Scent

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Originally Posted by js4fn

I say BS to all of that I smoke fart wear lucky pair of black pants with three other deers blood on them next to no camo
I had three deer come out tonight where we recovered the doe on Monday night. One work d her way eating brush leaves right where doe ran into bush blood trail started there Another worked her way to my range targets 6 red dongs hanging big 3x3’ bullseye target 5 gallon pails

79yd from my blind I had to make noise spook them away to exit blind

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Originally Posted by Sam Menard

Your scent will linger for days however the strength/freshness dissipates after a few hours. It’s the concentration of your scent, and the deer’s tolerance to it, that will determine if a deer gets frightened off or not.

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Exactly! Down here in farm country in the SW, or NW for that matter, deer smell human scent all the time. It’s the strength or concentration that alerts them. I’ve had deer follow me into my stand, walking through cut corn with heavy frost, hardly quiet, and certainly laying down scent. I do use scent killers and lay down doe scent as well on my way in.
Some of the best luck I’ve had in past years is using pure vanilla as cover scent.

I just play the wind. Can't be bothered to do any more. Almost never use a blind just hunt on the ground using natural cover and play the wind. Since they started selling additional tags 20 years ago i have averaged 3.4 deer per year and never less than 2 in any season since than. So seems to work. All shapes and sizes from fawn to my PB 160 inch buck. Vast majority of those deer were inside 25 yards as well. Also almost always smoke a cigar while hunting as well.

I drove myself mad with scent control for a couple years. Thought it can't hurt my chances, then over time and journaling all my sits, realized deer would come in from down wind sometimes, and blow once they were upwind. The winds swirls so much in the woods.

Then what really tipped the scales for me was last year I put out about 100lbs of cubed alfalfa and had a coyote bed down in it one day from about 9am to 3 in the afternoon, a couple hours later had deer on the trail camera.

Now I play the wind as much as I can, and just try not to introduce any smells they might deem out of the ordinary. There's lots of human traffic through the woods I hunt year round, so I've relaxed my scent control measures.

I have noticed that in the big hardwood's where I hunt the wind seems to swirl all over the place. My best stand is in the south east corner of an old field area which happens to be near my front gate and the roadway.But the stand gives a full view west and north for safe shooting,with the roadway being off to my right side some 60 yards.The only wind direction that is very much against me would be a south wind,this year I located a second stand to switch to should that wind come up.

I generally have some paper towel in my pocket,roll a piece up like a cigarette and light it,snub it out and check the smoke direction, always pretty accurate,but the wind at times will always swirl and you need to hope for the best.

I’m trying new spot tonight. Deer haven’t adjusted to time change. So I’m in the bush about 30 yd from lake bank had big roast beef lunch sound of the lake I’m going to fall asleep l
Think I have comerants different sounding bird anyway can’t see them
This is a great gun local. Not great for crossbow Buddy in a good location see what happens

Seen 7 one being a buck out of crossbow range. Muzzle loader next week
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He would have been down

Watched a fawn last week catch my wind 5 times in 3 hours. Each time it would just run about 50 yards then stop and listen, Then come back and continue browsing until it got my wind again. It was at 10 yards looking at me the last time before I finally stood up and chased it off. (Thought I'd try to smarten it up a bit)

Next day a 8 pointer walks same trail, Same wind direction. He stops, nose up, spins around on a dime and hops back in the bush and gone. No snort, Nothing.

If that was a doe she would likely blow a few times as she's running away. Bucks just turn and leave no warning for others.


Shot my 8 point wearing my dirty old farm coveralls as I do barn chores each day since my dad is up north deer hunting.



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Guys have mentioned doe urine. I tried Tinks 69 and I found it ineffective. I had my target buck wander a 60-80 yard perimeter in deep swamp around the Tinks. I think the synthetic urine identified my hunting zone. As far as I'm concerned the experiment is over. What do guys use on their boots to lay down a doe urine trail.

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Originally Posted by DanO

Guys have mentioned doe urine. I tried Tinks 69 and I found it ineffective. I had my target buck wander a 60-80 yard perimeter in deep swamp around the Tinks. I think the synthetic urine identified my hunting zone. As far as I'm concerned the experiment is over. What do guys use on their boots to lay down a doe urine trail.

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i think it really depends on where you are. i ruined a spot last year because of the doe piss and am scared to do it again. also shot my first buck with a tinks bear stick so not sure what works and doesnt with scent.

I’ve tinkered with commercial scents on and off for over 35 years. I’ve used Buck Stop, Tinks, Smoking Sticks, Buck Bomb, and countless other products. I even tried ammonia and human urine as they are ingredients in some scents. I also used to tie the tarsal glands of harvested bucks to my boots. Bottom line is that I’ve never had consistent results with anything so I quit using them. Buck behaviour can vary and can also be contradictory from one day to the next. They can be extremely curious and easily fooled, or can be extremely wary and cautious. The fact that they are unpredictable makes them challenging and fun to hunt.