Deer Scent?

[otis32]

Does anybody have any input on using deer scent?? I have been using it for yrs, but i was in the store the other day and was surprised on how many different brands and price range. Does it matter? thanks

[Musky Buck]

Save your $, try to plan your hunt where you think mature does will be on opening day and the doe looking back behind her that is sometimes often times traveling fawnless, and here he comes.

[Bear55]

I threw all my scents in the garbage many years ago, they might work to pull in a young dumb deer but if you are after something larger I wouldn't bother.

[Musky Buck]

Agree Bear and how's it going man ? The stuff would be outlawed if it worked as advertised, I love those high fence commercials or the buck at 4 AM that's sniffing it, it's never a spiker or a basket 6, it's a boone and crockett class buck sniffing away, MB

[Finlander]

It says right on the bottle: Guarenteed or your money back! I think they owe me alot of money and about a few million other hunters too!

[Musky Buck]

LOL, no doubt, the guarantee is it smells like dung. Maybe they should put some yukon jack in it so after the days hunt you could pound it and get a head start . jk I'm a finlander finlander !

[Finlander]

Musky Buck i'm half Finlander half Pollack! Guess Finlander sounds better than Polander!!!

Can't figure why I argue with myself! He He!

[Bear55]

Agree Bear and how's it going man ?

All is well, chasing big bucks with my bow but they have elluded me so far. Did you finally get off your butt and buy a bow?

[ClownColor]

Does anybody have any input on using deer scent?? I have been using it for yrs, but i was in the store the other day and was surprised on how many different brands and price range. Does it matter? thanks

I've actually found that those mock scrapes CAN bring in huge mature bucks. Like anything though, right place, right time, just about anything can happen. I'd never pay big bucks for some of that junk out there but some doe urine on the boots can serve its purpose alone if by just covering your own scent. Some people use other animal urines as cover scents but for the one out of 20 deer that will actually follow your urine trail, I stick with doe urine.

I buy the cheapest I can find.

[Boar]

Lol, ive tried using that deer scent smoking sticks, the one u are suposed to burn only during the rut, well i burn one during the rut an literally scared deer away, an to me it smelled like i was burning dung.

[Jarrid Houston]

Yes the great scent debate....I do believe it serves a purpose, but one has to study hard on where, when, and how to use em. I put a little urine on my boot to to help mask my scent. When trying other masking agents, be careful not to get the wrong one. For example dont buy sweet apple scent if you hunt in woods with out an apple tree. Try and keep things natural. I would agree that the biggest help to bagging a swamp thing is to do your homework, look for patterns, trails, scrapes, and dont get caught setting up your spot. Then just play the waiting game! The more time you spend in the woods, the more chance you will see him.......Gd luck! and yes buck fever is going around so be careful

[benbosh]

I used the Code Blue Estrus Doe gel for a scent drag last year bow hunting on the last day of gun season and it did work. Tied a piece of cloth to drag behind my boot with some of the gel on it and when I was walking back from my stand I seen a deer about 115 yards away across the CRP so I crouch down and get the binoculars up and could make out that it was a buck (it was after shooting time and getting dark fast with it being cloudy).

He seen me but after watching him for a bit he started coming towards me then when he got 80 yards away he hit my scent drag trail and his nose went down immediately and started coming in. I grunted at him just for kicks and he started coming in on a trot. I put my bow at head height to look like antlers like I've seen on TV with caribou hunting and he kept coming in and he got to 15 yards before I finally spooked him intentionally because he wasn't big enough for me to want to be mauled and beaten by hooves and antlers.

It has it's time and place. I've tried others with little to no success but I figured the gel form of scent would produce better for drags because the scent would last longer on the rag. Just my thoughts.

[Fever]

Well the question is certainly an interesting one. Clearly, I think the market is overflooded which makes it tough. I think though that are are so few things that are actually in our control when being in the big woods. Yes, we can play the wind, scout for sign, trails, feeding and bedding areas etc. Scent killer, human scent elimination efforts I believe are completely necessary. I do use doe in estrus, a bit of red fox urine for cover scent as well as a bit of trophy buck urine. I also do some rattling, grunting, and some snort weezing to add to the illusion of the scents. Last year I bought some team "Fitzgerald Deer Dander" and used it as a cover scent and to be used on a drag rag. On the last day the buck I ended up shooting walked right in on the exact path (ruffled leaves) as I walked with this Deer dander stuff. Litterally up to about 20 yds from my tree giving me little choice but to harvest him. I was amazed at how it worked. So... my point is if there is somehting you can do to increase your odds... why not try it as long as you can afford it?

[Musky Buck]

Bear you are sharper than the stick Ernest T. Bass sharpened to take out possum on Andy Griffith, no bow yet, got lucky though, the nice buck in the neighborhood lost half his rack already, how unknown but he's a 1 horn, the rest are future stock pending their elusiveness after Nov. 4th. So I go to hunt area 2 & 3 this fall where there is usually a couple to wage war against, I don't want to wait until the last day of musket like last year, that was a seriously cold hunt, but it had em on their feet to feed that morning and they fed a bit longer than they should've. Scent, no thanks, don't have the acreage to warrant scent, some of these bucks must smell scent on many different properties, the deal is at night often is when these bucks are smelling the real deal and chasing it, putting a dripper out won't take them away from there doe, I think the thought is once he's done with that do and goes looking again it may work, well in my area this is happening mainly after legal shooting light anyway.