6 Steps to a successful rope scrape for whitetail deer

[@trevorasher3528]

I never heard of using a Rope Scrape. THANK YOU. Because I'm disabled, this is a Great idea 💡. Thanks again.

[@jamesyoung8456]

This works. I watched this a few years ago and I still got it. It works.

[@mikes328]

couldnt you use a thick durable plastic zip tie to tie onto the branch? this method looks great!

[@stevencontrucci3155]

Hi you can also use Tie Wraps to tie your ropes and secure them to the tree.

[@jimlahey3919]

I set up a rope scrape near an active scrape line 3 days ago and took a 145” 11 point off of it this morning. I used the code blue rope a dope but I used some of my own camo rope instead of the blue rope. I put some active scrape scent below it and within a couple days it was completely torn up. I knew I had the attention of a good buck and he showed up 20 minutes into shooting light this morning. I’ve been able to trick a lot of big buck into range in my life but this was my first time using the rope trick. I’ll be using it every year from now on.

[@MichealBacon]

Was this the buck - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH69e4dqjc-ad8U

[@Damian23223]

Why did you not use the blue rope? I have a blue one up rn and the only thing going to it is a spike just wondering if the color is scaring off the bigger ones

[@DrumnG83.]

Good to know it works. I just bought a blue rope a dope. Have seen a lot of good and bad reviews. Glad it worked for you, i hope I have the same success with this product.

[@Paul-q3m7k]

11 point lol

[@Chesswithwhitetails]

Appreciate the information Don. From Peoria area so it’s cool to see hunters like you in this neck of the woods.

[@rickhaberland9183]

Thx Don! I hung a few ropes last week as you showed. Today I bought the Smokeys Deer Lure to apply my trip out. I'll hang a fw cams and we shall see what happens...cant wait!

[@4thgenfarmer371]

How did the Smokies lure and the hemp rope work?

[@77bustoff]

For 50$ they should jump in your truck bed .

[@brianbishop3018]

Been waiting for this video since I submitted some questions on mock scrapes to your podcast.

[@johnnisley9715]

I hung a length of old manila hay rope from our barn on a tree branch probably ten years ago and applied Smokey’s pre-orbital and interdigital gland lure several times the first summer, since then I’ve had many deer and other animals visit the rope including bears, several years ago a bear hauled off my manila rope so I replaced it with a smaller diameter nylon rope and the show continues. Deer visit the rope year around and I haven’t applied any lure for years, every fall bucks put a scrape beneath the rope. Location definitely makes a difference because I tried other locations that weren’t as successful. I keep a camera on the rope year around.

[@DavidGonzalez-ek3zh]

Awesome. Use Smokeys on branches where they scrape. I've heard of this rope method. Thx

[@KurtonGD]

I remember Henry and Barry ..I was young man when were making videos..wow

[@darinblackburn6023]

Think I'm going to try this,this year.

[@mherndon100]

Is it absolutely necessary to use oil free Manila? Ordered some rope and later realized it had oil in the manufacturing process. Could it be washed or left out in the weather? January now, so I have time.

[@garybowman4630]

Gene and Barry awesome guys

[@jason6325]

Great tip. I'm going to try this. I have 200 acres that i hunt. I know the scraping areas. I know the bedding area, summer areas, fall areas, ect.... I've always wanted to try this. Thanks for the video. Have you ever tried a sideways tree for a rubbing post?? I've never tried it. Just curious if you ever have. And if so. Does it get hit? Thank you.

[@DavidGonzalez-ek3zh]

I used to live in Bloomington and Bellflower IL!!!

[@richardsimenc]

Very interesting techniques!

[@JohnJohnson-jt8ti]

Thanks Don! I have seen first hand now how these work. Keep’ elm coming!

[@ondaroadagain]

Love it Don. I've bought at least 1/2 doz hemp ropes - all advertised to be natural, but they all have a very strong petro chemical smell. Is there a way to wash these ropes to speed up getting rid of the smell?

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

I have not found a way to do that. Now I buy about 30' of rope at a time and hang it in a tree in my yard until I am ready to use it.

