Curiousity Scents

reeler · Post by **reeler** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:50 pm

Bow season is fast approching is SW Ontario. Just wondering what everone is using to lure the deer to the stand PRE-RUT??
I know you don't want to use the traditional "Buck Lures" with doe esturs, etc... which will confuse and possibily spook them pre-season.
Are you using food scents? Maybe nothing at all???

VixChix · Post by **VixChix** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:39 pm

Don't laugh, but I've found is that they're attracted to my urine if I eat apples or drink apple juice. I used to make it a point to relieve myself a good distance away from my stand, but I noticed that deer would scrape where I went, so now I don't bother with the long walks.

crazyfarmer · Post by **crazyfarmer** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:16 pm

nothing at all;) I tried the vanilla a long time ago which brought deer in but it also tended to make them a little spooky. Thats fine a dandy for doe, but the bucks were always a little alert by it(mature ones espically).

But ive had best luck with nothing at all during the pre rut. Plus you dont spread your scent by applying the other scents out for the deer. The less a big buck notices different, the more likely he will walk right under you

wabi · Post by **wabi** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:28 pm

The biggest buck I've ever seen was trailing me like a hound when I had sprayed red fox urine on my leather boots before a hunt. I crossed an small field and sat down in a ditch line to have a smoke when he came trailing me across the field. He was so magnificant that I left him to pass on his genetic superiority to the next generation.

(the truth is that the arrow deflected off an unseen tree branch and went under his chest

)

As far as scents, I sometimes wonder what that deer's nose was telling him! A red fox wearing leather boots? Probably was a combination of scents that didn't belong together that had his curiosity aroused?

Today I try to leave as little scent as possible. I usually wear rubber boots. (although I'm not sure rubber is really that great - ever stop to think why every dog that smells a rubber tire has to leave his mark?)
I seldom use scents except for possibly setting up a mock scrape when that activity starts.

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:32 pm

i've found that just feeding them seems to keep them coming for me so far

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:46 pm

I always thought it would be a good idea to have like a small air gun or something like that to shoot sent balls from the stand without contaminating your spot.

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:49 pm

i'm not exactly sure how you would go about doing that sax but that sounds like a good idea have you ever tried it ?

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:19 pm

I have not.
I have good ideas sometimes but never act on them and then years later I'll see it and kick myself.

I had an idea a few years ago when I first saw a tablet computer about making one into a music stand and have all my music charts loaded to disck and read music from the computer screen.No more sheet music to carry arount,I could change pages with a foot switch.
Well,guess what,now they have it.

warningshot · Post by **warningshot** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:55 am

i try to be as sent free as possible....as i have had bucks come upwind of me and caught a wiff of them before i actually spotted them....i have used the ole apple cooker with good results as well

curmudgeon · Post by **curmudgeon** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:26 am

I have used the vanilla . I have also used Anise (smells like licorice) in the past, as a cover scent and a attractant. (grows wild around here).

sumner4991 · Post by **sumner4991** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:08 am

I think I saw scent pellets that you could shoot in a slingshot once you got in your stand. Or did I just dream that up? Seems like they even had human scent pellets to leave in areas that you were not hunting.

Isis · Post by **Isis** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:18 am

How about a paintball gun with scent balls?

ninepointer · Post by **ninepointer** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:47 am

crazyfarmer wrote:nothing at all;) I tried the vanilla a long time ago which brought deer in but it also tended to make them a little spooky. Thats fine a dandy for doe, but the bucks were always a little alert by it(mature ones espically).

Kinda reminds me of the time I dumped some apples in the late season in front of a stand that I had not previously baited. 3 deer came in up wind of me and down wind of the apples. Perfect..., or so I thought. When the deer hit that apple scent they locked up solid, went on high alert and would not come in another inch

ehntr · Post by **ehntr** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:48 pm

sumner4991 wrote:I think I saw scent pellets that you could shoot in a slingshot once you got in your stand. Or did I just dream that up? Seems like they even had human scent pellets to leave in areas that you were not hunting.

Seems like they even had human scent pellets to leave in areas that you were not hunting

Wow..that would cover a big area! Marketing to hunters is wonderful isn't it?

As for the sligshot thing.....haven't seen it but that is what came to mind....cotton balls soaked and weighed down with something else? Should be able to make some 20 yard shots. I normally don't use anything pre-rut.

crazyfarmer · Post by **crazyfarmer** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:59 pm

ninepoint, thats what I mean.. if mature bucks all of a sudden smell something thats not from their are they will definitly spook. I never really started seeing the bigger deer untill I stopped testing every brand of cover scent known to man. Now I just spray down with scent killer and dont bother calling or using any scents untill the rut is starting to kick off. For bow season I just rely on funnels and food