Scent Recommendations?

[Beagle1]

In my younger days I often used synthetic and natural rut scents and had success with both. Some deer literally came in like they were on a string. I ran a scent line once that went 90 degrees down to my stand and had a buck follow it right to me. But I don’t use scents anymore and kill as many big bucks now. I also use to spray down before every hunt with scent elimination sprays but don’t bother with them anymore and haven’t seen any difference in my success rate.

I agree with the poster who said to hunt travel lanes near doe groups during the rut. That’s where the action will be with or without scents.

One thing I do think is worth setting up are licking vines. Easier than messing with scents and they are visited all season.

Also on human scent. You can get away with some human scent hitting a buck that is hot on a doe but you never know how much will make him bolt. Human scent hitting a buck’s nose is never a good percentage play as bucks will react differently to human scent concentrations. Then factor in wind swirls you can’t detect moving your scent around and it becomes more of a crapshoot.

 

[AlwaysChasinTailNHorns]

What you say make a lot of since, especially this part.
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“the past 6 years has it resulted in a great buck being harvested because they made the conscious decision that the smell of the hot doe during the rut is more important than whatever human scent they’re smelling and come in to check it out”
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Thank you, for taking the time to help me understand why human scent, is not a problem, when a buck is looking for a hot doe.

Tom

Your human scent matters I never said that it doesn’t but some not all bucks but SOME will make a bad decision and choose to ignore foreign scents to come in to hot doe scents during the rut…its not a bizarre statement to say guys have killed bucks coming from down wind. Those deer coming from downwind know you’re there but the ones who don’t decide to blow out and decide to stay on their path of travel into your kill range happens, it’s a bad decision on their part I was just simply saying that I’d rather have a hot doe scent blowing downwind along with my human scent than just my human scent because you can possibly get a buck to make a bad choice to come in anyways and check it out when they are in breeding mode and make mistakes…