I’ve killed some good deer working scrapes over the years. However, it’s too random of visitation for me to spend much time on them, especially past the pre rut phase. I’ve been placing trail cameras(in video mode) on scrapes for the last several years and have seen mature bucks working/visiting scrapes in areas that I would’ve thought would only been visited at night. It’s been a fun and informative research project for myself. During this time, I’ve also placed cameras on nearby beds, that I figured to be buck beds. They were indeed buck beds and was able to capture some cool videos from them.
Yes! The best place to keep cams pre rut and post rut is on active scrapes. It will tell you a lot about who’s coming through. There’s a LOT of bucks that will visit an individual scrape.
