i can't believe nobodys killed any bucks yet doing this...i haven't been out all week...started a new job working four ten hour days (monday-thursday) 7-5 which pretty much blows. i'll let you the scoop friday and saturday...the kid i hunt with took one of his buddies down yesterday morning and of course shot a baby 6 pt that i guess died about 100 yds from my tree...so much for him growing up

Started my part tonight. Ran a scent line of Tinks 69 about 150 yds down the back side of a 30 acre corn field. I have been seeing alot of scrapes in the area..
 
Got in the tree about 5pm. got out about 7pm.
Never saw a deer. Will try the same stand in the morning..

last friday morning had a homemade heated scent can out with code blue d buckurine in it. Hade it up off the ground about 3 ft. Had several does and fawns scent checking it.. Then about 8 50 am had a beautiful 13pt come in and stuck his nose right in it knocked it over he had to have gotten hot wax on his beak.....lol I took the shot juked the shaft 20 mins later i shot a 8 pt that did the same thing. I think early part of season you should only use d buck urnie cause it ****es off the d buck in the area. Or use some doe pee thats it. I would only use it till the middle of next week. Then start trying some doc's 2 deer one bottle with a estrous bleat can. I have been using a doe bleat with a series of 2 bleats then wait 30 sec the one more bleat. followed by a new soft grunts of a young buck seemed to do the trick. I have taken 9 buck 9 years in a row now. I hunt all white oak flats but i wouldn't call till you see the deer within sight. Seems once you see them you get their attention it's on. Specially buck i seen 8 different bucks since the first day. And everone was called in with a doe bleat and a young buck grunt. Everyone came in with the stiff leg posture and ears laid back. even a couple small 4's and six's. But the biggest thing is keep your scent 100% scent free. I was using H.S scent clothes wash and H.S scent fresh earth waffers a 3 pack on my cloths and still spraying myself down with fresh earth scent killer. I got winded one time out of hunting monday through friday 2 times a day and seeing deer everythime. But i would also wash my clothes everday from a morning hunt come home and wash for the eveing hunt same for morning. If they don't know your their they be in your back pocket. Just so you guys know too the 13 pt wasn't anything impressive decent rack about 17 inch spread maybe 8 inch g 2's the 8 pt i shot was only 14 1/2 wide with 6 1/2 g 2's but then again i am not a horn hunter i am a archery hunter... Good luck too all hope every has success. The deer i shot and hunt was in 2D armstrong county.
 
                                                  pin drifter.

Im gonna give it a whirl here in a couple hours, headed out about 2pm. Nasty outside.

Date: 10/16/08
Location: Inside Corner / Clover Field - 4d/2g border
Weather: Windy / Cool / Overcast
Scent: Kirshners Roam
Hours: 2pm -> Dark

Details:
Setup on a well used trail. Expected deer to show up around dark. Placed out scent bomb. Someone decided to walk across the field into the woods at 6:30pm in plain clothing. No clue what would have happened, no deer seen at all.

Finally able to get out this morning.  Special golden estrus.  Made mock scrape, with estrus on a wick layin in the middle of it.  Saw 20 turkey and that was it. On stand at 6:15, left at 9:30.  Will give it a shot tomorrow morning and evening.  Good luck.  Hunted on the edge of thick pine trees, that connect a large swamp to a smaller swamp.  2 decent fresh rubs though. 

10-14-08  Evening hunt 2d
scent used: James valley  Scrape Gel
weather: Overcast 73 dwpt. 64% Humidity 60% Baro. 30.17 falling wind wsw 8mp  moon full
I put the gel in two scrape's within 25 yrds of my stand and hung a wick dipped up wind.
Hunted from 2pm to dark no deer seen.
 
10-15-08 Evening hunt 1a
scent used: James valley scrape gel
weather:mostly cloudy  70  dwpt. 64 humidity 84%  wind:sse 3mph moon:full baro: 30.07 rising 
I put scent in 1 scrape 30yrds from stand and 1 scent wick upwind.
Hunted from 3pm to dark Had deer above and below me at 6:15 none came in to see for sure what they where. I think they where all doe's and fawns.
 
