Considering using VANILLA scent this year before the rut
Anyone try this? I've heard of it, but never tried it.
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I have heard if it i was thinking i would try it i got a great upwind stand to test it out.
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Save the vanilla for making homemade ice cream. Been there, done that ..... waste. This was a rage among a handful of guys at our hunting club 25 years or so ago. I tried it too .. a couple of times. After a couple of seasons we collectively quit .... none of them saw any reaction by deer in the area ... adverse or favorable to vanilla as a cover or attractant. We probably moved on to some other useless scent gimmick !!!
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I've used it here in CT on the shotgun hunt last year. Doe stopped brousing and came into the scented area and sniffed the vanilla extract soaked cotton ball just before I shot her.
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Originally Posted by Mojotex
(Post 3854149)
Save the vanilla for making homemade ice cream. Been there, done that ..... waste. This was a rage among a handful of guys at our hunting club 25 years or so ago. I tried it too .. a couple of times. After a couple of seasons we collectively quit .... none of them saw any reaction by deer in the area ... adverse or favorable to vanilla as a cover or attractant. We probably moved on to some other useless scent gimmick !!!
Thus the saying, "hunt either does/ young bucks or trophies, rarely will the same work for all" ;) HL |
I tried an Acorn Rage sent bomb last year which seems to have a sweet vanilla scent to it or something close and a doe got a little spooked by it and headed the wrong way. It was a young doe for what it is worth thats what I have observed using that product.
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Originally Posted by HatchieLuvr
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Yeah years ago vanilla scents were the rage, was it dan fitzgerald that put out "vanilla killa"? They are what i call "curiosity scents" i dont think deer know wth it is so they might follow it some, does especially. If thats what you want then it probably is worth trying a time or two. But in nearly 30 yrs of deer hunting i feel confident in saying that mature bucks ARENT curious animals! If they cross a path of un-natural scent 99% of the time they will turn around and retreat! They just dont play those games or take chances!!!
Thus the saying, "hunt either does/ young bucks or trophies, rarely will the same work for all" ;) HL |
I am not so sure, I think whitetail are little more curious then we sometimes think, especially in early fall, when I used to bow hunt, , late sept, early Oct, I at one time experimented with some different scent, Now I didn't have what you would call Great results, but I did find that a doe or fawn would sometimes take a closer look, this was farm country, where I am sure they were exposed to a large variety of smells, I don't recall ever trying Vanilla. I think it is worth a try, (just a thought) if you are hunting from a tree stand, put it a good distance away. I do know for sure Fox enjoy licking that licorice stuff. Doc
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