Has anyone tried the Golden rope product. I think it's with Golden Etrus scent. Want to order my supplies for the up coming season.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Save your money. Buy some cheap paracord and tie up a grape vine or red oak or beech branch. You don't need to add any scents. Deer will do that themselves and it won't be urine.
Hemp rope works just fine but it's no better or worse than something natural. It just costs money is all. And the urine costs a lot of extra money that does nothing but make your hands stink.
Hemp rope works just fine but it's no better or worse than something natural. It just costs money is all. And the urine costs a lot of extra money that does nothing but make your hands stink.
BSK
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I use nothing but my own urine under an already in-place branch at the right height. That's all that's needed.
Double-D-Team, I don't know your age, but the one problem I've run into with mock scrapes is my slowly decreasing-with-age testosterone levels in my urine. THAT is what bucks are picking up on in a mock scrape - testosterone. When I was in my late 30s and early 40s, bucks would go crazy over my mock scrapes. Now at 62, not so much!
Double-D-Team, I don't know your age, but the one problem I've run into with mock scrapes is my slowly decreasing-with-age testosterone levels in my urine. THAT is what bucks are picking up on in a mock scrape - testosterone. When I was in my late 30s and early 40s, bucks would go crazy over my mock scrapes. Now at 62, not so much!
I hear what your saying. I still use scent bottles. I love watching the bucks try to get to them.
In a scrape it will make them work it most times, just the woods in general the pee doesnt bother them a bit, the woods is full of pee. Its not human pee, deer pee, bear pee etc after couple minutes its just pee.
It's funny, I put a lot of thought into this subject with my hunting partner in the blind. Pros and cons.
BSK
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Depends on where it is. If it's just "anywhere," they pay little attention to it. They sniff it and move on. If it's in a situation that looks and feels like a buck-made scrape, they will work the scrape and add their own urine to the spot. But again, the more testosterone the better the response.
In my experience the scrape location and profile are the determining factors, not scent. They do that part themselves. The licking branch has to be easily seen. The more like a glowing neon sign, the better. Put it in the open in their face so they have to choose whether to hit it or purposely go around. Sometimes they do go around but usually they just go ahead and work it. I also remove any other branches that could be used, forcing them to focus on the one I want them using. Key is having it in a place they regularly travel and want to scrape in the first place.
That makes scene to me. Thanks will try.
BSK
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I was one of the early champions of the "pee in a scrape" idea many, many years ago. Had the hardest time convince hunters to do so. But I've been using my own urine in existing scrapes and using it to make mock scrapes since the late 1990s. Extremely effective.At my age I'm lacking there.I had a lot of scrapes this year and I wanted to try that theory? If I peed in the scrape what would happen?
I'll never forget the first time I heard the idea. A group of deer researchers sitting around having beers after a scientific conference. And then, after several beers, one blurts out, "You won't believe what I tried..." As he's describing peeing in a scrape, the rest of us are looking at each other and thinking, "That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard." And then I tried it. Amazing results.
A picture from my first unbaited camera census at the first mock scrape I ever made (1999). No scrape existed there but it looked like a perfect set-up. After I created a scrape there with my own urine, that scrape became the hottest traditional scrape on the property for the next decade.
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Well I'm not crazy after all.i am going to try this fore sure. Got the perfect spot. Thanks for your wisdom.
backyardtndeer
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Scrape drippers do work. I use active scrape year after year.
I have never used a dripper. Might have to try one.
Yes they do. I killed a buck a few years ago working a scrape I made with a dripper.
deerhunter10
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I don't use a rope just pee in my mock scrapes that I make. I am a little different I've had good luck with cedar trees.
Don't have many cedar trees. I am going to try the pee trick.
tellico4x4
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I've got a trail cam pic somewhere of me & 2 very young grandsons hosing down a single scrape . Had just hung the cam & best I remember we had 5 different bucks hit it that night! Those " boys" are 28 & 26 now
. Had just hung the cam & best I remember we had 5 different bucks hit it that night! Those " boys" are 28 & 26 now
30-06 type of guy
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I've always just used my own pee. I've watched a lot of them get worked and killed some working them. A scent I've seen them take to instantly is black widow branch butter. Make a mock scrape or use an existing one and put it on the licking branch.
