Estrous Scent?

[nybuckboy]

I hear some say that you never want to use estrous til first week of Nov but I can't help but wonder... does a buck look at his calendar if it's mid Oct and say to himself... hmmm it's a month early OR does he say it smell like it and comes in to check it out. I think if you hung the real stuff, fresh from a deer farm not some bottled up from Gander from who knows when a mature buck if he whiffed it would come in on a string. Your thoughts?

[Four Season Whitetail's]

I hear some say that you never want to use estrous til first week of Nov but I can't help but wonder... does a buck look at his calendar if it's mid Oct and say to himself... hmmm it's a month early OR does he say it smell like it and comes in to check it out. I think if you hung the real stuff, fresh from a deer farm not some bottled up from Gander from who knows when a mature buck if he whiffed it would come in on a string. Your thoughts?

Now sure is the time to start using good scents but make sure you get it from a farm that gets vaginal secretion when collecting scent. None of that and you dont get the pheromones and without them a mature buck knows that doe is not ready to breed. You will still get younger bucks to go ape $hit but the mature bucks need the real stuff to respond.

[HuntOrBeHunted]

I use scent more for a cover up smell than anything myself. And event the "better" stuff like tinks as a watered down smell to it. I have never had much luck hunting with it.

[RyanVT]

I like to use code blue

[Geno C]

I've had plenty of older doe over the years stir the woods up when they were close to coming into hest last week of october. Plus or minus a few days if used it might just catch the nose of a horny buck. I've used it last week in oct and shot buck

[Hock3y24]

I sprayed scrape mate ( code blue) on my boots and the doe I shot monday followed my tracks, she was curious. I got some fresh estrous on here and I'm going to try it this weekend.

Edited October 22, 2014 by Hock3y24