moose scents

[Chirogrow]

A few years back on my first alaska trip it was mentioned to bring moose estrus urine and dip cotton swabs on them then hang them on tree branches. We had moose come check them out but we were also calling from them so I'm not sure how much it helped. Does anyone have any insight into using them? I think it may be helpful to cover up some scent as well

 

[medvedyt]

check out your local hunting rules as here in the yukon per example you cannot use urine or salt licks contrary to many other jurdictions in canada ...

 

[VernAK]

Check Alaska regs also,

 

[akcabin]

Yeah if memory serves. It's illegal to use cow moose urine scent for moose hunting season

 

[Chirogrow]

I looked it up and I appreciate the feedback! It is no longer allowed.

 

[VernAK]

Shouldd you come across a wallow, you could roll around in it by accident

 

[Chirogrow]

Shouldd you come across a wallow, you could roll around in it by accident

I'll do what it takes!! haha

 

[Arcticmanak]

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[Skookem]

Bait em 907 has some horse estrous they use for moose attractant.

 

[jdement]

Bait em 907 has some horse estrous they use for moose attractant.

I didn't know that was a thing. Any info on success of using horse estrous?

 

[Skookem]

I can’t speak on it for loose but they make some pretty good bear sents. Just don’t wanna walk around grid country smelling like food.

 

[MacGyver]

Shouldd you come across a wallow, you could roll around in it by accident

One year my partner took a nice bull. He kept the bell, because it smells bad, but left it at my house. I put it in a plastic bag and the freezer. The following year I took it out of the freezer and let it thaw out. Just before I went hunting, I've open up the bag. And started throwing up, it was so, so bad.

 

[Larry Bartlett]

my rec is to stop the non-sensical approaches to moose hunting. You don't need it, period. Just get in country and hunt then harvest one. there is no special trick or potion that will up the odds of success, only nose to earth and eyes to horizon.

 

[Larry Bartlett]

If you were a moose, would you get fired up by the scent of an animal you don't even know about like a horse? Come on, what is goin on here really?

 

[diamond10x]

I didn't know that was a thing. Any info on success of using horse estrous?

A local guy I know who gets a moose with his bow every year says he uses it sometimes depending on the timing of the rut that specific year.

He also said his dad and grandfather would pack in on horseback and if they had a mare in heat they would bring her just to have around that it would attract bulls. He said it was what everyone did who owned pack horses.

Can't say whether its true or not but I'd be curious to find out if it at least makes bulls curious enough to come get close enough to investigate.

 

[neandth]

Buck Expert has a synthetic urine, it’s kind of red in colour in a clear bottle. Smells as bad as the natural stuff, to me anyway. I got it at Cabelas last year.

 

[Larry Bartlett]

Snake oil IMO

 

[MacGyver]

A local guy I know who gets a moose with his bow every year says he uses it sometimes depending on the timing of the rut that specific year.

He also said his dad and grandfather would pack in on horseback and if they had a mare in heat they would bring her just to have around that it would attract bulls. He said it was what everyone did who owned pack horses.

Can't say whether its true or not but I'd be curious to find out if it at least makes bulls curious enough to come get close enough to investigate.

Yes.....I've been told by people who hunting on horseback that have shot bull moose that came to them, think their horse was a cow moose.

A local guy I know who gets a moose with his bow every year says he uses it sometimes depending on the timing of the rut that specific year.

He also said his dad and grandfather would pack in on horseback and if they had a mare in heat they would bring her just to have around that it would attract bulls. He said it was what everyone did who owned pack horses.

Can't say whether its true or not but I'd be curious to find out if it at least makes bulls curious enough to come get close enough to investigate.

So, your thing about spray some moose sent around to bring in a bull. For that to work the bull need to be down wind, right? That also mean you are up wind from the bull, do you reallywant to be up wind when a bull is coming in?

This may answer some questions about moose scent.
Prime bulls produce and maintain the cresol-scesnted urine from the beginning to the end of the rut, in contrast to cows, who have cresols in urine only during estrus. (Bubenik 1978)

Submature bulls are more likely than other prime bulls to respond to a pit made by another bull. Only 23% of bulls approached a foreign pit of which 53% wallowed and saturated themselves with the foreign urine. Wallowing in another bull’s pithole is done almost exclusivelyby submature bulls. (Miquelle 1991)

 

[Luke S]

That is interesting. I actually put up a game camera on a mud wallow and saw a mature bull twice. Each time I believe he was there 15-20 minutes and he moved around a lot. Later I had 2 separate small bulls show up each for a descent amount of time.
So I assume the big bull owns the wallow and the small ones just visit. Theoretically that would mean there should be 7 or 8 other bulls in the area if only 23 percent visit wallows of other bulls. That seems like a lot (low density area) unless they are traveling a long ways to check out the spot.
Now I wonder if staking out the wallow with a tree stand is worthwhile or maybe a high traffic game trail is a better bet until they respond to calls more.

 

[Jimss]

Moose have one of the best noses found on a big game animal! I'd rather stalk a bull from downwind than try using a scent to attract him upwind.

I have never hung cow moose scent patches in trees nor kept track of scrapes or wallows. One thing I've done is keep track of where I've seen cows. Check and recheck cows to see if a bull shows up in those areas. It's also possible to do some moose calls in areas with cows. My guess is that calling has killed more bull moose than using scent patches....by a long-shot!