#427 - Make Mature Bucks Hunt You: The Mock Scrape Setup That Flips the Table on a Nocturnal Buck with Jeff Hopkins

Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with Jeff Hopkins.

We Discuss:

• A buck's tarsal gland leaves a scent fingerprint that bottled urine can't copy.
• Frozen tarsal glands soaked in glycerin gel make your own dominant buck scent.
• Wax paper under a mock scrape keeps your lure from soaking into the ground.
• The direction a buck kicks scrape dirt tells you which way he's traveling.
• A mock scrape carrying a stranger's scent makes the resident buck hunt you.
• Two or three well-placed mock scrapes beat a farm covered in them.
• Baking soda patted in with a sock outperforms any bottled field spray.
• Nothing completely beats a deer's nose — you just make him think you're farther off.
• A rub on both sides of a tree means he's working that line back and forth.
• Rattling pays in a short pre-Halloween window, in 10 to 15 second sequences.

And So Much More!

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