Well, I've had a good bit of experience with many different scent so I decided to add my 2 cents.
Here's my comments:
"I have used a number of different products over the years. I have even used products that were kept refrigerated, just delivered from the farm that morning! I have had almost no success with scents myself. Can a buck be killed with be following a scent line like this out of curiosity.
One of my best hunting buddies swears by Tinks and uses it all the time. He claims he's killed a number of deer with it.
More often the reaction you get from a scent line is either a pause, sniff and go on or no reaction at all.
However, here is the most important point.... I don't know if you have ever seen a stud horse around a mare in season, the reaction and intensity is pretty much the same with a buck deer and a doe coming in. The drive these animals have to breed the female is nothing short of incredible. There is no keeping them from getting to the doe. If you bust up a chase, a buck will either circle wide and cut the track and keep going or he's coming back to straighten it out shortly. He won't hardly give up if she's hot.
If the stuff in the bottle had the active pheromones that a live doe does.....you would be over run with bucks to the point that the game and fish dept would have to make the stuff illegal! Seriously.
We lease a farm in Illinois and I have hunted the rut there every year for the last 10 years. I have seen countless chases, some with less drive than others but some had an incredible intensity. I have had as many as 13 bucks come by a set in one morning. You will never see this kind of action from scent in a bottle.
The Pheromones that the doe produces is what creates this drive and they have a very very short life. I have heard it's only about 24 hours. Therefore, you cannot keep this in a bottle.
Of course you also have the issue of having to place yourself where you are putting out the scent. That's a whole other problem. If you have been there a deer can smell you, period. It may not be enough to bother the deer but bucks do take that way more seriously than a doe.
I have a bluetick I use for blood trailing and I take her with me when I go hunting and leave her in the truck. One afternoon, I pulled up to my parking spot about a quarter mile from my stand and let her out while I was getting my gear on. The next thing I know she's missing and I can't find her know where. Then it hit me.... I bet that %*!$# tracked me to my stand thinking she's here for a blood trail job! I grabbed my gear and headed towards the stand. About a hundred yards down the road, hear she comes, headed back to the truck. In about 12 minutes she had tracked me all the way to my stand and come back! that track was 8 1/2 hours old, down a grass road and trail that is pretty clean so I don't have to touch anything.
Never underestimate an animal's nose!
OH, how did I know she actually made the track all the way to the stand....her butt tuned up on my trail camera that night!
I am not saying there are not some situations where you might benefit from using scent or that you won't kill a few deer using it but it will be very few.
Personally, I would not bother with scents as the cost/effort does not justify the results. Others might argue that if it helps you kill just one buck it's worth it.
I do believe that If your going to use scents you need to be a believer. Much like many other hunting products, if you don't have faith in it, it probably won't work well for you.
Good Luck either way,
O.E."
Larry S.
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