bow hunting
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10/21/19 10:25 PM
10/21/19 10:25 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 604 IL
houndone
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OP
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 604
IL
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first year for me doing this. does anyone use scents for hunting and whats there experience with them? what do you use and why.
Last edited by houndone; 10/21/19 10:25 PM.
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Re: bow hunting
[Re: houndone]
#6645471
10/21/19 10:32 PM
10/21/19 10:32 PM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 2,222 SE NEBRASKA
NebrCatMan
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trapper
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I have bow hunted for something like close to 40 years. When I was young I'd spend lots of money on the newest "for sure " thing to kill a super big buck. Most stuff works pretty well but now a days I save my money and just do as good in the kill dept. I have a routine of showing using non scented soap and then Dead Down wind body rub. I always leave my clothes hanging out side most season. They are sprayed down scent killer gold a couple times each year. I haven't washed my camies for years.... unless mud or blood on them. I just learned when and how to outsmart the deer without all the latest "Sure Thing". To each their own!
Remember "Forbidden Fruit makes many Jams"
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Re: bow hunting
[Re: houndone]
#6645476
10/21/19 10:38 PM
10/21/19 10:38 PM
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Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 3,141 Michigan
Ditchdiver
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trapper
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Michigan
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Hunt the wind and your good to go.
When life gets me down..... you know hunting/trapping season is closed.
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Re: bow hunting
[Re: houndone]
#6645511
10/21/19 11:17 PM
10/21/19 11:17 PM
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Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 10,364 MT
snowy
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^ this the only thing I know works 100% of the time.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: bow hunting
[Re: houndone]
#6645538
10/22/19 12:31 AM
10/22/19 12:31 AM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 1,781 Mi, Mecosta
ambush32
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Posts: 1,781
Mi, Mecosta
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If anything I use tarsal glands during the rut phases only in primary scrape areas...hit or miss I've dragged them behind me but really had no luck doing so..
Pretty hard to find anything as natural as a tarsal gland.. I just go to the local deer processor and cut them off and freeze them...
Location is best, lone apple tree, lone white oak, primary scrapes, intersecting trails, and so on...
Thought I was a good trapper until I started trapping coyotes...... Thought I was a good bowhunter until I targeted mature bucks....
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Re: bow hunting
[Re: houndone]
#6645656
10/22/19 07:33 AM
10/22/19 07:33 AM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 8,770 East of the Mason-Dixon Line
DelawareRob
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trapper
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Posts: 8,770
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Get this book, it really has useful information.
Real World Whitetail Behavior
by Jim Roy
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/real-world-whitetail-behavior-jim-roy/1100468992?ean=9781586670986&st=PLA&sid=BNB_%5BADL%5D%20%5BCore%5D%20%5BGeneric%5D%20Books%20(Medium)&sourceId=PLABiNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Bing_c&msclkid=b4adadddfcbf188206fff0731469b73e&adlclid=ADL-7ea8913a-bf6c-46fd-8db2-71d35ef97621
Who is John Galt?
You don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your training.
Semper Paratus
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Re: bow hunting
[Re: houndone]
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10/22/19 08:53 AM
10/22/19 08:53 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,045 North East Kansas
Marty
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trapper
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Posts: 21,045
North East Kansas
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For me bow hunting is about setting an ambush, if I am ambushing something I do not want it looking for me so I stay quiet.
E 'Honey Badger Militia' Sleep, the anti woke adote.
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