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#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…
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