[@ondaroadagain]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 I did exactly that hung it out, we had record rainstorms over the last week, the ropes still had a strong odor. I even tried popping it in a "hunting clothes only clothes washer - no help. yesterday I strung it up in a strong flowing stream (submerged) hoping it will "wash it out" going to give it a few days and see if it made a difference. What have you found to be the time it takes to simply hang and wait (or did the ropes you purchased npot have that strong of an odor (if so, where did you purchase it)?

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

@@ondaroadagain thats why I have found it best to hang them at least 6 months before hunting season

[@billm2078]

I would imagine you could hand wash them in dawn dish soap.

[@Dougcusick]

Thanks for the idea Don, I have used drippers and mock scrapes before but not with a rope. I will definitely try it next season or maybe gamble this year but probably just wait and do it right!

[@ML-ks2lj]

I hung grape Vines ddeep down on a bluff in a travel route to bedding and haven't been back one time yet. Waiting for a North east wind and sitting across then river in he thicket and going to glass it

[@troybrake5686]

I use grape vines or and kind of vine really, I use smaller ones and let them hang off each side of my branch and the can get there mouth around it to leave scent, all my homebody deer hit it, even fawns

[@ericmayle8719]

What about using cable ties

[@bigben9242]

You should try ol Ted Miller’s horizontal rub branch...I use them and they work awesome

[@danielpifer9222]

Love this tactic! Put up 5 rope scrapes this year back in February, excited for the pics to start rolling in!

[@justsomecoolprayingmantisd6422]

Did you get any action on your camera?

[@danielpifer9222]

@@justsomecoolprayingmantisd6422 yessir! Can’t emphasize the importance of location though. 3 are getting demolished, 2 Barely even touched. I moved one in sept 10 yards and now it’s getting demolished.

[@justsomecoolprayingmantisd6422]

Good deal! I’m getting anxious again now that hunting season is a month away 🤝

[@PaulDeckard-k8b]

Well said

[@gibglofcheskie4644]

Great videos . Thank You . Good Hunting .

[@JoeMilesMWT]

Great info Don....thanks for sharing!

[@Farminginthecity]

I hunt in the South and its warmer weather but I have had more success using a cloth material rope over a synthetic material rope.

[@anthonymalueg3520]

Love the information keep it coming

[@ronmacdougall9612]

Awesome video Don

[@murdered1415]

2 feet off the ground but most pictures are of bucks with the rope about 4 foot of the ground, waist high is a good height

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

Those photos are from a number of different scrapes over several years. Today I try to get the end of the rope 2-3' off the ground

[@scottjkern]

Well I’m wondering what kind of rope you get so it don’t smell like oils and stuff what kind did you get and I don’t want expensive ones

[@Paul-q3m7k]

Zip ties work well with to attach them . Never rot

[@countrygirlgramma]

Thanks for the information. My husband and I both enjoy deer hunting. I'm a new subscriber.

[@ericstevens8744]

That’s great 👍

[@graysquirreltreeservice7299]

I been doing vine scrapes 😁😁white tail habit solutions great hunter likeu

[@NickCarlone-v3y]

Informational

[@travisshuttleworth630]

Im not sure if i can hang ropes on public so i hang vines and i have at least one nice buck hitting it everyday already so its not too early!

[@davisdewolfe2938]

I have mine hanging off a 4 by 4 then a 2 by 4 coming off of that. They're on top of the food plots. I got a late start at put them in in August. Is it okay to have them on in the food plots? Too early for the deer to start using them? Haven't had much luck yet

[@jacobfox1622]

Do you tend to have a limit on how many rope scrapes per property/acreage?

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

Depending on the layout of the property about 1 per 100 acres +/-

[@jacobfox1622]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 Thanks!

[@randallbahr3661]

Will a black zip tie work to hold the knot to the tree.

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

wire is better

[@2CanTan]

Dang, I got to be the first view and Comment! Ha. Don, thanks for all you do. What is your view on rope vs vine or limb tied to a limb or basically tied to what you do. Rope or Natural limb better for absorbing that scent?

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

I personally like the ropes but grape vines also work very well.

[@anthonymalueg3520]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 I have been using vines for years and works well

[@keithalcibiade3126]

Why is it that you like the rope over the vine ?

[@thomaslehmann5981]

​@keithalcibiade3126 every time I have tried vines the bucks get the vine in their rack twist and break it off. Time after time. Rope that won't happen

[@WhispersinmyMind]

Do you scent the length of the rope or just the frayed end?

