This'll be my first bowhunting season this year. ( I am normally waterfowling) I am getting all of my new gear ready. After reading a lot about scents I decided to go buy some. I will be hunting in the 3rd week of October in the Upper Penninsula of MI. (season opens Oct. 1) I would like your thoughts on how to use it - i.e. use scent bombs, drag it behind me, spray it on a tree, shoes, surround my stand w/ scent??????

I could use some advice

Thanks in advance

Yoopper Hunter

I don't think scents are a cure all for everyday use.

I only use them as a tool to address a specific problem if it seems useful. For instance if the deer I want is staying in impenatrable cover, I might try to use it in combination with other tactics to draw him out for a shot.

I only use it in combination with other tactics, deer don't normally just smell a doe. They also expect to hear or see something. Give them a combination to suggest what they expect to expirience and just like a hot teenager they will see what the want to find. Most times just a little flash of white, a rustle of leaves and a sniff, and a freight train couldn't stop him until he gets close enough to figure out something funny is going on.

For years I have used tinks 69 in conjuction with a buck grunt or doe bleet and thats all, I have used this simple method and have killed a 10 point buck and two non typical 8 points and 2 does. Seems its worked out fine for me. The best way to use tinks 69 is get a couple empty film canisters or empty medicine bottles, tie a piece of string about 18 inches in length around the bottle or cannister using a piece of tape to secure it to the conatiner this will leave a about a foot long tag end which you should loop the end so you can easily hang it from a tree limb inside the cannister or bottle put 2 or 3 cotton balls inside of it and poor enough tinks 69 so that the cotton balls are completely saturated and that there is no loose liquid in the container, a little is ok, now put the lid of the cannister or bottle on and now you have a no mess no spills and the greatest part you dont have to worry about getting urine on your hands. when you get out to the woods put 2 or 3 of these I call them scent bombs out hanging from trees about 3 or 4 feet from the ground set them out about 15 yards away from the tree you have your stand in or 15 yards away from your blind or where you are gonna be sitting if ground hunting remove the caps and you are ready to go just make sure all of them are in your line of sight I kinda think of it as catfishing you have a couple scent bombs to watch like having a couple lines to watch when fishing. My ten pointer I killed was during full rut I blew on my buck grunt and next i heard something running through the woods branches crunching twigs snapping lol nothing was getting in his way next about 40 yards infront of me he comes out of the woodwork hes sniffing the air I was darn it he smells me next he starts runnig towards my stand then stops just under one of my scent bombs he touches the scent bomb with his nose I wasted no time I stuck a arrow through him. he ran about 40 yards out of sight then i heard a crash of leaves smashing and twigs snapping then it was silent i knew he was down , I got down from my stand retrieved my arrow which was sticking straight up out of the ground where he was standing put it in my quiver and then located the buck it was the greatest My first buck ever and it was a perfect 10 point Missouri Whitetail with a 22 1/2 inch bread basket and 7 1/4 inch brow tines.

get some of their hanging wicks and hang at various distances from your stand. also makes good yardage markers

I know there are people that swear by Tinks69 but I have seen too many deer run from it after getting a wiff of it. I switched to Bob Krishner's Silver Top and I have deer walk up to the canister and lick the darn thing. Either way, use what you believe will give you and edge, what works for me may not be your choice of scents. Try them all and see what happens.

I don't bother with scents never have and never will.. wind direction and clean clothing are the only things I pay attention to.

Thats classic! I use tinks as well, and i have seen mainly does deter from it, 2drop supreme is great attracts all deer.

Hey guys if you want to save some money and great wick to boot....woman unscented tampons. I am not kidding work like a charm, comes with it's own build in hang system (string), wet swells up for max air flow(just be careful about sticking in bottle as it will also make a good cork!) and is biodegradeable (not that I suggest you ever leave garbage in the woods). I am not agreat believer in scents but do use them on occasion mostly when I rattle but believe me these little ponies work like a charm...best of all for me they're free (just sneak a few from the wifes supply...if you need lots plan ahead).

Best real scent I have used for doe estrus "Still Steamin'". I hear others rave about Code Blue scents as well. Stinks 69 no such luck though. I used Hawgs & they trashed a mock scape I made last fall, this is a synthetic. Never did take an animal with it but must have liked something about it as it did see action.

I will say the usage of scent is only good if you use all the other things in combination to be successful. No different than calling or rattling, you must account for wind direction and scout so you know what to expect and the best place to employ whateever technique or scent you choose to use. Equally like everything else it ain't 100% foolproof, sometimes works and other no way.

I put it on a sen bomb that came with my tinks and hang it on a tree limb

I would flush it down the toilet.