It really doesn't make since . H e say it works and you say it doesn't .How can that be, do you both hunt the same woods .I can see it might not work in one woods but work in another deer are funny animals maybe where he hunts the deer are more curious than the deer your hunting in a different woods.Myself I like to use doe-in-heat during the pre-rut put a drag line out heading to your stand then put it down wind on a branch about 20 yards out .