Deer scents

Fellers I don't want this to look like an add but I think this might help some of you deer hunting. I try to set up for reasonable ranges when deer hunting with handguns. Unless I am shooting one of the scoped rigs I like 40 yards or less. Bad eyes cant' be helped. I use Mrs Doe Pee fresh estrus urine. I get it from Sam and Judy Collora. It comes from their private deer heard. Does it work? Here is me dumping urine in front of a game camera and on some limbs right above the place I soaked on the ground. I refreshed this spot every 2 or 3 days. You can see what happened.

I like that last one, but did he show up in the day time. I get great shots of. Ucks at night, but never see them in the day so I quit using a game cam it just was frustrating to me.

Sex scents work pretty good in Alabama but seem to spook the heck of of them on the farm I lease Illinois. I will also hunt Kentucky this fall and the outfitter has already warned us that scents are not allowed. Hmmmm....

The trick to this stuff is that it is pure urine. No preservitives or filler. I have never seen a deer spook off of it. I have had does lick scent wicks that I had just sprayed. The only draw back is that you have to keep it in the refrigerator when not in use and freeze it for long term storage. I usauly buy 8oz bottles and keep a old nasel spray bottom that I have sterilized to transport it to the woods. I dump just what I need in the small bottle so that the big one stays cool.

Which end of bama are you on?
reflex264

Nope he is still running around. Killed several good ones since then though. reflex264

Real scents work, not the little bottles of junk you buy at Wall mart.
I bought real doe in estrus urine from Nacina in Ohio.
The only other stuff that worked was Deer Coy made by Jon-E hand warmer company.

I like the smell of bacon and sourdough hotcakes.

I swear an old gentlemen who hunted on part of my property for years before passing away would drench himself in Aqua-Velva after shave before each hunt and usually killed more good bucks than anyone else in the club. He also would get up at the camp before everyone else and cook breakfast for everyone, do his business and then an hour after daylight ease down the road that everyone had just gone to their stands on--with the Aqua-Velva wreaking--and lean against a tree watching the same old mudhole on the road, and see or kill deer.
I miss Mr. Norman Hutchinson alot, and I think about every time I see a bottle of Aqua-Velva.

West Alabama, just south of TTown.

Note to self.... Aqua Velva at mock scrape....

I remember reading a Southern Outdoors years ago about a gent that used Brute after shave the same way. Killed tons of deer. Just goes to show some deer have bad taste. ;-)

You guys crack me up.

As a young bow hunter, I used to drag a string with a cotton ball that was dipped in fox urine behind me to cover up my sent before heading into the woods. Two or three days before a hunt, I'd also wash my hunting cloths (underwear also) without detergent of any kind and after drying them, place them into a plastic bag with freshly broken pine needles and tie the bag shut. I would'nt put these cloths on until just before it was time to walk into the woods. Once I arrived at my destination, I'd place a little deer scent on a couple cotton balls and place them into the corner of a tree branch about 6 ft off the ground and 10 - 20 ft diagonally behind and on both sides of where I'd be sitting. After clearing away the leaves and twigs 5 ft around a pre-selected tree I'd be sitting under, I'd face myself downwind and practice the fine art of watching and waiting. I'd always see deer because I spent time studying the locals, but the scent (especially getting rid of the human kind) seemed to draw in the bigger bucks that I never knew were even around. I would also always remember to pick up the spent cotton balls before leaving the woods. I believe that placing good fresh quality scent was the key ingredient for me.

My wife thought I was completely nuts (the pine needles did it I think), but if you've done something similar, you know as well as I do that it really does bring the deer in close.

My goal is tranfer these same skills and successful kills over to the handgun hunting arena during this falls deer season.

My wife thought I was nuts when she went with me to take down some stands and tampons were hanging on limbs close to my stands. Answered her question about where the tampons were disappearing to...(G)

one morning hustling to get to my stand, I forgot to empty my bladder safely distant from my tree stand and realized my mistake when I was too close to turn back, the dilemma being two fresh trails if I left and returned late, so
i dropped a pond write there wreaking of coffee and me, and went to my stand shortly there after a doe came down the trail, and wouldn't cross, but walked parallel to the trail, till she came to the "pond" where she stopped, then promptly huped up and peed. durng the day three more deer did the same, including a young buck that busied himself making a scrape nearby. Go figure. .

I guess the deer didn't get the memo that they were supposed to bolt...LOL

The last time I used a deer scent I was ending the hunt from a tree stand. It was getting too dark too see well and I decided to call it quits. I noticed some movement off to my right. As it got closer I wouldn't dare bat an eye until it got to the base of my stand and looked up. I had never seen a bobcat in the wild and it was looking for a meal, until it saw me. Something I wish I could experience again. That's one of the great things about hunting. You don't have to make a kill to enjoy the experience. Plus, you never know what is going to happen.

I have mixed views on using scents and lures. A good friend of mine consistently kills deer each year in the Ocean State. We get a lot of hunting pressure. He has observed deer most of his life and fills multiple tags. We chatted on the issue of lures and scents and he told me, don't bother. It will actually scare bucks off because they know the smell of every doe in their travels. Anything strange will throw them off.

I am becoming a believer in that. The best method is to play the wind. Try to leave as little scent as possible and put your time in.

My best success has been using a scent killer spray and wearing fresh earth wafers. The deer appear relaxed no matter how close they are. I stopped using lures years ago and kill more deer now just smelling like the woods.

I have mixed opinions on leaving scent attractants also. I think using a brand like Mrs. Doe Pees ( I have some in my freezer as we speak) is a step in the right direction though. The bucks in your pics definitely liked it! Cool photos, thanks for sharing!

I've had success with Tinks 69 in Nebraska. I've drawn in both does and bucks with it. I do wash my clothes with scent killers, and shower with the matching scent free soap before going out in the mornings. I'll often make a scent drag to draw the critters out in the mornings, and bring them in to me as soon as it starts to warm up.

My dad always put pure vanilla on our pant legs, ever since I've used it as a cover sent and have had good results. It even works as a good curiosity scent if put up on a wick. I once tried a knock off of deer herd in a stick and had every doe and one buck walk in where I did just to get behind a tree where I couldn't get a shot, was impressed and still haven't had problems with them smelling where I walk but sometimes it makes them curious as to who the new deer is in the area, its how I shot my doe with a recurve last season. I still get nervous when they walk the odd path that takes them over my path in though.

Vanilla extract = acorn scent.