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loneranger

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I have been doing a lot of reading about using scent. As using artificial scent in a scrape or near a rub. So far NO scrapes on my property. I have one area that Always has a scrape. Seems to be used by many deer every year. Is at the junction of several deer trails. NOT touched yet. Have toyed with the idea of placing something there to get things started. The Deer doctor says use tarsal and buck urine. So many scent products and most of them must be useless. so which one is true deer scent? the most expensive? Some say hey,,just pee there and let deer do the rest. Been my philosophy to stay completely out of it and just let the deer do their thing, where they want or don't want. Human urine may be the same component as all animal urine but deer have many glands. The tarsals being important to bucks,,and I don't have any Tarsal glands on me. What do you experts on here think about scents? Thanks,,
 
I just take a stick and scrape it fresh for them, break a branch that they can reach and let nature take it's course. It worked on a mock scrape I started this year along a travel corridor. I get 2-3 bucks a day on that scrape and it was nothing last year. I don't think there is any fooling a whitetails nose so I don't pee in them or use any artificial scents. I used to pee in them, but my opinion is that the deer will use them whether we do that or not. I'm at the point where I don't even pee out of my stand; if I can smell the difference between human urine and deer urine then I'm sure they can too.

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I have bucks using mock scrapes that I pee into every time I check them. Whatever makes, or breaks, your confidence that's what you need to do.

Other than that, I don't use scents when hunting. No drag lines, no scent bombs, no cover scents.
 
Well there is disagreement here to pee or not to pee that,,,,is the question. I have read alot and concluded I keep up what I have been doing. Make some mock scrapes each year. And let the deer do or not do what they want with them. When really bored and not seein a deer for a few days,, make a few blats or grunts. But very little on the Blind calling. If I just happen to see an old buck passin no harm in trying to call to him. That’s about it.
 
Me...I'm lazy when it comes to mock scrapes and scent...I use the bucket on my tractor, drop it down on it's nose and then back drag a giant scrape right where I want one. Then I pee in them myself. VOILA...instant scrape and the deer take right to them. :)
 
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