When Do You Transition Cams to Scrapes

[Jarred525]

Just curious as to when everyone makes the decision to move cameras to scrapes? I put a camera on one of my "old faithful" scrapes last week but no action as of yet.

 

[BSK]

As soon as real ones start to appear, which for my place this year was the last week of September. Normally, it's more like mid-October.

 

[TJS209]

I moved one a couple weeks ago and moved 2 more this past weekend. The first camera had a few bucks checking it.

 

[benellivol]

You do it now.

 

[BigD_625]

Now according to BSK's pics.

 

[BSK]

Scraping and scrape-checking generally peak in the three weeks prior to the beginning of peak breeding, and peaks really hard in the last week before peak breeding.

 

[Shed Hunter]

I just moved one to a scrape. I think I'll move all cams to scrapes by opening week of muzzleloader.

 

[Trevor2]

Last week

 

[Jarred525]

Thanks.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Whenever I start seeing them pop up and being checked regularly.

 

[RiverBuck10]

Going to put two cameras out today over a few I found hunting Sat!! I have never done this before and I am excited to see what happens!! I will post pics if they are worth anything!!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Usually around mid October for us. Though I did see close to 25 scrapes the second week of bow season. I haven't been back since due to my schedule. Will be there this weekend to check them. We have 7 cameras and all on different fields. They have been hammering them. I know the bucks are still coming to them, because my dad has been there and seen around 17 different bucks on 4 sits in these fields. If you had told me that anyone would see that many at our place in that amount of time, I wouldn't believe you. Though no matter what, they will be over scrapes/mock scrapes by the end of the weekend