Originally Posted by
Mojotex
Save the vanilla for making homemade ice cream. Been there, done that ..... waste. This was a rage among a handful of guys at our hunting club 25 years or so ago. I tried it too .. a couple of times. After a couple of seasons we collectively quit .... none of them saw any reaction by deer in the area ... adverse or favorable to vanilla as a cover or attractant. We probably moved on to some other useless scent gimmick !!!
Yeah years ago vanilla scents were the rage, was it dan fitzgerald that put out "vanilla killa"? They are what i call "curiosity scents" i dont think deer know wth it is so they might follow it some, does especially. If thats what you want then it probably is worth trying a time or two. But in nearly 30 yrs of deer hunting i feel confident in saying that mature bucks ARENT curious animals! If they cross a path of un-natural scent 99% of the time they will turn around and retreat! They just dont play those games or take chances!!!
Thus the saying, "hunt either does/ young bucks or trophies, rarely will the same work for all"
HL