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Are there any products out there that you guys would swear by?

Feed them all year with peanut butter then it'll work.

Ha ha - deer attractant. Just call it what it is - BAIT!!!

A hot doe usually does the trick.

Yes, and when I kill a doe in heat, I collect her urine in a bottle.

You know what to do with it I speculate.

It smells the same to a buck.

I hunt mainly hardwoods where Acorns are a main crop/food for deer. An Alabama made product called Shine's white Acorn cover sent works extremely well for me as a cover scent and as an attractant. They make other products that I have not tested.

https://www.shinesscents.com/index.asp

An Update -

There is 1 product that I use and it has worked for me more than once. I have had the opportunities to shoot young deer, does, & I DID shoot a buck because of using......

The Primos Bleat Can.

Now it will not work every time because, no deer may hear it or a deer close may not be interested.

But it HAS worked for me, and I keep it handy.

For several years I've had real good luck with a product called VS1.I use it on a drag rag just about when the rut starts,drag it in a circle in areas where you want to take a shot in.They also sell another product that works well as a cover scent DEER HERD IN A STICK.It in a stick form like deodorant.It seems to keep them calm.You just rub it against brush,tree or the side of a deer blind near where you are hunting.It smells exactly like a deer does.

I consider it as part of the challenge. If I can't stay downwind I deserve to be scented.

I just smell like me. Which is probably pretty bad.

Copenhagen and coffee. They can't resist, and neither can I!

I make a mixture of vanilla, maple extract, almond extract and doe esterous scent, mix it up a gallon at a time and spray it on everything as I go into my hunt area. It works as a cover and an attractant.

I put that on pancakes.

There are a few I always have in my pocket. Tink's 69, and a Primos bleat "can" call.

Neither works all the time but both work enough to make sure I have them with me.

Actually, according to a biologist friend, after doe in heat pee is exposed to air for a very short period of time, it oxidizes and turns into ammonia and smells like any old garden variety pee. The secretions that come out of a doe that drive bucks crazy has a very short, matter of seconds, shelf life and can't really be duplicated or stored. So, the urine you are collecting may make a good cover scent but little more. Same with Tinks and all the other urine based products designed to separate us from our money. IF my friend is right, even if manufacturers were able to obtain "steaming hot and fresh" estrous urine and bottle it, it would be ruined the first time the customer opened the bottle.

People who sell urine based attractants have two things going for them. First, it won't likely spook deer and may mask human odor. Second, If it is used during the rut when the grown ones are cruising around for does like they would anyway, enough customers are going to see and kill a big one and be loyal to the product for life.

RJY66 -

That's the first I've heard of that. Maybe something to it.

At any case DEER URINE will not scare deer away.

Before I got a desk job, silage, diesel fuel and cow schidt used to get me pretty close to deer.

The only way I've ever found that is guaranteed to attract a good buck, is to not have a deer tag with you.

Other than that, I've used the bleat can with mixed results. Seemed to work when I was fairly confident I was already in a good spot.

And I've used the urine as a cover scent. Only thing I've noticed is it seemed to work better as a cover scent than actual cover scents. With doe "heat" urine on my boots and lower pant legs, I've had squirrels literally stand on my legs if I was sitting at the base of a tree and super still/quiet. That happened once, but with normal cover scent, birds and squirrels all seemed to be fully aware I was around.

Just my very unscientific observations.

I dumped a bucket of fallen apples in the woods behind the house. They were gone the next morning. The older, the better. They can't help themselves!

Tink's 69 absolutely works, IF there is a buck in the mood, and I suspect you probably need a hot doe in the area. I have actually seen deer trail what I put down. I have had two deer run in before I could sit down. I really don't use it anymore because it only seems to work a couple days out of the season. Seems like you need more than one buck in the area too. I don't know of anything that will pull a buck off trailing a hot doe, unless one buck chases the others off.

Yes,

Long story short, I had big White Oak trees in my yard. I picked up 5 gl. buckets of acorns and dumped them in Pine plantations. They got ate, & I got deer.