Early season lures

[oblivitar]

Just curious if any of you guys use calls or scents in the early season. 

[First-light]

I don't go overboard with anything. I will do a bleat call to attract a doe or small buck but that's about it. I start using scent around the 3rd weekend in October. Anything can happen in the deer woods, I have had deer come into scent early season just a small percentage though.

[wheelieman]

Regular doe urine on my boots, and i use calls all the time,  

[chiefbkt]

Regular doe urine on my boots, and i use calls all the time,

Doe urine here as well, along with grunt tube and can bleat

[deerpassion]

Coon urine on boots , have come across a few doe's that have spooked comin across my trail in when sprayed with doe pee... Other than that some pre-orbital on a licking branch, sparingly bleat, and a grunt here n there unless I have eyes on a buck that's goin the wrong way...

[WNYBuckHunter]

Im not using scents any longer. Never had any luck with them, dont care to keep on experimenting. I have also given up on blind calling and rattling. Low impact is my game.

[wheelieman]

Im not using scents any longer. Never had any luck with them, dont care to keep on experimenting. I have also given up on blind calling and rattling. Low impact is my game.

  a guy in lyons bottles in what is my opinion the best scents in the Fingerlakes and his shop is right up the road from where i hunt, i love sitting in my tree and watching the reactions and mixing things up, 

[MACHINIST]

Im not using scents any longer. Never had any luck with them, dont care to keep on experimenting. I have also given up on blind calling and rattling. Low impact is my game.

 

Same here.I will use some estrous but I wont call unless I see one to call too

[phade]

Regular doe pee in my experience does nothing but spook the resident ladies.

 

I will use scents when decoying and that's about it.

[WNYBuckHunter]

  a guy in lyons bottles in what is my opinion the best scents in the Fingerlakes and his shop is right up the road from where i hunt, i love sitting in my tree and watching the reactions and mixing things up, 

 

You know how quickly pee breaks down? Also, do you know how its collected? They piss on the floor of the barn (many deer) and it runs into a collection vat, along with all of the other crap on the floor. How many scents are you really pouring out of that bottle? Not worth it to me. The only pee Ill use is my own in scrapes. Works just as well as the deer pee you buy.

 

JMO of course.

[phade]

I will say I have had much better luck with Northern Whitetail Scents as she overnights the shipments to me. It sure does breakdown in time, even in 24 hours, but it stays cold the entire time in the fridge, and I typically have her ship 2x to me about 4-5 days apart as I decoy largely late October and early November only.

 

I have witnessed mature bucks snake along drags from urine she has sold me and I do know that the Dan B. buck a few years back was credited largely to a scent drag using her doe in estrous and buck in rut liquid urines. I spoke at length with him and wrote his harvest story, and he's killed a wall full of mature bucks.

 

I agree that a ninja approach is best. However, there are magical times when things like calls, rattles, scents, etc. can be used to perfection. The problem is that it is indeed very rare for those conditions to be present and a buck willing. If not for nothing else, if I haven't killed my buck by the time I start to decoy, it breaks up the monotony of eat, sleep, treestand/blind that will ensue as the chasing starts to take control of hunting decisions.

 

[WNYBuckHunter]

Oh Ive had good results with calls, but not using them blindly. Id like to try a decoy sometime. Maybe then using a scent on it may work, I dont know. I just have had zip for luck with them, even the "fresh" stuff.

[ants]

Just a tiny bit of deer pee has worked for me.( nothing dramatic)... Not doe in heat pee, just plain deer pee. Spray a little on a bush at about elbow level. At the very least it will be a good cover scent

[BizCT]

I have never used a scent lure, don't care to try it. Only thing I use is scent free spray on my clothes, etc.

[robw]

I call all season long, with the fawn bleat call working well in the early season.  In early bow hunts, I use either vanilla extract or anise extract - the pure extracts, not the diluted with alcohol or imitation extracts.  Deer seem to be very interested in finding it, and haven't seen any spook from it.  Had a doe pick up a vanilla scent film canister off a tree branch and mouth it a bit a couple years ago.

