Scent Drags
 

Anyone had any luck with them what scents do you use most of the time?

I have been using them for the past 6-7 years, and have NEVER had a deer come into my set following one. I am seriously thinking about never using scents again.

My very first buck with a bow came in on a Tinks69 trail.
I had a couple here and there, nothing worth noting.
This morning I had a coyote follow a HS Dominant buck trail past my stand, missed a 20 yard broadside shot :o
Sad thing is when he bolted through the thicket, he took some deer with him.

In 40 years of hunting I have had one doe follow a scent trail.But I have had countless dogs and coyotes follow my trail after using some type of scent.

I make my drag rag using pee from deer that I have killed. Not sure how well it works, but figure it does not hurt. I have done this for 40-45 years. Have had at least one extremely fine buck come in trailing the drag. Also have had a bobcat trail my drag all the way t the very bottom of my ladder stand. That was cool.

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I have had Tinks 69 trails followed several times. I used to apply it at the truck and leave a trail all the way to the stand. I quickly changed this up when I had a buck cross my trail and follow it back towards the truck :(

I once had a decent buck chasing a doe stop when he got downwind of my Tink's bomb. The doe walked off and he hung out within bow range for a couple minutes sniffing the Tink's. I couldn't believe that he let the doe leave!

Just this morning I had a basket rack cut my Tink's trail that I laid down around my stand. He came in to 10 yards and stood there for several minutes sniffing the scent bomb. The only problem was that it was still too dark to shoot. Oh well.

I won't soon give up on the scents!

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Trails end in the early season has brought 'em in a few times, and Pete Rickards indian buck lure the rest of the season works pretty good for me.

i have used them some. neer had any luck with them. i am not a big fan of scents so i stay away 90% of the time

I have used Buck Stop 200 Proof for years on a drag string with occasional success. Probably at least a dozen times in 40+ years of hunting (although we didn't have scents when I first started hunting) I have had small buck follow my line in. And many times does were curious about the scent and would likewise follow it for a while. I have never had a 2 1/2 year old or older follow the line though. This year I gave up on scents entirely. They just seem to have no affect on luring in the type of buck I am looking for and are simply not cost effective for me.

I never saw much sense to using a drag.The deer is more likely to go the opposite way since that's the direction which the scent is strongest.

I have thought about that too. But why not wait 'till you get to a shooting lane near your stand/blind, put on the drag there, and then walk about 100 yards or so upwind? Or, if you're afraid you'll bust some deer doing that, you could just walk into your site the way that makes most sense and "freshen up", lol, the drag every 25-50 yards.

I've thought of that myself. But if the scent dissipates the longer it's on the ground, it's actually going to be strongest in the last place it was.

I personally haven't had one work, but then I don't see too many bucks around because they tend to flee the deerdogs first. My worst fear is having something get on the trail as I'm laying it in the dark walking to my stand. A coyote, bobcat or big buck thinking I'm a doe in estrous just doesn't seem like an enjoyable experience at Dark-Thirty on the morning.

Ha. I carry a handgun when I hunt, including archery season, which is legal in VA. Of course, I'm not sure any game warden would believe a story about being attacked if you showed up with a big buck killed with a handgun during archer season.

Anyway, I'll probably use a drag line this weekend for the first time. I was going to use one last Friday during my P.M. hunt but I shot a buck during the A.M. and called it a day.