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Hey guys, im interested in what scents you guys swear by?  I use code red's doe piss for a drag behind on the walk in.  buck piss for about now when they are sparing and then the estrus in the next couple weeks.  Just curious what has worked for anyone in the past.  Please feel free to share any stories.  Good luck.

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Tried just about everything over many years,  but gave everything up a few years ago. Until I tried Ever Calm last year. It is by far the best working scent product I've used. Seen at least a half dozen instances, where it has worked, when deer should have spooked and didn't. 

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6 minutes ago, rachunter said:

Don’t want to step on your thread “buck_it” but how do you guys use the evercalm?

i’ve been smearing it on a stump or two around the stand. During ml a small doe was licking it

As soon as we cross the trout stream I hit the bottom of our boots. I'll then give a swipe to tree by our blind or if hunting solo on the tree above my head in my stand. 

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 The first buck I ever killed back in '80s came into some Tinks 69 on Cotten balls in a film canister . The years after I must have used gallon with no luck .

Today I've used EverCalm and had young bucks come in and lick it , but I'd recommend putting it in a scent wick and talking that when you leave .

here's first deer via Tinks 

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Yes, I'm big on scents as a couple of my stands are on very small properties with lots of deer traffic... I use evercalm on my boots and also will put it on some hanging felt pads here and there.. For the pre- rut right now I use the evercalm with the testosterone in it... my scent drag I will use buck urine, and during the rut I will use doe estrous.. I use 2 and hang them around my stand when I get there.. good luck! 

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The only scent I will use is a fresh non bloody tarsal gland off a road kill or a friend's deer.. The only last a couple of day depending on weather . just make sure they came from 3 miles or more from your hunting  spot.. Doesnt matter buck doe or dawn..every deer comes in to see who the new deer is.. Hang up wind 40 yards or so 2 ft off ground... You'll be amazed.. Oh and don't put out in the dark or you'll regret all the deer you can't see to shoot

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16 minutes ago, rachunter said:

How often do you refresh evercalm?

I'll hit a few trees with a swipe, in my last 100 yards, every time, going in. And have some on my boots, entering the woods where I will be hunting. I won't make fantastic claims that Ever Calm will work every time on every deer. But from what I have observed, it does work pretty darn good, most of the time. If it will get a deer to stop, for a shot, that would other wise spook or go to alert, it's a good thing. IMO.

Now if a bunch of hunters start to use Ever Calm in the same area, I would think deer will eventually catch on, and start to associate it with humans. Nothing is ever fool proof. And there really are no short cuts to good woodsmanship. Again, JMO.

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16 hours ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Ever calm is the only thing I'm sold on. Had numerous deer approach from dead downwind of me. A couple landed in the freezer.

X2 on the Evercalm. I'm not a big scent user, but tried that stuff last weekend for the first time. Lone doe came from directly downwind and bedded below me for 15 minutes. Right along side the trail I just walked in on. I had put it on my boots for the approach to the stand and rubbed it on a few close saplings. She bedded a few feet from where I put it on the saplings. Could have been a coincidence as a dataset of 1 isn't very conclusive. But I'm looking forward to trying it this weekend. 

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I'm relatively new to bow hunting so im still kind of new to the scents and stages of rut,  but i've only ever seen one instance where the drag behind and hangers work.

Last year, i witnessed my buddy setting up his scent trail on the last weekend in October.  He stops before entering the woods, takes out his ever-calm and puts it on his boot.  Then grabs a couple felt sticks, puts buck and doe urine on them. 1 to drag behind, and 2 to hang.  After watching him do a figure 8 in shooting distance, he sets the hangers up.  As he gets to the bottom of the ladder, we both hear a rustle, look to our left, a doe is running from the field into the woods with a 6 pt hot on it's tail.  As we are in shock of this happening, the buck stops mid stride and looks back, we look as well and a massive 14 typical 130 class comes trotting through right behind the first two.  Then the 6 pt looks directly at my buddy and charges him full sprint and stops no joke 5ft away from him.  Lifts his nose and bolts it as the 14 pt follows the doe.  Heart was racing harder than when we see that trophy standing in the shooting lane.  crazy!!

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3 hours ago, grampy said:

I'll hit a few trees with a swipe, in my last 100 yards, every time, going in. And have some on my boots, entering the woods where I will be hunting. I won't make fantastic claims that Ever Calm will work every time on every deer. But from what I have observed, it does work pretty darn good, most of the time. If it will get a deer to stop, for a shot, that would other wise spook or go to alert, it's a good thing. IMO.

Now if a bunch of hunters start to use Ever Calm in the same area, I would think deer will eventually catch on, and start to associate it with humans. Nothing is ever fool proof. And there really are no short cuts to good woodsmanship. Again, JMO.

That's a great point ,as a product gains popularity ,it becomes a trigger for deer to become alert or even avoid it all together once enough deer get spooked while be around the ever calm.

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Ive used different scents over the years with no luck at all. Last year, after reading alot about when and how to use it, and going off of the advice from a couple of guys on here, I gave estrous scent another try. I used Code Blue Standing Estrous. I used it on a drag and then hung it on two scent wicks, one on either side of my stand at around 20 yards. The first evening I was there with it, I had a young buck following the drag trail and sniffing the wicks. The next day I repeated the drag and wicks and ended up killing a nice 3 1/2 year old buck that came in sniffing the air with his lip curled. I never let him get to the wicks, so I cant say with 100% certainty that he came in to them, although he was on a trail headed right toward it and the wind was going to where he came from. This happened on Election Day. Im sure that being successful with scents has to do with using it at the right time. Ill be using it in another week and a half or so.

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The big problem I have had with scents is knowing for sure that they have worked .... Or was it a case of the deer would have come in anyway. The only occasion that was quite convincing involved a drag rag where the buck came in right on my track with his nose to the ground. That was very convincing.

I do use a few drops of deer urine right on the trail exactly where I want the deer to stop. I have found that they can't seem to get by it without stopping to give it a sniff. So while other people are making noises to stop the deer for a standing shot (and drawing the deer's attention to themselves), I just let the deer's senses do the job for me. I can stop them in the middle of my shooting lane and in a position where their eyesight is obscured with no direct view to me getting ready to shoot.

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Tinks 69, has worked on MULTIPLE occasions for me, sadly I botched several of those chances, but I have also watched a nice buck walk right down my friends scent drag line while I was in a tree stand, and he was using tinks 69 also. The stuff works, if theres a buck in the area, its going to check it out, from my experiences

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