“Do High Priced Deer Scents Really Work?”
by Marty Prokop
I am frequently
asked, “Which works better, deer scent collected and made
from a single deer or deer scents collected from multiple
deer?”
In other words, when
it comes to deer scents, is there a difference that results
in more deer or bigger deer?
A deer hunter could
spend a small fortune on deer scents. I wanted to know what
kind of deer scents are worth my money.
I decided to field
test this.
Deer scents collected
and made from one deer are often much more expensive than
deer scent collected and made from multiple deer. Is the
higher price worth it?
I purchased two
different brands of deer scent. One was collected and made
from many deer and bottled. The other brand stated it was
collected from a single deer.
So off to the deer
hunting woods I went to test.
The results actually
surprised me.
I tested these two
types of deer scent, at the exact same time, during the peak
of the rut on my deer hunting land in Wisconsin. I used
natural deer scrapes as my testing sites. I set up my trail
cameras to monitor results.
Marty Prokop Reveals
Results from Multiple Deer Attractant Scent
So how were the
results of attractant scent from multiple deer?
At the first site,
over a natural deer scrape, I placed a scent wick saturated
with doe-in-heat scent made from several deer.
What did the camera
catch?
In one week, it
photographed one small spike buck on the third day, and the
same spike buck several times after. That was it.
Marty Prokop Reveals
Results from Single Deer Attractant Scent
At site number two,
over a natural deer scrape, I placed a scent wick saturated
with a doe estrus scent collected from a single doe.
What did the camera
catch?
The first night, four
hours after I placed the scent wick, it photographed three
bucks at the scrape. One buck was a nice 8-pointer. Another
was a fork buck. And, yet, another was a spike buck.
On day four, a heavy
racked six-pointer also visited the scrape.
There were 15
different bucks photographed in a week at site number two.
The sizes ranged from a spike buck to a very respectable
10-pointer.
The Bottom Line from
Marty Prokop
Here are the one week
results:
The trail camera at
the site of the single doe estrus scent captured 15 bucks.
The trail camera at
the site of the multiple doe estrus scent captured the one
spike buck on several different days. So the camera was
working during the entire time.
It is a coincidence?
Possibly.
But based on what I
saw, I chose to use the deer scent collected and bottled
from a single deer for the rest of the deer hunting season.
Marty Prokop Tests
Again
I began to think
maybe I had placed the single doe estrus scent in a better
location than the other. So this year I will be carrying out
the same test with one modification.
The only change will
be that I will place the multiple doe scent where the single
doe scent was last year and the single where the multiple
was. If the bucks move to the new location, then I know it
is the scent.
The Results So Far…
I’ll report the
results of my new test as soon as it is completed.
Deer hunters in our
community would love to hear your experiences and thoughts.
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Good Luck and Great Hunting!
Marty Prokop
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Marty
Prokop has 24-years experience deer hunting, processing deer
for deer hunters and venison sausage making. Marty Prokop
teaches deer hunting, hunter safety, deer processing and
deer sausage making classes. Marty Prokop has processed
7,805 deer, field dressed 422 deer and made over 991,990
pounds of sausage, smoked meats and jerky. Marty Prokop
worked with Minnesota DNR programs. His deer hunting videos
are used in statewide advanced hunter education classes.
Marty Prokop is a successful speaker, outdoor writer and
published author.
