I have never used Deer scents or Calls/grunts. Is there anything that you have found to work well over the years?

THANKS!

I have had somewhat mixed resultes with grunt calls. The only deer that seem to respond to them are smaller bucks but at the right place and time you can literaly call them back time and time again like they were on a string! No flames please, I'm sure they will work for bigger bucks to but the ones I have tried to "grunt in" that were in sight never so much as raised an ear or acted in any way that they even heard the call.

Tinks 69 is the one lure that I wouldn't want to be without during the rut. This stuff has worked for me many times.

Quick story, a couple of years ago I was dipping a few little twigs and tree limbs in a bottle of Tinks early one morning (still dark) in a circle around my tree stand, before climbing in.

I was dipping a small limb in the bottle when I heard a noise behind me. I turned around and was face to face, inches from a whitetail buck. He snorted, we were still face to face for the next 3 seconds or so as we simultainiously jumped ten foot in the air He ran off and for the life of me I couldn't tell you wether he was a spike or a record book deer but for at least a few seconds he was a "real MONSTER"

I have grunted and rattled up some nice bucks. I use both some times at the same time sometimes alone. I don't due both very hard just some lite grunts and some lite rattling. Scents I use them if they help or not I couldn't tell you. I have had deer come up and smell places I have put scents but if it drew them in I don't know.

P Dog Shooter, your experience has been totaly opposite of mine. From what you have stated and others that I believe have said I wonder just how much of "techniques" that work are carved in stone or just figuring out what workes best in the areas you hunt. I guess there are a lot of factors that play into it like, buck to doe ratio, climate, point of rut, ect.

I haven't ever hunted the rut. I've hunted pre rut a number of times and rattling and grunting has only yielded smaller bucks but it doesn't drive them away either so perhaps no harm no foul. I've not had any results to speak of post rut but I've not hunted the "second" rut either.

As to scents and having not hunted during the rut, I use only cover scents and will swear on using one like fresh earth or dirt. I had a four point and a couple does once come out right on top of my ground blind (so much for proper placement). The blind didn't have any "unnatural" materials like camo netting etc. in its makeup but was there for a length of time since pre-season. That buck and those does were on to me due to their closeness (about 30 feet) but couldn't quite make me out. (I was camo head to toe including full face mask and gloves but no scent-lok type stuff and against a large tree). After playing their silly little games (head bobbing, etc.) they circled downwind of me TWICE! I could hear they were sucking in air through their collective noses for all that it was worth but couldn't scent me. Like I said after doing this twice they settled down, walked off a few yard and began feeding.

I have heard good things about a scent called "Code Blue." I would be using it right now except I can't find anything but empty spaces on the shelves and displays that once held it. I would be interested in any opinions on this or others. Mike.

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My wife swears by Raccoon Pee. It comes in a bottle. She hunts on a river where there lots of raccoons. She states deer and pigs never smell her when she uses it. We have killed deer and pigs as close as 20 yards when using it.
Just last weekend I was using the scent waffers by HS Scents and had deer, bucks and does all around me as close as 10 yards. They were all around me and never acted as if they smelt me.
I was using the "Buck in Rut" and the "White Oak Acorn".
I like them because they are so easy to use and las for ever. The ones I have are at least 3 years old and must still be working fine.

I bought some code blue doe-in-estrous urine today and a big primos can.

we'll see..