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Cheap Scent wicks!

BTaylor said:
Some folks swear by using used ones.
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I tried used ones for years. Some highly respected whitetail guys used to advocate using them. But in those days there was a lot of other things that I was doing wrong. I never had luck with ANY lure. I used to drag tarsals, save bladders, wipe down entire fresh deer carcasses with rags to get scent from each and every gland. I've never had a mature buck respond. But that doesn't mean it won't work. I did those things before I practiced odor reduction and before I understood wind patterns. No lure is gonna work if deer are downwind of human odor.
I'm sure rut timing, herd structure, and hunting pressure will have an influence on how effective it is.
 
Swingin' Free said:
Bear hunting?
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No the folks I remember talking about using them were deer hunting. We did have a lady that was hunting with us during her cycle that had an encounter with a bear that definitely was picking up scent. Came directly to her tree and stood up on it. She ended up having to throw some non-critical stuff at it to get it to move off. Fortunately she had a lot experience with bears and wasnt too worked up about the whole deal.
 
Buckhole75 said:
I have used them in the past and they work well.Just like with calling when it comes to using scents Timing is everything.
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You hit the nail on the head. It is ALL ABOUT TIMING. Most often that TIME is really short and if you don't understand that you will run off more deer than you will ever attract.
 
BTaylor said:
Some folks swear by using used ones.
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The late Charles Alshiemer used to write about this in Deer & Deer Hunting regarding the benefits of Pheromones from any estrous source be it animal or human. In fact he as so much said the time leading up for a humans estrous cycle and then went on to explain the many benefits of extracting the material from cows and a friend who was an artificial inseminator. The chemical component for all pheromones is essentially the same but that whole thought process kind of petered out. I think a person still smells like a person, a cow smells like a cow and deer smells like a deer. In nature the scents being emitted cannot be controlled. Not saying there isn't any validity to the premise but its application as a practical matter could be unrealistic.
 
I have used both methods and both have worked can be messy so wear gloves LOL
 
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