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Post what you think of Buck Bombs. Feel free to elaborate. |
| used one last sat. I grunted in a small 8pt that was checking out my artificial scrape. He came right down the middle of the powerline to me walked right past the areas I hit with the BB...never even paused to sniff them. he sniffed the path I walked and avoided it just slightly but never took a second to smell the estrus. They may work but I have never seen clear evidence. |
2 years ago my oldest son was in his stand. Downwind from him was another hunting buddy, Steven, about 300 yards away. The wind was blowing at about 5-10 mph and Steven set off his buckbomb. The wind went past my son and into a swamp. My son said he heard some crashing and thrashing and the buck went by him, headed up wind to Steven. My son got the buck, a VERY nice buck. It was a little over two minures between the time Steven set off the bomb to when he heard the shot. I would say it works.
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Last deer I shot I could attribute to the buck bomb I set off. I used the young buck and he came running with his mouth open and his whiffer going. I have used the doe in estrus before and it brought one in. It is just a scent. It has the potential to carry a long way. It has potential. How it actually deploys and how many deer are around to smell it will vary. It's expensive but I like it. I see it as just another scent though. |
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Whole lot of does in heat pissing into a bottle to be put on sale for hunters.
My belief is the scents may contribute to arousing a curious buck, but don't know for sure. Guy was a bit nutty....but I always enjoyed this one Watch the video at the site. ETA: part 1 where he uses ammonia, Aqua Velva and his own piss and films reactions. Always fun when he'd do something like this He did a show on opening day of gun season one year using smoke bombs to show how the wind was moving. I don't think any deer came in that day. 
ETA 2 Found the smoke bomb episode starts at 3:37 |
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Whole lot of does in heat pissing into a bottle to be put on sale for hunters. My belief is the scents may contribute to arousing a curious buck, but don't know for sure. Guy was a bit nutty....but I always enjoyed this one Watch the video at the site. ETA: part 1 where he uses ammonia, Aqua Velva and his own piss and films reactions. Always fun when he'd do something like this He did a show on opening day of gun season one year using smoke bombs to show how the wind was moving. I don't think any deer came in that day.
ETA 2 Found the smoke bomb episode starts at 3:37 Eta3 You can try out wind direction using a cotton ball from your tree stand when bored. Take a tiny bit of the cotton ball and release it. It's pretty interesting to see it swirl in the wind currents and eddy's. Been doing it for years, still amazes me to watch the wind blow it all over the place in directions you'd never expect. |
| I made a mock scrape last saturday using Code Blue scrape mate and a small 8 pointer came by and checked it out for about a 30 seconds and left in a hurry thin about an hour later a spike came passed and smelled it and hung out for about 5 minutes. But my favorite deer sent is Ever Calm deer hurd in a stick, I've seen deer walk up to trees ive but it on and smell it and lay down, I've had a coyote come in and smell it thin i stuck him with an arrow. |
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Whole lot of does in heat pissing into a bottle to be put on sale for hunters. My belief is the scents may contribute to arousing a curious buck, but don't know for sure. Guy was a bit nutty....but I always enjoyed this one Watch the video at the site. ETA: part 1 where he uses ammonia, Aqua Velva and his own piss and films reactions. Always fun when he'd do something like this He did a show on opening day of gun season one year using smoke bombs to show how the wind was moving. I don't think any deer came in that day.
ETA 2 Found the smoke bomb episode starts at 3:37 Those Trost vids are comedy gold with the deer hunter crowd. Thanks. |
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I made a mock scrape last saturday using Code Blue scrape mate and a small 8 pointer came by and checked it out for about a 30 seconds and left in a hurry thin about an hour later a spike came passed and smelled it and hung out for about 5 minutes. But my favorite deer sent is Ever Calm deer hurd in a stick, I've seen deer walk up to trees ive but it on and smell it and lay down, I've had a coyote come in and smell it thin i stuck him with an arrow. EverCalm the Origin |
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It kind of a loaded topic, as far as scents go.
I've used them on and off for nearly 40 years and have never had a deer go to the scent I set up. Obviously I've seen the footage of deer sniffing at the scents. I've also watch deer sniff about a thousand different things over the years. So I don't know. I quit using them because it wasn't worth the chance of putting any of my scent down, which I know will scare them off, while trying to put deer scent out. Obviously YMMV |
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It kind of a loaded topic, as far as scents go. I've used the on and off for nearly 40 years and have never had a deer go to the scent I set up. Obviously I've seen the footage of deer sniffing at the scents. I've also watch deer sniff about a thousand different things over the years. So I don't know. I quit using them because it wasn't worth the chance of putting any of my scent down, which I know will scare them off, while trying to put deer scent out. Obviously YMMV My experience as well. My brother put doe in heat scent on his boots and walked down a trail a buck followed later sniffing where he walked, decent buck but we didn't want to shoot it. two weeks later I walked down that trail with no scent on my boots, same buck came down the trail sniffing where I walked. Pissing in a buck scrape will agitate a buck, but he is going to go to that scrape whether you piss in it or not and your piss works just as good as bottled deer piss. Last year I was using an old tree for a ground blind I had to piss and had no bottle so I dug a hole about 2 ft deep into the sand, pissed in it and covered it up. The next morning I went back and a deer had crawled in under the tree and dug out all of the sand and pissed on top of my piss. |
I think all deer scents are pretty much the same. The variable is the deer. If a given deer decides hes going to investigate a scent he will. Same deer next day might not care at all. That said, I use them depending on the situation. Just like a decoy or a mock scrape or any of the other tricks to get a deers attention. This one came on a sting to the decoy with his ears pinned back.
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