What was the name?

[leechlake]

First, I'm smoking a ham today, it's already smoked but why not smoke it again?  Now the cooking thread police will leave me alone.

I was thinking of Reb being sick and when I was a kid I was sick during deer hunting and I had this "buck lure" that came in a plastic bottle they sold at the convenience store. I got some on my glove, wiped my nose and for over 30 years whenever I get sick I can smell it.  It was something like Indian Buck Lure or something.  I'm pretty sure it was never extracted  from a buck, doe, fawn or any type animal.  Just smelled like gunk.  It was in a real small plastic bottle, grayish or clear color.  Any guesses?

Edited January 27, 2016 by leechlake

[RebelSS]

*WAACHOO!*  'cuse me. *SNORT*  Just bet it was this....from the 70's I think they still make it. Might have a bottle here somewhere; Holiday station stores used to sell it, and the Kmart gun dept (Back when they sold guns) had it too.

 

Edited January 27, 2016 by RebelSS

[lovebigbluegills]

Not sure why it popped into my head right away, because it's been quite a few years since I've seen it.

Pete Rickard's Indian Buck Lure

[leechlake]

that's not it.  The bottle was similar size and shape to a 20 gauge shell.

Edited January 27, 2016 by leechlake

[RebelSS]

Well, lbbg, guess we bombed out.      I bet LL's memory is just fuzzy from those days...

Edited January 27, 2016 by RebelSS

[lovebigbluegills]

3 minutes ago, RebelSS said:

Well, lbbg, guess we bombed out.      I bet LL's memory is just fuzzy from those days...

I reckon so....

[leechlake]

I know RH remembers, may even have a bottle still in the Jayco.  Great effort so far fellas.

[RebelSS]

That's it for me today, I haveta go back to my deathbed. 

[reinhard1]

Kris, sorry to say I would not know.  I have never used a buck "lure" or whatever they call it.  Just depend on my own smell LOL.  One time one of the guy's hung some of those drip things near my stand, and that's about as far as I got.  Didn't work that season, but could have been my scent.  Blew some scent around after eating some of the bean dishes we made.  .  good luck.

Edited January 27, 2016 by reinhard1

[leechlake]

My older cousin remembered.  Buck's Deer Scent. 1-1/4 oz bottles.  Came out like snot.  Smelled terrible.  

Edited January 27, 2016 by leechlake

[leech~~]

We use to dump this stuff all over ourselves when we first started out Deer hunting. It did add just a bit to the evening dinner with 10 guys around the table at the farm house! 

Buck Johnson Wildlife Scents, Inc.
PO Box 29, Grand Marais, MN 55604

[leechlake]

it's $3.49 now so I'm guessing thirty years ago it was 99 cents or so.  I remember exactly where I was leaning against a tree and wiping my nose with my gloved hand that I had spilled it on.  Sucked in a good snoot full and I can smell that stuff every time I have a similar type cold.  Frankly, I don't mind it at all.

[ThunderLund78]

That's funny, I'm the same way. It's one of those smells that the first time you smelled it, you recoiled in disgust. But now I've come to associate it with being in the woods on a crisp fall morning.  As long as my nose isn't right in the bottle, I'd say I almost enjoy catching a slight wiff on the breeze as I sit in the stand.  Same with 2-stroke outboard exhaust on a balmy and calm summer morning and spent gun powder on a cold day in the woods - two of my favorite smells on earth!  It's all about the state of mind the smell triggers.

[leechlake]

holy cow you nailed it.  I loved putting the old boat in on Leech first thing in the am and firing it up and smelling that cloud,  I had a spent 20 gauge shell in my cup holder in my truck for two months this Fall and would smell it from time to time.  It may still be there, I doubt I would have thrown it out.  

I will throw Hoppe's gun solvent in the mix too.  When I was a kid I used to think it smelled like banana.  Haven't used it in years.

Edited February 1, 2016 by leechlake

[RebelSS]

Don't forget that early morning damp, slightly fishy smell on the lake as the fog slowly lifts and the water laps gently at the shore....then that whiff of  2 cycle perfume off the old Johnson outboard...

Edited February 1, 2016 by RebelSS

[Coffee118]

Yes the smell of hoppe's takes me back to before I started to hunt. The neighbor took us hunting but before he taught us to shoot we had to learn how to properly clean the guns ( his guns of course). We spent many Friday nights cleaning all his guns so we could go shooting on Saturday. The smell of the outboard means I'm out fishing and not working. Weird but love them both