Buck Scrape Traditional Cache

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Reviewer Smith: As I have not heard from the cache owner within the requested time frame, the cache is being archived.

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Hidden : 11/10/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Located between old highway 50 and Illinois Highway 50 in Richland County. Use old highway 50 as your access point. No night caching.

As I entered this secluded area, I immediately spotted a buck scrape. Deer "scrape" the ground with their hooves- - and at times will do so with their antlers. The scrapes will range from the size of a dinner plate to that of a child's portable swimming pool. Put money on the fact that if you find a swimming pool sized scrape, you've either got one huge trophy buck, or it's a "community scrape," where all the deer are together. That type of community scrape usually means younger, or immature bucks. A mature buck will normally stay to himself and scrape distinct areas to announce his presence and mark his territory.

Different types of scrapes mean different types of bucks. Young bucks go along, and they really don't know what they're doing. It's like a 16 year old going out on his first date - -he has some instinctive idea of what he's supposed to be doing but doesn't really know the ball game. So young bucks go out and start marking territory everywhere. There's no rhyme or reason to their scraping. If they see a scrape from another buck, they'll scrape in the same area, and in the end the area will become a community scrape, of sorts. The young bucks will return to these areas to check out what's happening. They don't really recognize that they're marking the area. On the other hand, a mature, dominant buck knows exactly what he's doing. They scrape, and they announce by their scrapes that they're marking their territory, telling other bucks to stay out of it.

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