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Do you deer scent or flavored food attractant?
I like rock salt for both doe and bucks, may use a jar of peanut butter to. I like to put out Buck scent and make mock scapes.

Grunt call, rattle bag

Nope. It could be useful, I suppose, in some areas and circumstances.

Corn and roasted soy bean mix.

I do have a feeder in a food plot for the women and kids, but I wont hunt it. I hunt trails, logging roads, where the deer are eating acorns, edges, pinch points, etc.

Deer dander and Vanilla Killa from the Fitzgeralds. Good stuff IME.

Another amazing option, when the rut is hot, is VS-1 in the stick. But it is too damned expensive.

Another amazing option, when the rut is hot, is VS-1 in the stick. But it is too damned expensive. [/quote]
The same company makes another product called Evercalm. Both products have produced some magic over the last 5 or 6 years.
Agree that the price is ugly.

I have found Deer Dander to be a direct replacement for EverCalm at a better price. Great products, both, however.

Typically I just hunt good spots and high travel areas. We've had a good acorn crop this year and that helps.

The only food attractant I use is Corn-a-Plenty blocks from Southern States. It's not a mineral block, it's pressed corn, molasses, soy, salt & minerals, vitamins and some other stuff. They chew on it, but they only generally take a quick nibble as they're walking by. I've seen other critters hit it too. The thing fits perfectly in my back pack, so I can get them out there where I need them. A block might last a month in the early season when there's plenty of other food sources. But later on, especially when there's snow cover, a block might only last a week.

https://www.southernstates.com/cata...nshed-corn-a-plenty-wildlife-block-25-lb

I don't usually use buck lures. If I do, it's James Valley gel on a few branches. It's the only thing that I've actually seen work. Had a 6 point following a group of does and when he caught a whiff of that, he dropped them like a hot potato and came running in.

https://www.jamesvalleycompany.com/Full-Rut-Deer-Lure-Gel-p/frg.htm

^^^THIS^^^

For the last five years or so the best deer attractant has been my wife's Jeep.

I don’t use anything

I used to use Tink's 69. But I've been without it for a few years now. I really don't notice much of a difference. 3-4 times I do know the bucks came down the scent trail and sniffed the Tink's I had on scent wick.

The biggest deer I shoot are just traveling. Grunts, scents and rattling seems to only bring in the young ones for me.

I’ve heard vanilla works? Any one confirm

I've only had deer scent and grunt call work one time, harvested a 7pt. buck that was following the trail of a group of does that had circled my stand. I gave a series of grunts just at dusk and the buck came right in following the scent of the does, I don't know if he was simply following the scent of the does or if the scent I put out and the grunting helped thing along or not. I like to think that it did.

Try parking your truck out in front of the blind. This one walked by my shop and the wife and daughters cars just a few minutes ago.

He headed off across the patch of clover and down the creek, making scrapes along the way.

Yes is can work as a good cover and attractant. It seems to spark curiosity and distracts the deer to help set-up a shot.

I’m in the less in best camp. A grunt call can be deadly. Some of my best bucks were grunted in just after they gave chase to a doe that is not quite ready. Also when they are just out trolling like pretty much right now.