I am curious to see how many of you have actually had success while using estrous scents? If so what brand of scent did you use and what happened? DId you have the scent in central location or did you use a trail drag? The reason why I ask is because I have used many different brands of estrous scent over the years and have never had a buck come into it or even notice it was there. The one thing it did do was cost me one nice P&Y buck. I had a scent wick out with James Valley estrous lure on it when a group of does came by downwind of the scent wick with a nice P&Y 10-pointer hot on their trail. Well to say the least the does did not like the estrous scent. The 1 old mature doe start snorting like crazy at the scent wick. The 10 pointer was love struck so even though the doe was snorting he kept coming. However the doe would not come past the scent wick and turned and ran the other way taking the big 10 pointer with her. That was 2 years ago and to this day I have not used any other type of scent other than cover scent. I was just curious to see what kind of success you guys have saw from estrous scent.

two years ago I used a drag rag covered with tinks 69 during mid november for a morning hunt. After grunting in a 10 pt P&Y buck, he got the the scent trail and offered a perfect shot. Last week I hung some knight and hale Estrus scent in a scent bomb over a mock scrape. I had two bucks come in down wind of the scent, and stand next to it and enjoy it for several minutes before walking back into the woods. I am not always convinced that it is effective but have had friends have occassional success with scent as well so I feel compelled to pay the $6/oz to buy urine each fall. Seems like a rediculous waste of money but if it gives you some confidence, it will help you sit in the stand longer and that can' t hurt.

$6.00 a ounce? wow! I just bought a quart (36 oz) of " fresh" doe estreus urine from a $30. That' s 83 cents per ounce and it was shipped next day from a deer farm in PA. This is not the stuff that sits on the shelf at walmart. Going to try it out this weekend and see what happens

Not a significant amount of times though it has happened on occasion. I think there are too many factors in my neck of the woods (other hunters, unhunted private land, etc...) that make it difficult to trully gauge the effectiveness of that type of deer lure during the rut.

i use regular doe pee as a cover scent but have had more deer scared away from estrus even during the rut.young bucks seem more curious and will investigate but i think big bucks look for the doe when they smell the scent and when they don' t see her they move on.i am sure there are probably more success stories than not or so much of it would not be sold.

It has hurt me more times than it has helped. Mature does don' t seem to like it and will have a fit if they get a good whiff. I have had smaller bucks get curious about it but they never came in at a trot. I use it as a cover and trail scent. I place a couple drops on the tops of my boots and it drips off or leaves and grass pull it off as I walk. This might draw the attention of a buck that crosses my trail. I no longer place scent wicks or bombs near my stand. Would rather have the live doe decoys around than a scent bomb. Some of my friends are good hunters and they don' t use it at all any more.

Last year a small buck came in on the scent stream (Golden Estrus) from a canister while my cousin and I were eating a sandwich. Came within 10 yards. Saturday I had a six-point come into the same set-up. Offered a broadside at 15 yards. He' s in the freezer.

I have used estrous scent successfully for years. Just this year I switched to Rush Creek lure and have had several small to medium bucks come right in. (Waitin for the biggun). Does sometime react in an alarmed fasion but I dont really care if the does dont offer a shot as I dont shoot them anyway. I had a buck wed. eve follow the drag rag trail in and went to my cotton soaked pill bottle and sniff it. It knocked it off the stump and then began to sniff it pushing it around in the leaves.
As far as bigger bucks being brought in...yes it does work. Several times. The only bucks I have ever seen alarmed by the lure were all small spikes.

It would be interesting to see someone put a test together with different scents and set up trail cams on them to see what actually does and does not attract the big boys during the pre/post and rut???

Yep, it does work. Last year during gun season, a buddy used some Tink' s 69 on a drag rag. He was hunting one area, and after not seeing anything but Elk (didn' t have an elk tag) he decided to change locations and walked right past our truck to a different area. Myself and the other two guys (his father and brother) shot a 4 pt, an 8pt, and a 9pt earlier that morning and he was the only one left that hadn' t shot one. We dragged our deer back to the truck and was eating lunch and just talking when a NICE 8 pointer shows up. I mean litterally pops up 10 yards from us!!!! And I was outside the truck smoking a cigarette talking to the other two. The wind was in our faces, and he' s sniffing the air trying to figure out who or what we are. We even had 3 dead deer laying there by the truck. He looks us over (we' re looking him over) and then he just casually wanders back the way he' d came, following the scent trail. You should have seen the look on my buddy' s face when he got back to the truck and we told him about it.

So, it worked for us, but not for him. LOL