in Vermont
@@williamlasure6301hey man! I live in Granville NY, right on the VT border. I hunt VT too. I’ve found vines to work in both States. I’ve also used Beech and Hemlock. Whatever is on hand
Jeff love your videos. I finally hung a vine this past season with no additional attractant and to my semi skeptical belief had deer using it within 24hours. (Skeptical being that they would use it so soon not skeptical it would work.) What I was extremely surprised by is that I had a black bear also using it. Have you seen this in your travels and will it affect deer use? I have not had the opportunity to see for myself yet as I made this late in season and took camera down on January 1st. Have not had time to get to any deer chores yet as my teenage daughter plays softball alot but have plans of another scrape and stand location soon and will be putting up cameras then. Thanks in advance for your input on this.
Have you ever used old bathtubs for water holes?
No but that's seems like a great idea if not too thin!
Thanks so much for all the great wt info!
Great content as always, the absolute best on RUclips.
Thank you very much Mitchell!
The old peanut butter jar trick...takes me back
Jeff u have for ever changed the way I look at vines!
Hung four vines this weekend. Have had great success with the hanging vines since your video about them and the majority have become huge deer magnets. Thank you Jeff for the suggestion. We have a couple that blow up before and during the rut. It’s awesome to see all the deer from fawns to bucks using them every day.
I've been running vine mock scrape for 2 years now after watching one of your videos on them. I can vouch that the deer hit it 365 days a year
Mock scrape question... I'm in SW Kansas. The only trees are Cottonwood, Cedar, and Tamarisk. None of them seems to work very well for the mock scrapes that I've put up. They get hit a little bit, but not much. Any suggestions for synthetic materials? Should I take a road-trip and get some vines?
We have a lot of poison ivy vines around, what about using a 3/4 branch instead?
The power of the vine,who besides Jeff could have came up with this .Far and away the very best draw for Deer,cameras do not lie,nothing else works as well as the VINE!!!
If you were on a small parcel that you could not do food plots, would you rather have just mock scrapes or mock scrapes combined with corn for baiting?
Looking 4wrd to seeing what Venti becomes this year
i tried Jeff's vertical mock scrape last fall for the first time in northern Wisconsin. Very low deer numbers in the area. Within hours the first deer were hitting it. It has become an attraction to not just deer but all wildlife. Fisher seem very attracted to it. Jeff is right on, your missing the boat if u don't try this!
Best Whitetail deer content and information on RUclips. I feel like bucks hit shrubs more than an actual rub when in the mood and shrubs are everywhere lol
So true Travis...great observation!! And thanks again for watching 😊
In your opinion, is it too late for putting in a waterhole if bow season starts at the end of September? I've got a nice mock scrape with a vine on a deer trail junction within 20 yards of my stand and was considering implementing a waterhole as well but wasn't sure if it was too late (my concern was spooking deer with something new or unnatural).
P.S. You forgot to mention Ohio!
I have vines that were choking out apple trees and for years i would throw them in my brush piles.
Now i have used them as Jeff advised and WOW. Its mid summer and the deer use them all the time..
It’s time I move/improve my mock scrape setup. Amazing results (first timer!) last year but a more natural look, better designed movement and shootable location are needed. Always grateful to learn !! Thanks
Hung 2 cams on public yesterday. Ones on a water hole on a ridge, one's on a mock scrape... curious to see which one produces more activity.
Good morning Jeff I check my cameras this morning and I got three cameras and three mock scrap set up and two out the three were hit three does on one mock scrap and two does on the other really excited to see that. So thank for your videos it just shows what you say it works keep up the great work and all the great videos that you and Dylan put out thank you 👍👍👍👍👍
I have three sights with water, vine scrapes and mineral blocks. This year our corn didn't germinate because it didn't rain. We do have a blend that we plant in August and that really brings the deer in. The problem is we wont have any food sources for late season. What would you recommend we do sense we have no corn this year?
What are your settings on the render cell cams? I have mine on 12 picture mode and they seem blurry on SCOUTEK
Hi Jeff! When do you take the weed barrier off your red osier dogwood shrubs? Thanks! Your content really helps Me!
First again second day in a row I'm a roll
Ha, you sure are Denny...this was a tough one too as it was a little later than normal 😊
That’s easy without even looking at the video it’s the mock scrape
mock scrape with water hole I bet
I kind of like that combo 😊
That’s because we already watched him say this same thing 25 times but we still love hearing it! 🤷♂️
Any tips on baiting deer with corn and peaches, blueberries for pic's
And also how can I make a deer paradise food plot on 1acre of land
Do you have any ideas for getting predators off my property? I have 4 different bear and a few coyotes on my 5 acre parcel. Any help would be awesome. Thanks. Edit i haven't seen deer in over a month sense all the predation moved in.
What happened to hanging cameras at least 10' off the ground?
Not sure? I've never advocated trail cams 10' off the ground. BUT, I have advocated placing trail cams 6-7' off the ground before anyone else online, and have a couple dozen videos on this channel recommending that as a critical step in hiding cameras. If someone can't reach it and view pics on the cam while mounted...its too high. Again tho...not a good overall practice to be 10' off the ground or more. I would say that 27/30 trail cams of mine right now in the woods...are at about a 6' average. I'm adding 5 more today...they will all be between 6 and 7.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Ok , my memory must be slipping, I just hung a vine on my UP property on a well beaten trail 75yds beyond my food plot, thanks for the reply and all your tip's
Would you put mock scrapes out on public land (MI) or just find historic scrapes you can shoot to ?pros and cons of mock scrapes on public?
Anyone can hunt them
@@dennybirchfield yeah I figured that was a con off RIP but in the right area not a lot of people will travel thru hard to get places
How long do wait till u move a mock scrap?
Put 4 new mocks out on 60 within a day or two they all were hit by different deer Jeff knows what he's talking about listen people
So dang cool Denny...happy for you!! So enjoyable too. Thanks a lot!
Have you seen any of Ted Millers footage on horizantal rubs? Seems to work on his farm. The Hunting Public did a video on it.
What brand of peanut butter do the deer like the best? LOL
On public people put rubs to keep other people from hunting where the real bucks are!!!
What about Ohio? I love hunting Ohio myself
Here in North West Ohio, I found a group of 1 inch small trees that had been rubbed on. I cut them off at the ground and hung as vertical mock rubs. It's been 2 years. And nothing is using them.
I have had better luck with water troughs on drought years until wild hogs found them and would drowned and you talk about stanky. It would take over a month for the water hole to start being used again. I can't describe in words how nasty and hard to clean out the trough. I've seen wild naturally started scrapes that were used all year long. The kept the leaves cleaned out to.