Help Please!
 

Looking to take my 7 year old son out in the field in the deer stand with me on Sunday when we can't hunt. I want to do it this way so if he can't sit out there and gets bored we can leave without having to worry about ruining anyone elses deer hunting. My question to you guys is what would be a good attractant to help encourage some deer to show so he gets to see them. Obviously a good corn pile but anything else you guys could recommend would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

the best attractant is to be where the deer want to be, tv shows and advertisements want you to think that what deer want can be bought in a bottle at the local sports store but the reality of it is you just cant beat what nature provides, the deer know where it is we just have to find it and the deer wont be far behind

I think you'll be hard-pressed to find an answer. If you check my thread titled Do You Know Of A Lure That Draws Deer In?, you will see there are 2 pages of replies and almost 300 views. With all that, I can recall only one person replying that he witnessed deer moving away from their regular path of travel, just to investigate the lure's source.

I wanted to know if people were using a product or products that moved deer away from what they were doing naturally, to come and make an alteration in their line of travel just to smell more of the lure.

So this sort of fits in with your question and as you can see, you're short on replies with several people reading the post. I had deer smell my lures and scents many times, but I was hunting in the deer's natural line of travel, so I can't say with any certainty that they wouldn't have gone their naturally already. Since I was on trails, the deer were already on it and traveling by and it was not the lure that brought them up a trail they were already going down.

I wish I could help you. Your curiosity is the $10,000 question...

"...what would be a good attractant to help encourage some deer to show..."

If you knew the answer to that, dear God my friend, people would be racing to your door with open wallets to learn that too. LOL!

Best of luck... and feel Blessed to have a son you can take out there and share life with. Good times!

iSnipe

one of my dads freinds used some trails end 307 and says it works( hes also says it smells like licorice)
ive also heard of guys using vanilla and peanut butter to draw deer in

There's a lure by Hunter's Specialties(PrimeTime) called Buck Lure Supreme 1. In one of his videos, Tom Miranda endorsed it, guess because he formulated it(LOL!), and showed how to use it with scent-wicks.

It smelled like black licorice too. LOL!

iSnipe

hmm deer seem to have a sweet tooth (but then again who doesnt:woot:) i also remember my grandpa tellin stories of back in the day he says every once in a while he would rub a little molasses on a tree

The problem I've seen with people using products, is that they can't reliable prove or know for sure if the product they use, in fact, really did draw the deer in. Who's to say they were already headed that way?

iSnipe

Apples work pretty good also

bow huntin or rifle huntin...what date ya goin?durin the rut? tree stand or box blind?

if ya got a helicopter you can fly over and take a look and have em drop ya off ....and then the heli can herd the deer to ya...jk mann..need a lil more info is all im sayin...everything matters...600 yrds it don matter....30 yards one dog hair can ruin ya..

if you are on an apple farm this can be true. deer take weeks to adjust to food change, so they aint gonna start that over 2 apples they find in a corn rich environment e.g iowa.or nebraska...
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you are absolutely right my dad's freind (the one using the licorice stuff) had deer come in to it but they were just passing through the area one buck he saw was walking by suddenly caught a whiff of his scent wicks and stopped dead in his tracks did a 360 and made a b line right for it the buck sniffed it licked it and then followed the scent drag my freind used right to the base of his treestand the scent didnt bring him into the area he was already there but it did pull him off his current route right to were my freind wanted him

just a thought if its close to the rut try a drag rag. its worked for me on occasion.

Not sure where you are located but If you just want to see deer up close, set up on the edge of a corn field on the ground. Make a ground blind out of branches and grass. I have actually hunted like this on windy days and have had deer, turkeys and pheasant within 5 feet of me. Use the wind to your advantage and have fun.

apples work well. what ive been doing is putting out corn, oats, apples and spreading some buck jam gel on top of it all. youd be suprised.

Buy a Fawn In Distress call and does will show up!

be careful, you don't want to put bait out and then go back there during hunting season and get in trouble

go where you see tracks, get him involved, sometimes not seeing a deer but looking in the woods, squirrels, turkey, maybe a red-tail hawk is even cooler...he will be hanging on everything you say anyway