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Apparently ‘stinky hunter’ seems to work well. If only they could bottle it up.

 

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Deer are also very attracted to beaver castor, skunk essence and red fox urine. They will seek it out to put their nose right in it. Still baffled over that.

I didn’t know that about fox urine but makes sense. Year ago i was coyote hunting in January and used red fox urine as cover scent. Within 15 mins of spraying it, I had several bucks all come out where I sprayed it.

 

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Anyone try Smokey’s Orbital scent? I heard good things about it. Then again, someone recommended to me a very popular scent made by James Valley Scents (I think).. and I had a buck snort the first time using it.

 

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I never tried a pre orbital, interdigital, or any other deer scent at a scrape. If you get a licking branch started early in the season, live deer will deposit their own glandular scent on a daily basis. To get a licking branch started I'll saturate the entire branch or vine with a curiosity scent (vanilla, banana) and the deer will start hitting it immediately. After it is established I will freshen it up with curiosity scent once in a while, but I keep the added scent way up high so that it's not on the same section that the natural glandular scent is.
I have videos of deer, even big bodied bucks standing on their hind legs trying to get to the curiosity lure. I had 7 bucks last year standing around the same branch, with 5 of them working the branch at the same time. It works all year long and they will come long distances to check out who's been there.
I put out a "treecoy" today in an open area and saturated it with banana. I fully expect that transplanted tree to get destroyed.

That’s good info, thx for sharring. I’ve always been fascinated with licking branches and think they are the best (legal) way for getting buck inventory. I been reading up on licking branches more this summer and I’m noticing there are some small things you can do to turn a ‘good’ licking branch into a hotspot for bucks. I look fwd to testing them out.

 

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I met Smokey of Smokey's deer lures a few years back and was impressed with his approach and knowledge. I didn't try his lures until a couple of years ago and I am now a fan of his preorbital gland lure as it is not synthetic and is in a glass container. I have used it two years now on my mock scrapes, it get the activity started quickly and it does bring them in. I have several hundred pictures of deer all ages making repeated stops to rub on my grape vines and to lick/chew on the branches.

I have used and still use active scrape on some of my scrapes via the dripper. It has worked for several years.

My Buddy and I attended Smokey’s seminar out Cabela’s many years ago. It was suppose to be about predator hunting but all he talked about was his pre-orbital deer scent. I’d imagine making scents would be very difficult to be successful but it seems he does very well.

 

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I met Smokey of Smokey's deer lures a few years back and was impressed with his approach and knowledge. I didn't try his lures until a couple of years ago and I am now a fan of his preorbital gland lure as it is not synthetic and is in a glass container. I have used it two years now on my mock scrapes, it get the activity started quickly and it does bring them in. I have several hundred pictures of deer all ages making repeated stops to rub on my grape vines and to lick/chew on the branches.

I have used and still use active scrape on some of my scrapes via the dripper. It has worked for several years.

How often do you have to refill the drippers? Always wanted to try them..

 

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I’m surprised nobody has mentioned estrus or dominant buck. I use one particular brand but can’t imagine most brands not working. I wouldn’t hunt without estrus in Nov.