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Another stupid but effective thing I've done; I stole one of my wife's apple scented candles and burned it while hunting in a new spot that I had no time to properly scout. It brought in several does who had their noses in the air looking for a treat. One happened to bring a friend along in tow that I put a tag on the antler of.

Another stupid but effective thing I've done; I stole one of my wife's .....

Thanks for all the feedback, guys. I feel like I actually learned something new and significant to add to my hunting knowledge.

I've also heard from reading other forums that the sound of a man pissing from 15ft up down onto dry leaves will arouse their curiosity too.

YMMV

I've heard that they become even more curious if a hunter also drops solid waste from that height, too.

I noticed many years ago the fact that piss in or near a scrape could cause curiosity or even increase activity. Don't know why, but it does work.

I also have seen that the smell of tobacco will attract deer either through curiosity or something. Not cigarettes, but chewing tobacco. Several times I've had deer walk under a tree where I was sitting 30' above and smell, paw and lick where I was spitting.

The strangest I've seen is the reaction of buck deer to the scent of a woman at...."that time of month". At first I wasn't sure this was a real reaction until I experimented. I "borrowed something from the girlfriend".....used Kotex.....and hung it near a scrape. The next morning there WAS increased activity. The deer had created a NEW scrape under the hanging Kotex and abandoned the original scrape 20 yards away. Since then I've done this a number of times with almost always a positive result.

Note: I tried to get her to go to the woods with me and pee in the scrapes, but she was having nothing to do with that idea.