last year at the starting of the season i forgot to wash my hunting close in just watter.instead i washed them in downy and it worked i saw so many bucks that day.i didnt know y but when i got home i smelled downy on my close.so i washed them in that the rest of the season and i saw at least 5 doe or 2 or 3 bucks each day

So what do you think they are smelling? I have a hard time swallowing that deer would be attracted to Downy just because it is Downy. They would have to be interpreting it as something else.

Did Snuggles the Downy bear help you pick your hunting spot?

Never heard of such a thing

Curiosity scent.

I know folks who use a drag rag covered in vanilla extract during the early season to bring in deer.

As long as they aren't feeling threatened by it or don't associate the scent with danger, they'll follow it.

I knew a guy who baited deer for a long time. Every time he went to bait the deer he would cover himself on Old Spice cologne. He would bait the deer all summer wearing this cologne. About a week before the season opened he would stop baiting the deer completely. Then opening day he would go sit in a stand over his old bait site, only he would throw out cotton balls covered in Old Spice. The deer associated the smell of the Old Spice with food, so when they smelled the cologne they came in for a snack.

Well Trigger... that's a new one to me. You don't suppose it has anything to do with the exploding deer herd in Alabama do you??? You sit on those clear cuts you'll see deer.[8D]