RE: what are some home made sents to atract deer.
I like to use molasas and peanut butter, I will smear the peanut butter all up and down on the tree and find a stump and pour the molasas on it and it has been Chowed with in a few days and the tree licked clean !!
also I have taken a few boxes of brown sugar open teh bag so it gets Hard and scrap up a hole big enough to place a block of sugar in it and then pour Real vanilla on it and again it has never lasted more than 4 5 days at best. we put camera's on these spots to see if it was deer and it was, not to mention its way cheaper than any of that store bought stuff you can buy, besides most of that stuff smells like sugar and vanilla & molassas anyway so thast how I got the idea and tried it. worked great for me.
Good Luck