skyhunter

sorry to hear that. unforntunately many people / animals don't act like human beings and have no respect for humanity or themselves.

the trailcam that captured the fox is a home made unit refered to as a homebrew. Is has a Sony 6 meg camera (S600) inside. These trail cams units are commonly built by a host of people and also offered for sale by many.

this guy gave me a treat for Halloween.

Thanks; I agree with you and don't get someone wanting to exterminate a beautiful animal like a grey fox. Some people have no respect for nature.I'd rather get a live picture of one than kill one.

bucks are scarce in this Pine Bush spot so this is all I got this week.

this darn grey just won't turn his head even a little towards the camera. this fox has done this to me 2x now. never sticks around for a 2nd picture either. lets hope there's a 3rd time?

never said they couldn't. I asked can they be brought into heat anytime right after a new order comes in?

I would agree that lots of claims coming from manufacturers of scent products are questionable. The subject of preserving pheromones is not in question.

Of course she laughed. what she knows is that she wants to sell you product, so she tells you it lasts for months. what's not crazy is that she sells a product lacking the main ingredient and is either ignorrant about the nature of pheromones or she lies to sell product. what would you do in her shoes? you be the judge.

agree with the bad card

Not much definition in the muscular structure and not a very big belly. Could be a very healthy 2.5 year old which would explain the lack of mass on the antlers as well. nice buck!

wowee!

got this one the past week.

Why rely on someone else and take it here and there when you can check it out yourself by shooting it? If sights have not been comprismised and arrow rest has not moved then it should shoot right where it did before you droped it. Shoot it and you will know.

"poppycock" yourself; that's what they did; each bottle from a specific deer. Many manufacturers lie; some don't. nowhere in your last post did you debate the fact that estrous pheromones are not present in days old "heat" deer urines. That makes some sense.

Actually this information was provided by the "Tanks" scent company; not "Tinks". The link I read this from no longer works.The Tanks company specialized in deer scent from one particular deer and not a potion of combined pees mixed togehter. They told the truth about so called estrous scents on their website and detailed the fact that the nature of pheromones make them unpreservable. Natural dissapation occurs over a few days and nothing can prevent that occurence. That's why they (Tanks) did not market an estrous product like the rest of the companies and instead just sold urine from a single donor deer.As far as your question "how do Box store companies keep them (pheromones) alive"? answer: they don't.

I would agree that the synthetics would be a better alternative to using aged "estrous" scents over 3 days old which don't contain any pheromones.Biggest scam in the scent industry. Estrous scents which have no estrous pheromones. Priceless!

not missing a thing ; perhaps you are.My point is that the urine has to be collected from an actual doe in estrous and then shipped and used, all in a 3 day period in order for the hunter to be using a product that contains actual estrous pheromones. Now I ask you the likelyhood of that happening? Are estrous does always ready on demand when an order is placed, and will the hunter be using the product within 3 days of collection? Not likely.

nevertheless, the pheromones are gone after a few days and you are left with plain deer urine.

yep, after a closer look at a mink, I believe you might be right.

not sure; I was thinking otter.

I have to agree with using whatever tactic you like regardless of the calendar since deer don't often look at one, and yes a buck would be ready to mate long before the first does are ready and would sieze whatever opportunity that presented itself. As far as the "estrous" scent is concerned, I believe that it a matter of catching a buck in the right frame of mind and is very unpredictable even during the prime days of the rut. Another thing few hunters are aware of and even fewer manufactures of "estrous" products will tell you is a deal breaker. One maunfacturer once told the truth about this "estrous" scam that runs rampant but they were the only ones. The reason I am writing "estrous" in quotes is because what they sell you is missing the main ingredient when you use it and that would be the the estrous pheromones that attract the buck. While these pheromones might be contained in an "estrous" doe pee sample that is bottled, the pheromones naturally dissipate in a matter of a few days and are not present in 99.9% of the urine that hunters use. Unless you capture urine from a doe that is actually in her estrous period (a very small window of opportunity) and then have it bottled, frozen, and then in the hands of a hunter in a day or 2, then what you have is just a plain bottle of aged doe urine. Doe in heat / estrous products are one of the biggest scams in the industry as almost none contain the vital and active pheromones that signal the buck.

congrats; gotta be great taking a target buck. I have yet to do that; nice going!

first one's a keeper

got these last week from Trophy cams and homebrews.