This is my second post concerning the use of scents. The feeling I got is for the most part you guys don't use doe in heat and things like that. I hunt thickly wooded places without much agricultural. Tough places to pattern deer and on more than a handful ofoccassions I have deer come in on laid down scent trails. I have had deer stick their nose in a bottle of James Valley left open at 20 yards. Do you not use them because you know the patterns of the deer you hunt or just think they don't work? Plus, I like the smell of all that stuff from doe pee to earth scent. Sometimes i cover myself in doe pee and frolic thru the woods. Has not worked yet.Not sure about early season here in MA cause it don't even open till 10/16/ . What a drag or lack of. >>>>>Whack!

In the past years i have used Tinks 69 and Wildlife Golden Esterus. I quit when i found out they use roughly one drop of Doe p to a bottle. Really cost way to much. I don't pattern deers as they always cross on place but don't bed up on it. So i trail watch and take my deers like that. I never got my money's worth out of the scents. Plus i just can't afford them no better than they actually work. I saw over 40 deers on place in less than 60 days that i hunted only a few hours in the morning when i could.

The scents work! I have used them in the past. The last time I used them was when it worked on me! I must have got some on me and one night on the way out of stand I had a little eight point fallow me out of the woods! I assume I must have got some on me or he was smelling what was on the bottle. But I could only get him to stop when I would put the flashlight on him and then after a few more yards he was back on trail again. I have to walk about half a mile to get to stand and that deer got about sixty yards behind me by the time I got to truck! I also feel that a good scent is something you can wear a hole in real quick if not careful. Bucks are not dumb, and if they smell the same sex to much with no results they can pattern that stuff IMO. Last year I bought a ready doe decoy, but as the scents I think I used it to soon and the deer were wise to it by the time rut came in. Now It is packed up and I plan on only using it a few times, when I think them big guys are running low on brain blood if ya know what I mean! I also want to use it at the end of a scent trail. I will also say though that I hunt a lot like mike. I have a good funnel that is in between the beds and food/water so I can do a lot of my hunting that way.

Well, the pic I posted of the big buck I took on Friday Sept. 29th got de-posted somehow, but the week before, Sept. 22th., the same exact buck came into my stand area with 9 other bucks. I don't use scents but elected to use Tink's Doe Pee just this one time to see if it would bring bucks in. All the bucks came in UPWIND of the scent as the wind was blowing hard that day. They didn't smell it until about 20 feet from bait. Each buck sniffed, backed up three steps and briskly walked back into the thicket, not to be seen no more that day. I threw away the Tink's doe pee when I climbed down and I'll not use any scent any more. The following Friday afternoon, Sept 29th, Big boy came in with 5 other bucks and this time, no scent to spook him, and Whack! I got him. Soooo. He11 NO, I ain't using no stinking scent to hunt bucks here in N.C. I'm not saying they don't work for all people, just saying, I either don't know how to use them correctly or my bucks don't like them in my area. Also I think I used scent way to early in the season. Anyway, I almost screwed up a good hunt with it. LOL.
BBO