Originally posted by 3toe:
After several years of hunting both, now I hunt neither. Most camera evidence I have obtained shows most if not all scrape activity in my area is done at night. Rub lines are good to show a core area of a buck but not a sure thing he is using it in the daytime. This time of year I would concentrate on food sources, and then find the transition areas to and from the bedding areas. I found hunting scrapes and rub lines to have a very low success ratio
I have only killed one mature buck in the remote vicinity of an active scrape in the last 15 years. They are definitely not a high probability of success area. Our cameras have shown the same thing. 10 bucks may hit a scrape at night and 0 during legal light.