"Scents That Attract"

[CHEROKEE COWBOY]

Are any of us who hunt whitetail convinced that the so-called
attractor scents really work, or do you believe perhaps that
much of the success in deer hunting is more luck, right place
at the right time?

Kindly,
Cherokee Cowboy

[GoodOlBoy]

I think attractors can work during the right time of the year (the rut), but I think coverups are probably as much or more important. I like the disks that are "fresh earth" scented. They litterally smell like fresh dirt.

GoodOlBoy

[wrenchman]

I beleave in natural cover sents i youse to take pine bows and stick them in a plastic bag with my hunting clothes

[buckhunter]

Gotta go with wrenchman. Doe is heat is pretty good but only for a week or so.

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Originally Posted by wrenchman

I beleave in natural cover sents i youse to take pine bows and stick them in a plastic bag with my hunting clothes

That's great and will work if you are hunting in an area that is heavy with pine trees, but what if you hunt multiple areas, and say you hunt an area that has no pines, such as marsh....will the 'foreign' smell spook the deer then?

I used to be a sucker for all those bottled scents, ect. One of our local outdoor TV personalities did a bunch of tests and actually had a deer come up and sniff an area where he had poured out a bottle of cheap aftershave lotion.
After that, I tried a little experiment of my own and mixed up a concoction of human urine, vanilla extract, mineral oil, and a couple of other odds & ends (don't remember what, exactly), and then left a drag trail using a small rag soaked in the stuff. I walked about 150 yards dragging that trail, and shortly after I stopped and put up my tree seat, a small forkhorn buck was coming in, nose down right on the trail that I had laid down. (I missed him, BTW....I was bowhunting and it was the first deer I shot at with a bow).
I don't bother with any of that stuff anymore......I just make sure and wash my clothes in baking soda and try and keep foreign smells (such as gasoline and aftershave) off my person while hunting.

[Jack]

I know that a huge number of bottles of various brands of doe in heat urine are sold every year.
I've often wondered where the herd of thousands of does in heat is, that that urine is collected from and just how it's collected. . .

[skeet]

I don't know about doe in heat..but I got some kinda scent that attracts skeeters... Probly called Mo in heet

[wrenchman]

It dont have to be pine it can be clean dirt or leaves i dont youse it to atract just as a cover.
you can also hang your hunting cloths out side for a couple days my thing is i am just trying to get rid of any human typ smell like cooking smell like 16 said.
I have used doe in heat on mock scrapes and had bucks check the scrape but you dont have to use doe in heat you can take a spray bottle with a little amonia and spray it in the scrape.
Buy the way was that guy fred troast he was the one that ws talking about the amonia trick.
I do miss his shows he was on for many years.

[Mr. 16 gauge]

It dont have to be pine it can be clean dirt or leaves i dont youse it to atract just as a cover.

I understand that....I've often used local vegetation as cover scent; what I'm wondering is if you introduced a smell that a deer isn't used to (as a cover scent), would it frighten the deer or make it more wary? For example, I hunt mostly in marshy areas.....not a pine tree to be found for miles. So if I use a pine scented cover scent, will the deer see it as something suspicious?

Buy the way was that guy fred troast he was the one that ws talking about the amonia trick.

Yep...it was Fred Trost, and I also watched and enjoyed his show for a number of years. I felt kinda bad when the lawsuit decision was handed down; I don't think he got justice....he was exposing a sham and false advertising, and he got bankrupted for it.
....I haven't bought another buckstop product since.

...a lot of people seemed to enjoy "Fred bashing", esp. once the web became popular.....lot of 'sportsmen' out there seem to enjoy kicking one of their own, esp. when their down.

May he rest in peace.......