I suppoes I qualiy for an Old Timer since I will be 74 in October. But, I still hunt the big hogs in the river swamps. Many of the scents that you can buy are strange to Florida deer...and turn then off big time! Natural scents like pine (or turpentine and wood smoke) or natural F;orida scents. You can but turpentine in bottles....works good also for redbugs. High scents like most soaps, shaving lotions, hair tonic are bad. If yoy camp, throw a piece of fat wood on the fire and smoke your clothes. WE you start to walk in, wipe some turpentine of you boots and legs. Keep it simple! Peanut butter smeared on the trees around your stand is good. Make up some cotton balls with pure vanilla (not the artificial) and drop a couple around your stand or on the ground out from your ground blind. Keep the cotton balls in a ziplock bag. Watch your wind. In the morning, as the woods heat up, scent rises uphill and in the evening scent goes down hill. That's why it's better to hunt the bottoms in themoring. These thoughts are simple! Find the food! Water oak acorns,although not the deer's favorite, last longer on the ground....late season hunting. Live oak, scrub oaks, and bush acorns rot fast and are good for early season. Forget the Florida browse...it's tough by Fall. Watch for wildfriuts, except citus. Grapes are good for Bow hunting amd maybe MLing time. Sign in late Summer only means there were deer there in late Summer....again, Feed the food! Go deep in the blocks!
Just sime thoughts!.....Regards, James @ Dixie Slugs