has anyone made an acorn scent yourself using real acorns?
09-24-2003, 07:33 AM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: crawfordville florida USA
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RE: has anyone made an acorn scent yourself using real acorns?
benhuntin - what does the vanilla extract do?
The mixture is by far the best attractant and cover scent especially right when the acorns start to fall and especially later in the season when most of the trees have just about quit dropping. I usually use it more as an attractant than a cover scent.
Ive sprayed it on my boots and had deer follow it right to the base of my tree.
09-26-2003, 05:13 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: VA
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RE: has anyone made an acorn scent yourself using real acorns?
Just boil the acorns and put the water in w/ your hunting clothes when you wash them. Also put some in a spray bottle and use that as a cover scent. Make sure there are oaks in the vicinity of where you hunt.
10-09-2009, 04:47 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minnesota
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That's only because the air didn't carry your scent molecules to their nose. Had it done so, the deer would have let you known about it, instantly. LOL!
Say I'm in a large pine tree. The tree smells highly of pine; of course. However, the smell of the pine is no way going to cover my scent.
I thought you wanted to know about the acorn recipe for a lure, not a cover scent. Anyway, you got some interesting feedback.
iSnipe
Say I'm in a large pine tree. The tree smells highly of pine; of course. However, the smell of the pine is no way going to cover my scent.
I thought you wanted to know about the acorn recipe for a lure, not a cover scent. Anyway, you got some interesting feedback.
iSnipe
10-10-2009, 10:45 AM
#17
Spike
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Heres what I do and it works great. boil 1 part acorns to 2 parts water for 30 minutes. ( if you can grind/chop up the acorns in some kind of blender it works better.) Let cool for a couple of hours then strain the acorns and add 1 or 2 tbl spoon of vanilla extract per quart of liquid and mix thoroughly. Put the acorn scent in pump spray bottles. Cost about $5 per gallon.
10-10-2009, 11:04 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Eagleville Missouri
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The cedar limbs in the dryer might be a good idea. I usually just put a few branches in a trashbag with my scent free clothes. The woods I hunt are mostly oak with plenty of cedars mixed in, so I use bags with oak leaves and soil from the area also. I just have all my clothes and coats and gloves that I will be wearing for a week laid out in bags full of natural scents. I only wear them one day before washing in scent free detergent and leaving them bagged overnite to soak up the smell of oak leaves or cedar again. Then of coarse wash yourself with scent free soap just before you dress to hunt, and use scent away type sprays on your boots. The deer will still smell you but they may not know you are there, if they smell stronger natural scents, they may think your scent is from hours or days ago because it is not strong. You got to do what you can, keeping your scent from them is best.
The thing is a deers nose can smell every scent separately. When we smell a strong odor we cannot smell anything else. If you could detect individual scents like some animals do you could smell every ingredient in any recipe separately. Like drugs sniffed out of all the cover scents used to fool a dog, plus the natural surroundings the people around, the tires on the car etc.
So you, as a deer would smell human odor, probably the scent free soap, the clothing, the different plastics that make up your gear, the spec of blood left on your knife from last years buck, steel, gun oil, powder residue, and or the stuff you cleaned your muzzle with, what you ate and drank for breakfast and on and on. This recipe makes up a hunter and each and every scent is detected separately. So like I said, do what you can with cover scents, it may help, but stay out of the wind and use thermals to keep your scent away from their nose.
The thing is a deers nose can smell every scent separately. When we smell a strong odor we cannot smell anything else. If you could detect individual scents like some animals do you could smell every ingredient in any recipe separately. Like drugs sniffed out of all the cover scents used to fool a dog, plus the natural surroundings the people around, the tires on the car etc.
So you, as a deer would smell human odor, probably the scent free soap, the clothing, the different plastics that make up your gear, the spec of blood left on your knife from last years buck, steel, gun oil, powder residue, and or the stuff you cleaned your muzzle with, what you ate and drank for breakfast and on and on. This recipe makes up a hunter and each and every scent is detected separately. So like I said, do what you can with cover scents, it may help, but stay out of the wind and use thermals to keep your scent away from their nose.
Last edited by turkey guide; 10-10-2009 at 11:24 AM.
