Taz, I agree with you, but tampons are better. Even got a string to hang them up with

I' ve heard tampons work.I know guys who swear by them.It makes sense that they might work.My wife who is now my ex said NO WAY!I had a girl I use to work with offer me one of her' s but she was butt ugly so I said no thanks!My grandfather would use fennel seed,vanilla and black licorice.I remember my dad notching his slugs like Taz mentioned.

My grandfather used to have what he called " his secret recipe" for deer attractant. He' d put a little vanilla into a table spoon of peanut butter and smear it on a branch near his stand. I' ve never tried it but if he swore by it I' d have to believe him since he hunted all year round to put food on the table.

He would also take a sweaty dirty shirt and leave it in his stand so the deer would get used to his scent being around.

I read a story about a hunter using a tripod stand, and the deer would step out and look at the stand and always stay just out of range. He put a dummy in camo, in the stand, and set up on the ground near the trail. The deer came out to look at the dummy and got caught by the hunter. I think it was in Texas.
I have heard of using dirty socks to make the deer use a different trail.

I remember reading an article where a guy got permission to hunt this ground that had this really thick swamp, where you couldn' t even see far enough to hang a stand in. All the deer were nocturnal and he wasn' t allowed to bring anyone else on to hunt. Well, he went to a flea market one day and found a bunch of wind-up alarm clocks and he made a bid on the whole lot and got them. Went out the night before and strung them up, in several rows throughout the thicket. Next morning, when it was full light, the furthest row of alarm clocks went off. Five minutes later, the next row, then the next row... He ended up having a lot of deer sneak out past him.

That has to be one of the most inventive ways of driving deer I have ever heard of!!!!

I used to hunt in an area where there aren' t any kind of apple trees or fruit trees other than persimmons. My father always told me to take an apple or two and throw it down in front of the deer stand to attract the deer.

I don' t really think it worked, never saw a deer when I used apples. I don' t think the deer could identify with the apple even if it could smell it.

Thunder