Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

Archery season for whitetails can be one of the most frustrating of all the upland shooting sports. Tough, lonely, uncomfortable ... bow hunting tests our physical and emotional stamina. And when the ...

If one wants to get into a fistfight at deer camp, bring up scrape hunting. The use of hunting over, or near, scrapes is a much-debated topic in the world of the whitetail. Again, all I can pass along ...

Setting up a stand or blind in the right spot is easy to do this time of year. Just look for deer scrapes. A stand located along a trail that ties together several fresh deer scrapes is a great place ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

Bowhunting for whitetail deer is the most accessible and thrilling big-game hunt in all of North America. A mature, rut-crazed whitetail buck that stomps and grunts his way into bow range on a crisp ...

Archery deer hunters are hard at it. The shotgun season will be here soon. Deer activity, or lack of it, is hot coffee-shop conversation. Scrapes and rubs are good indicators of whether there are ...

Everybody has at least one hunting buddy who will swear on his granddaddy’s rifle that he’s found the “secret sauce” for pulling big bucks. Maybe he has, or maybe he just likes to talk a big game ...

With the beginning of the pre-rut about to get underway scrape lines will be popping up as the big bucks mark their territories. It offers bow hunters that edge they’re looking for to put themselves ...