Author: James L. Bruner
Scents have been used for years that mainly started with home-made concocted brews steeped of pine, acorn, and cedar. Todays modern hunter has a wide array of commercial products right at their fingertips for a relatively low out-of-pocket expense. All these self proclaimed “best on the market” scents are fine and dandy but only when used in the right area.
Take this scenario for what it’s worth. Years back I had been hunting a wide open hardwood ridge which compromised mainly of oak trees that dropped their mast each year like clockwork and attracted deer from a large area. In all reality I am sure the deer had pretty much set their internal clock to coincide with this yearly feast but in all honesty it sounded like an alarm clock. As you sat in your stand it sounded like rain, more like hail, hitting the crisp leaves below on the forests floor. It made for some very difficult situations in hearing a deer approaching at times and, in several situations, put a deer into motion through sheer nervousness. I had always used a home-made acorn scent to cover my own scent to match the area I hunted which never seemed to fail.
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