Scents to use for the first few weeks of archery?
 

I will be hunting in PA during archery, season starts early october or late september, what do you guys use as far as scents to attract deer in you area? I used to use this one deer-farmers pre-rut scent but I really havent had much luck with it.

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I use tinks no. 1 doe pee and tinks buck pee. The back of the tink's package recommends using the smoking sticks, but I haven't heard anything good or bad about them.

I hope this helps.

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I've tried just about everything without any positive results.

I would suggest just trying to stay scent free and forget about attracting scents

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I agree with Double Creek, using scents the begining or early season is really a waist of money but if you must, use a buck scent coupled with some like calling..it's better to go as scentless as possible and set up on travel routes to and from feeding/bedding areas....but that means preseason scouting.

PS, PA's season starts Oct 2nd so your legal.

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if ur looking to take a doe usually a doe bleet works real good early season cause fawns are still with there mothers...

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Pa hunter here....never found any scents to work in early season. even tried using pure vanilla as an attractant for shooting does, never worked though. stay scent free and be a big "bump on the log" untill the last 2 weeks, then use the estrous pee, estrous bleat and grunt call, works like a charm on the love sick bucks! ;)

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PS, PA's season starts Oct 2nd so your legal.
Yea, I did not know the exact date yet, b/c I have been really late in getting my license do to the fact that I am broke and need an out of state license since I moved to Jersey two years ago.

I have always had great success in the late season ranging from 1-5 buck in the morning sit and really dont see much in the afternoon. I have been using plenty of scent-free stuff since I have started archery and I remember my first year getting to see a fawn come through, but it is rare for me to see anything the first few weeks.

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apples or peanutbutter if its legal where you hunt

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I doubt if the rut scents would work this early. Have you tried any curiosity scents? Something that smells like acorns or corn or some other food source.

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Like the others said: BE SCENT FREE. Do not alert the deer that something has changed. If you must use something, go with regular doe pee (non-estrous).

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If you want to try an early season scent yu may want to consider Buck Fever synthetics. The pre/post rut is designed as a curiosity scent. You can make mock scrapes or freshen last years scrapes. Deer will use these "scent post" all year long although the most obvious sign of use is durring the rut.

If you're interested is some interesting reading check this out.
http://www.hawgslimited.com/bestresults/
Take it with a grain of salt because they are obviously trying to sell a product but from my experience with their products they are pretty straight shooting.

Good luck.

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I would just try to stay as scent free as possible.

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I use the Buck Fever Synthetic scents and they work great for mock scrapes, I started mine a few weeks ago and noticed today that they are really starting to hit them.

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like everyone else I haven't had much luck with pre rut scents stick to being scent free and maybe find a food scent that might help but don't use acorn scent if you hunt a apple orchard

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I burned quite a few sent sticks last year. I never saw anything the hunts I used them on.

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Ditto to all the replies that recommend trying to remain as scent free as possible. However, you won't be able to eliminate 'all' scent from you. For this reason you may want to use a cover scent such as fox or coon piss or whatever critters you see in your given hunting area. I am a fanatic to a point of trying to remain scent free: up an 1hr early to shower w/scent free soap; store clothes in scent loc container; change when I arrive at the hunt site, etc). However, after getting in my stand one morning I watched a red fox come in and cross the trail I had walked in on and turned and went back the other way. He was not spooked, but apparently just didn't like what he smelled. Have tried using doe & buck pee in the early season w/o any luck.....

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I tend to agree with the others to an extent but I believe we are all operating under one simple assumption....that scents are meant to attract the animal. In which case I totally agree with previous comments. I have yet to actually have an animal come into hunting range because of a scent that I had laid out.

However, I have used both straight doe urine (Tinks Doe-P for example) and Bob Kirchner's Curiousity lure at specific locations within my shooting range to get animals to either stop or just move into a potential shooting lane. I would recommend either for the early season.

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Lots of good answers here. You should always try and be scent free yourself, but as far as scents in the early season, I use straight doe P. No estrous stuff. It will serve a duel purpose of acting as a bit of a cover scent, and as mentioned above, it can get them to stop in a lane to shoot.