I' m also not really sold on store bought scents but there are alternatives. I will go to a friends deer cooler and cut the tarsal glands off a buck and hang it down wind of my stand have had bucks circle around to try to get downwind of it. As for calls I haven' t had much luck blind calling here in georgia but have turned a few bucks that were going away from me to bring them back and wont go in the woods without a grunt tube