#427 - Make Mature Bucks Hunt You: The Mock Scrape Setup That Flips the Table on a Nocturnal Buck with Jeff Hopkins
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#427 - Make Mature Bucks Hunt You: The Mock Scrape Setup That Flips the Table on a Nocturnal Buck with Jeff Hopkins

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 4, 20261h 0m

Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with Jeff Hopkins. We Discuss: A buck's tarsal gland leaves a scent fingerprint that bottled urine can't copy. Frozen tarsal glands soaked in glycerin gel make your own dominant buck scent. Wax paper under a mock scrape keeps your lure from soaking into the ground. The direction a buck kicks scrape dirt tells you which way he's traveling. A mock scrape carrying a stranger's scent makes the resident buck hunt you. Two or...

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It's a killer, man. I have killed more deer using this tactic than I can say. All right, in this week's episode of the Whitetail Podcast presented by Onyx, we are joined by Jeff Hopkins. Now, Jeff has been hunting for 47 years and has stacked up 17 bucks, scoring over 170 inches. It's not just urine, it's that buck's fingerprint that's on that

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scent that you're making. We're going to break down how to build a dominant buck's exact scent fingerprint how to read mock scrapes like a map and pose the question of who's really doing the hunting with Jeff's strategy here we go guess what you just flipped the tables on this dominant mature buck you wonder how you take bucks that are nocturnal or you call unkillable or these

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mature bucks that you don't seem like you can kill them make him hunt you all right Jeff we're we just people listening to this now will hopefully remember the April episode that we did that let us know who you were and some things you've observed. And, you know, you're writing a book with the three Ps,

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