What's the best way to lure in not so dominant bucks and lots of does?
07-27-2008, 10:56 AM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Clifton Park New York USA
Posts: 367
RE: What's the best way to lure in not so dominant bucks and lots of does?
Here's a thought. Deer are naturally curious, right? My idea, and I haven't tried this yet, would be to get a scented candle of a scent that the deer you're after wouldn't normally smell. Make very sure that the area around where the candle is going to be placed is clear of flammable material. Then, light the candle, putting some sort of ceramic shade over it to keep the wind from blowing it out. Wait.
I know exactly where I'm going to do this, on the property that the hunting camp I belong to is on. New York's early bow season, in the Northern Zone if you didn't get a deer by bow last year, starts September 27th. If I actually go the 115 miles one-way to the camp and do this (at 35+ mpg in my car), I'll let you know how it turns out.
It's a crazy idea, but just crazy enough to succeed. In my deer management unit in the NZ, NYS allowseither a buck or doe for bowhunters.
Yeah,I have zero idea which I'm going to lure in with this (buck or doe), but the bucks will be in pre-hiding mode, so I just may be able topull it off.
I know exactly where I'm going to do this, on the property that the hunting camp I belong to is on. New York's early bow season, in the Northern Zone if you didn't get a deer by bow last year, starts September 27th. If I actually go the 115 miles one-way to the camp and do this (at 35+ mpg in my car), I'll let you know how it turns out.
It's a crazy idea, but just crazy enough to succeed. In my deer management unit in the NZ, NYS allowseither a buck or doe for bowhunters.
Yeah,I have zero idea which I'm going to lure in with this (buck or doe), but the bucks will be in pre-hiding mode, so I just may be able topull it off.
07-28-2008, 06:24 AM
#13
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Phila.Pa.
Posts: 60
RE: What's the best way to lure in not so dominant bucks and lots of does?
ORIGINAL: Muddyemms
Make very sure that the area around where the candle is going to be placed is clear of flammable material. Then, light the candle, putting some sort of ceramic shade over it to keep the wind from blowing it out. Wait.
Make very sure that the area around where the candle is going to be placed is clear of flammable material. Then, light the candle, putting some sort of ceramic shade over it to keep the wind from blowing it out. Wait.
07-28-2008, 07:25 AM
#14
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 159
RE: What's the best way to lure in not so dominant bucks and lots of does?
Seems the answers have been given. I find that scouting is the key, but I know most hunters don't have the time to glass an area all summer long, or go tracking through the woods in the spring for travel routes, rubs etc. Try obtaining a TOPO and arielmap online, look for funnels, pinch points, ridge lines/benches etc. This way you can hi-tech scout at home on the computer. For me, I have a few food plots and they always have small bucks and does in them during hunting hours, for the mature guys, Ineed to be back in the woods at these locations I mentioned above or 50 or so yards back in the woods off the foodplots.
As they say, being at the right place at the right time! Some hunting videos don't always tell you that they where in the stand for a week before Mr. Big came along!
Good Luck!
As they say, being at the right place at the right time! Some hunting videos don't always tell you that they where in the stand for a week before Mr. Big came along!
Good Luck!
