Who uses the Buck Fever pre/post or Rut synthetic scents, and what results/reactions have you had with it?
This time of year, is it too early for the rut formula? please describe your method of application...
I have used Buck Fever synthetic scents in the past, with good results. BUT...
I read about using diluted ammonia, and have good results with that also.
One part ammonia, two parts distilled water.
My personal opinion is that most of the situations
I run into, no scent is best of all.
Where I am in Michigan, we have a ton of hunting pressure, and the deer have seen it, and smelled it all. ANYTHING out of the ordinary puts them on alert before curiosity gets a chance.
I took my 2 biggest bucks to date using their products during the rut in and near established scrapes. That was a few years ago, but still have had bucks come into it the last few years, they just were not the shooters I was looking for. I used the pre rut with the gland formula up until the first week of Nov. I would drip the pre rut into a scrape, spray the overhead branch with the gland formula and used the gland formula on rubs in the area. During the rut I did the same thing but with the rut formula. I found that if I used it for about the last two weeks of October into November, I had the best luck. PM me if you have any other questions.
I always put a bit of it on my boots--the theory being that it is a neutral masking scent, but I am not sold on any of the "hot steamin' stuff out there. I've had more deer spook than anything else.
I used their stuff for two seasons with no results, good or bad, whatsoever.
I used them for three seasons... I know the forehead scent (used on mock rubs) works like a charm.. I had bucks tearing up trees all over the bluff close to where I made my mock rubs...
I also had bucks scraping within 40 yards of my doctored scrapes.. never did kill one of those bucks...
I would use them again. But I've went to a "no scent is the best scent" method. I've never had much luck hunting scrapes anyway. Bedding and food always works for me.
Good luck out there.
JDS III
please, don't humor me!