[@TheRaghorn]

Not to argue, but I see ropes hanging at least 3 foot off the ground and bucks are reaching up to get them. I hang all my vines and oak limbs 4 foot to the bottom, so is that too high in your opinion??

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

I like to get them 3-4' above the ground but admitedly they are not all like that in the photos. Thanks for watching

[@681419]

@theraghorn I put mine up last year, probably 5 feet in the air as never seen a video before …. Didn’t have any luck last year with it. Plenty of bugs walking around by, but didn’t even look at it….Any luck with it uo high

[@TheRaghorn]

@@681419 Never, they will walk by it everytime. If its too high for a buck then it is really too high for a doe and therefor she can never put her scent on it, so it as though she was never there. in my opinion.

[@scottjkern]

I’m gonna ask you a question but I want you to answer me soon. I just bought some nice hemp rope and I smell it. It smells like a farm rope that you put around bales so anyhow my question is would you use a plastic zip tie if I tie you not then I would take up too much room.

[@stephenkutney9626]

Where can one buy a 10-foot one-inch rope?

[@joedotson4113]

That's a high 2 feet or mini deer ??

[@pecanslim]

Whats a national brand of lure i can put on rope, like from Walmart?

[@mikehoont9025]

Do ropes grow naturally in the wild? Why not a vine or a branch?

[@JacobSchmittDeerHuntingSchool]

Do you think the smokies synthetic deer lure will work on these? Actual deer lure from real deer is banned in my state do to CWD. I always just put cameras on real scraps but would love to position a scrap like this to shoot to on a few setups.

[@josephbennett4442]

Do u have a link to Smokey scents ?

[@billmoran935]

Are they better than a piece of hanging vine?

[@will2-b150]

I wonder if soaking the rope for a few days in some rain water would do the trick for those of us who procrastinate..lol

[@fivekeys1376]

Same idea

[@adammckinley4804]

You say 2 feet but then your pictures show them being over 4'.

[@georgebennett4722]

He said 2 feet off of the ground. Pay attention

[@graysquirreltreeservice7299]

I use vines so guys don't see em as easy as rope scrape but u are on private land I hunt public 🦌🦌🦌🦌🙏🙏great videos

[@scottjkern]

Hello I had this information years ago from Whitetail habitat it’s called I forgot his name but boy it was called the licking branch and boy I got all kinds of pictures of bucks. I hung on the outside of the woods along my field and there was a nice trail that came out. There bucks were just go to hell with them and one time they must’ve got their antlers, caught in a broke the next day. I had to put it back up now everything wasn’t natural I made my own little Shelf bracket so I can hang it out I didn’t have a tree that had a lot of branches that were strong enough and that didn’t bother them one bit. I also have a trail. I call the tractor trail. It’s maybe about 30 yards long. It goes to the neighbors field. I put one in there and boy that’s a nonstop user that sucker gets used all the time even today even do and fun stop and sniff at it all the time. So now I’m gonna take everything down. I’m gonna try the rope. See what happens. I hope everything goes well.

[@johnmaxwell258]

Can you use Manila rope. Is it the same ???

[@carterlarson9055]

Yep

[@adamwalstrom7717]

So I hung my rope. Wanted it to hang for a bit to dry out before I put scent on it. Damn bear keeps pulling it down. Anyone else have this issue?

[@paulreenders8775]

I just killed a 14 point non typ. Buck that was following 6 does but stop to check my rope scrap double lunged him😊

[@surffishermanandcrossbowki9457]

As a total novice at this stuff it is weird when one "specialist' says ropes don't work then the next "specialist" says they do. Seems to me that anything you hang in that location might become something they use if it can hold scent.

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

to differentiate one "specialist" from another, look at their results. The internet is full of talkers repeating things they heard or promoting unproven theories so you have to look at what they have actually accomplished. I am not sure how anyone could watch this video and see all the photos of bucks working the ropes and question if they work???

[@profpat70]

Soak the frayed end in salt water several days before installing it. I also put peanut butter on it to attract the deer to it initially . Not a big fan of using the Roundup!

[@profpat70]

I have found that dipping the flayed end in Molasses works even better that the Peanut Butter.

