What Dan says always makes sense. He is a master at his craft. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us. I hope you all have a blessed week. Dale

🦌🦌🎯I've harvested plenty of mature bucks on scrapes for years...before hunters really understood or recognized their significance. Scrapes on edges usually are worked during evening hours of darkness. The scrapes you find deep within a large public land section will usually have several different habitat types. Lets say you have a section or land bridge between swamps or what I call a natural land berm that's several feet higher within a swamp but runs for several hundred yrds...those scrapes identify his signature daily activity. The "Why" is he's surrounded by his security cover and never runs into human scent. These set ups are tuff hunting because hes traveling perpendicular in a small area entering and exiting differently on a daily bases. As different does enter and leave his calling card area his travel direction will most likely be dictated by their movement or activity. Usually hunting these locations your set ups should be unpredictable unless your undetected, see him pass thru, and make a simple distance/set up adjustment the nxt time in....I love hunting scrapes for one simple reason..they identify his "Core Area" they tell you your within a 200 acre area he travels on a regular basis....I could talk about scrapes and there activity all nite long. However, I like to mention I stopped registering my mature bucks in Commemorative Bucks of Michigan many years ago.. Some old school deer hunters have skills and abilities many will never understand. Dan's is one of those old school guys who has it. Love to share my thoughts and deer hunting tactics with Dan sometime...Good Luck and Good hunting

There’s a scrape where I hunt that shows up every late October for the last 4 seasons in the same exact location, in the summer it’s not active and covered up with leaves

Dan makes it sound so easy

Very tempting to hunt a nice scrape, it's never paid off for me. I'm still going to hunt over a bunch of scrapes this Thursday morning.

I like watching Dan super knowledgeable about deer. Just listen and learn...

Man this guy knows what he’s talking about, a mountain of knowledge

October 29, 2022. I was hunting over a mocke scrape and rattled for a couple of minutes. 15 mins later I had a young buck come through with his head up. I can tell I peaked his curiosity because his head was up looking around. Later that morning another small buck comes through. Now peaking my curiosity I got down at noon walked about 100 yards where they came from. That's when I found a scrape just like the one pictured above. The first buck must of been nearby when I rattled. Buck #1: -8:30am rattled. -8:46am Spotted a buck. -Temp 38 degrees. Buck #2: -10:00am rattled. -10:14am 2nd buck comes through. -Temp 41 degrees. I had the exact same question Dan has. Why and what is this scrape doing here? I have seen a decent 10 pointer walk through before on my trail cam.

As usual... Love Dan's Shirt!!! Make Hunting Great Again!!!

Great info, makes good sense and brings some light to scrapes.

I went to my property Saturday 7-3 2022 and found a fresh scrape

Dan's the MAN! Mr. big buck serial killer

Another good video Jake and Dan. Jake I know how big you are. In this video Dan looks to be a huge man. I had a missed opportunity with a good buck last year in just such a spot. I am planning a repeat with a better outcome on my part

thx again for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks Dan

Dan is the man!

So, you scout during the season because you don't see scrapes in the summer?

Love the shirt Dan

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#scrapeweek !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dan has soo much testosterone he can grow a beard overnight!

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I am the 99%

I literally learned nothing about hunting scrapes with this guy. He just told us about all the giant bucks that he killed that didn’t make Boone and Crockett