Brad Jones My passion is whitetails

Welcome to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. This is your host, Bruce Hutcheon, and today we're heading to Wisconsin and we're not going to talk about the Packers folks, we're going to chat with Brad Jones from the Madison area and the owner of Scrape Line Hunters. Hey Brad, welcome to the show. Brad Jones My passion is whitetails

 

Brad: Hey Bruce, thanks for having me.

 

Bruce: Hey, let's just start right off. Let's talk about the mission and the vision and why you started Scrape Line Hunters?

 I started Scrape Line Hunters along with my brother Mike

Brad: I started Scrape Line Hunters along with my brother Mike because we had both obtained some land and we wanted to set it up for deer hunting. We had struggled like everybody else when you first get into deer hunting, not really realizing how we could attract deer and hold deer in our property. So, we set up a website, and it kind of follows what we did to make improvements. Like putting in food plots, habitat improvements, where to place your tree stand or ground line, how to use trail cameras effective, and scent control, that was another big thing that we did. Brad Jones My passion is whitetails

 

Bruce: So, when a person goes to your website, what do they see?

 

Brad: Bruce, they're going to find everything that we've done on the property to be able to shoot mature bucks. We have a section that's all on food plots and then we have another section, our blogs, which talk about daily and weekly improvements that we've made on the property. Brad Jones My passion is whitetails

 

Bruce: And do you have video? Is it video and narratives?

 

Brad: Yes, we've got a YouTube page that we show things like frost seeding, how to put in food plots, how to use trail cams effectively, how to put up your tree stand and pinch points, and how to screen in your hunting land so people can't see into it and you can use screening to get to your tree stand without the deer seeing you. My passion is whitetails Scrape Line Hunters Pro Staff

 

Bruce: Pinch points, talk to me about pinch points. What does that mean to you?

Pinch points to me is a narrowing of a property

Brad: Pinch points to me is a narrowing of a property where the deer are going to travel across your...like a large field, okay. When a deer comes into a large field, he can go anywhere he wants to. We want to find an area within that field that moves the deer, funnels him down to a certain area. Then that's where we'll place our stand. If we have a large field where we don't have a natural pinch point, we can make one. We can put in different types of screening to force those deer down to that little pinch point.

 

Bruce: Ah, now if you were a trapper, trappers actually alter the pathway of what they're trying to trap and they do that by putting brush and sticks and there's all sorts of secrets. So is that what you're doing with your...I'm not going to say you're herding deer, but you're changing their behavior? Would that be a fair statement?

 

Brad: That's exactly what we're doing. We're bringing the deer to us, to our tree stand, to where we're going to hunt, and we can funnel them down. Like I said, we can put in screening, Egyptian wheat, sorghum, corn, hedge-cutting trees down, and it just naturally funnels them right to our stand or where we want them to go.

 because you can modify the deer's travel routes

Bruce: Listeners, I want you to take some notes on what Brad just said, because you can modify the deer's travel routes, you can help them move closer to your stand, or set line, or however you're set up there. But that's a very important fact that some people overlo...