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Old 08-07-2008 | 12:36 AM
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StrutNtom
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Default RE: Hunting with scent

I've used sexual scents in the past with little luck. I did kill a young buck one year using Tinks, but I think he would have be courious of the smell if I would have crapped in a bucket.

However...

I do use food scent and it works big time. I don't use any commerical scents or that spray stuff you can buy in bottles. I use extracts. They are far more expensive though.

Last year I met a guy who let me in on a "secret" of his. A company that makes pure white oak extract. It is hands down the best thing I've ever seen. I put an oz or so in the little scent whicks and hang them at different distances from my stand.

The only down side of this stuff is that sometimes its just too good. If the wind shifts I try to climb down and move the them because if I don't I will have deer coming down wind of me and I will get busted.

Last season I had does come in with their noses up and licking the air just like bucks do. The would walk right up to the whick and start licking it. There again, sometimes it just worked too well because I would have five or six does come into it at one time. Thats a LOT of eye balls watching you.

If you try extracts just be careful of what you buy. Because of the cost of making them most are cut with something. Most are cut with water, oil, or alcohol. The ones with water and oil are the best. STAY AWAY from the ones cut with alcohol.
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