I have used them and the first time I put on up back when I was in high school, I went after school and put it up and was not going to hunt out of it until that weekend but while I was sitting admireing my work four does walked by. I could not believe it, I had stuff laying all over the ground and I was just sitting resting and they walked by. Since then I have used them though not as much because I got a climbing stand but I do not think that whitetails pay them any mind.