Edited September 4, 2013 by robw

[crappyice]

I never heard the vanilla extract thing before...interesting - any logic behind that?

[ants]

I never heard the vanilla extract thing before...interesting - any logic behind that?

I have heard of it...never cared to try it. I guess its a curiosity attractant. One year a few A.H.'s  "thought" they had permission to hunt our property & left a bunch of vanilla soaked cotton balls hanging all over the place. Maybe thats why I never cared to try it.

[Lawdwaz]

I have never used a scent lure, don't care to try it. Only thing I use is scent free spray on my clothes, etc.

 

Oh Biz................I'm sure I'll get crap from "believers" but I wouldn't use those products if they were free.  Don't think that misting on some snake oil to your boots, pants, coat, hat etc is going to do beans for YOUR human scent.

 

Just about the ONLY thing that matters is the wind.  They can all be fooled sometimes but you can never be "scent free" with some bottle of magic from a huckster on TV.

 

Flame suit is on.......................................................grin

 

[wheelieman]

You know how quickly pee breaks down? Also, do you know how its collected? They piss on the floor of the barn (many deer) and it runs into a collection vat, along with all of the other crap on the floor. How many scents are you really pouring out of that bottle? Not worth it to me. The only pee Ill use is my own in scrapes. Works just as well as the deer pee you buy.

 

JMO of course.

Ive never had a negative reaction to this guys regular doe pee, his estrus when used to early will make them run, but the regular they stop and smell it then walk away, Then as the does in the area start getting closer to heat, The stops on the drag trail start getting longer and then they start following it, Thats when i switch to top shelf estrus and sit back and watch the train, its worked good after using the right sent at the right time, and breakdown i keep mine in the fridge and the biggest buck i ever had come to a scent came in to a bottle of this stuff that was over a year old, 

[BizCT]

Oh Biz................I'm sure I'll get crap from "believers" but I wouldn't use those products if they were free. Don't think that misting on some snake oil to your boots, pants, coat, hat etc is going to do beans for YOUR human scent.

Just about the ONLY thing that matters is the wind. They can all be fooled sometimes but you can never be "scent free" with some bottle of magic from a huckster on TV.

Flame suit is on.......................................................grin

The spray is my last line of scent proof. All clothes are washed scent free and stored in bins. I shower scent free, don't eat or drink stinky stuff, brush my teeth with scent free toothpaste, etc. I can't cover my natural human scent 100%, but I believe there is a difference between my smell and the guy who wears cologne and drinks coffee and washes his clothes with fresh linen scent.

I've had deer eating the bushes I'm sitting against. I always sit on the ground and have had many encounters with deer at arms reach. I'm sure it helps that I don't move much, but I think scent free helps too.

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Edited September 5, 2013 by Biz-R-OWorld

[Lawdwaz]

The spray is my last line of scent proof. All clothes are washed scent free and stored in bins. I shower scent free, don't eat or drink stinky stuff, brush my teeth with scent free toothpaste, etc. I can't cover my natural human scent 100%, but I believe there is a difference between my smell and the guy who wears cologne and drinks coffee and washes his clothes with fresh linen scent. I've had deer eating the bushes I'm sitting against. I always sit on the ground and have had many encounters with deer at arms reach. I'm sure it helps that I don't move much, but I think scent free helps too. Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk 2

 

OK, just don't go whole hog on me........................................

 

 

 

 

[gjs4]

scouting will kill them all season long- and its the only thing that will with consistency

 

if lures worked everyone into killing would use them

[oblivitar]

Ill put my clothes outside on hangers 2 weeks before and spray them every so often until opening day. I just got me a stick of that VS-1 and deer herd cover scent i wanna try this year. Ive heard goods things about them

[deerpassion]

scouting will kill them all season long- and its the only thing that will with consistency

if lures worked everyone into killing would use them

Amen! Mr Winky never uses scents or any a that gadget crap... He stresses scouting , patterning , wind , and dam near bullet proof entry/exit...

[CuseHunter]

This may sound far off but an old timer told me to cut up an onion and garlic and use it as a cover scent. I told him it sounded rediculous, but he said onions are a common thing to find in the woods and the deer love them. What do you all think?