[@JohnDoe-jk8yy]

That Smokey’s shit better be good it’s 60 bucks 15 bucks a oz

[@scottjkern]

I see you using wire. I think a zip tie would work too, correct

[@kmike58]

Smokeys wicked wick …..4 oz bottle. $50

[@Iron_Road]

I dunno about the human scent thing. There's a guy I know he pees in his scrapes and it don't scrare the bucks or does none.

[@offgridwhitetails8768]

Please folks. Do not use wire. Use large zip ties. Wire will cause cuts. Or worse put a damn eye out. Seen it. I had to put down a promising 3.5 year old due to my stupidity using wire. Heartbreaking experience. Oh and will someone tell him camera is to the right. Lol. Good topic though. Just needs some someone to mention NO WIRE.

[@zzz7zzz9]

where i live, our heat and UV is so extreme, that zipties are toast fairly quickly when left out in the elements. i thought of that right away, using zipties instead, but then thought of what i've experienced with them here. although, now that i think of it, i actually used zipties a few years ago. one of my favourite cam spots, on a natural scrape/licking branch. the one season, i came in, and there was the licking branch, broken off and laying on the ground. i had some small twine with me, so i overlapped it back to where it was and tied it back in place. on my next trip there, i brought two zipties to add to the repair, to further strengthen it. last i checked, it was still holding up. i guess being sheltered in the woods makes a big difference. my tcam revealed a big cow had broke it off. all our ranches are allowed to release their cattle up into the public lands to free-range all summer. they get them back on the ranches when the snow gets too deep. this cow also reacted to the licking branch and roughed it up, breaking it off.

[@joshmayes5591]

Nothing Beats Mock Scrapes. Buck Wild Synthetics Lick'N Branch Scent on the Rope will absolutely put Mature Bucks on Camera. Great video on rope Scrapes.

[@TomDomanski-zs6ly]

This is different

[@JohnDoe-jk8yy]

I don’t think I would use the round up

[@frankmack7517]

I heard this was illegal, , like federal illegal

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

you heard wrong

[@nedcarter6553]

The price of that sent the deer should die right there and be hanging on a skinning rack and in your freezer in one hr.

[@josephbennett4442]

Ant no way if u have hundreds of acres that u will get every deer on cam with one of those on one cam lol

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

depends on the size of the property. I dont have any property that I hunt that is "hundreds of acres"

[@josephbennett4442]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 yes , I have 54 acres I hunt and then another 30 and I get deer on different sections on the lands I run 4+ cams on the 54 acres and 2-3 on the 30 and all cams i get different deer on that the other one doesn’t get

[@josephbennett4442]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 can you do a video on hunting benches and ridge tops

[@jeremykendall3003]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 what place do you order your rope? I’ve heard some hemp ropes have chemicals on them that repel deer. But they don’t tell you that in there description.

[@stanleybuck4195]

Surprised you spray poison under the rope.

[@shredpow]

Are you talking to me? Look at me, then. Very distracting.

[@brianjones866]

You can manage without the round up🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Hammerback0]

Yeah, diesel fuel works well.

[@Hammerback0]

Or used motor oil…

[@revskull]

So?

[@brianjones866]

@@revskull $hit kills you too. Long live Monsanto 🫠

[@docfinger9320]

Round up?!?!

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

YES! Works great!

[@tim03b_48]

Grape vines > Silly Rope idea

[@channeellll7623]

Whitetail Habitat Solutions says ropes are really not that great.

[@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147]

do you trust someone who makes a living putting out numerous contradictory videos each week to make a living from monetized videos? He has to come up with a continual flow of nonsense to keep people watching and in turn keep making money

[@royguidry1311]

@@chasinggiantswithhigginsou6147 interesting !!! He shoots big deer so there is something to his methods. You shoot big deer, I’ve watched your two giants get smoked. Would be interested in hearing what you feel are Jeff’s nonsense beliefs. I know he can be a bit stubborn about only one way to do everything.

[@LetThemGrow]

Nobody is making you do it one way or the other. I’m willing to try this regardless of what others say.

[@rudygeorgiamulesandcountry1594]

The very first time thatI heard about artificial rope scrapes was many years ago from Jeff Sturgis of , "Whitetail Habitat Solutions" ; here on y/t .