10-16-08 Evening hunt 2d
scent used: James valley scrape gel & Mrs. doe pee's doe in heat
weather: mostlycloudy 57 dwpt. 49 humidity 69%  wind: N 6mph baro:30.09 steady moon: full
I put the james valley scrape gel in scrape and hung 2 wicks with mrs. doe pee's doeinheat around stand.
Hunted from 3pm to dark no deer activity.
 
Did not hunt today but did check all the scrapes I put the James valley scrape gel in the last 3 day's. All of them where tore up. I also hung a trail camera on a couple scrape's right behind the house. I added the James valley to them to see how the deer react to it.
 

10-17- hunted 3:00 until about 7.  Watched a draw near the house that I've never archery hunted before, but have seen deer in during spring gobbler.  I climbed a tree opposite of where I believe the deer bed (based on winter scouting trips to the area).  I put out my scent bombs, with tinks 69.  I dont think they were effective because the wind was actually coming from the opposite side of the draw (favoring me, but blowing the scent back towards where I came from).  About 4:45, a neighbor and his buddy came down the gas line 30 yards behind me.  The buddy got off and walked into the woods below and upwind of me and set up somewhere within about 100 yards of me.  Needless to say, game over.  I'll give it hell again tomorrow, probably in a different location.

Area: 2B
Temp: 50 deg and falling
Wind: N/NE @ 5-10 variable towards my hanging wick
Conditions: overcast

Got up and went out early for me(2 pm) since I work the nightshift and was up 35 ft because the prevailing wind sent my scent right over my Code Blue doe in estrous wick I had just refreshed. At 3pm, a 6 point buck was feeding down the powerline towards me and got to 125 yds before making a beeline for an upper pond(this is the normal route for most deer I've seen in the area but there are no trees that I can use in that area at all since they are all small or have branches along the powerline). I grunted multiple times to him and he just glanced in my direction. He fed his way to within 85 yds of me and then bedded down within sight. When he got up, he took up the opposite direction and fed his way back down the powerline. The wind was shifting enough for me to know that he wasn't interested in the wick. I think I'm going to buy some mock scrape and make one. I saw on another website that people have been having luck at this if it doesn't have any estrous scent in it. Maybe just a territorial thing right now, I haven't noticed any rubs either. Maybe these cold nights will kick them into gear.


PS Don't forget any of you guys going out for the next week you have to wear 250 inches of blaze orange walking to your stand, then on stand you must display 100 inches of wrap around the tree or on your body. There will be a few muzzleloader and small game hunters in the woods. Stay safe and good luck.

Its a great sounding call, very deep. After watching that video that came with it, pretty convinced they do roar.

Ill write a little php script tomorrow and do a random drawing. results will be posted on my blog and here.

Winner gets to choose which flies they want... Erie,Spring or Freestone Creeks.


Hunted 6:30->11am then back out from 1-6:00, gave up, at six, didnt see a single thing all day long, froze my****off.

Hunted this evening on the edge of a good bedding area.  Put scent on wick at 20 yards.  6:20 saw small buck.  Never came down wind of the wick so he didnt even know it was there.  6:37 saw 3 doe to my right.  Didnt really care about the scent being there although the one was smelling the air for a few seconds.  Hey jeremy, I"ll stay with it.  
 
Question.  Have any of you guys tried tinks power scrape yet?  Have made 2 mock scrapes with it and one gets hit here and there, the other one is torn up, about twice the size now compared to when I made it.

I never saw a deer Sat. morning. They were early getting back to their bedding area and I spooked them on my way in. Was only out for 2 hours...26 degrees here... Got a little chilly in the tree..
 
Hunted a different spot in the evening over a mock scrape(Tink's Buck Lure, Active Scrape). The deer have a 4 foot square area tore up where my scrape dripper is... Saw no deer..Small game hunters didn't help..Sounded like WW3 when the goose hunters fired up at daybreak....
 
The scrapes with the Tink's 69 in it were freshly hit again...I freshened them up might as well finish out the bottle...
 
 
 
 

I'll stick with it too -- I was in NYC this weekend since Friday so I didn't get to hunt unfortunately.  Gonna try some scrapes though as it seems it's been at least getting some good activity even though most seems to be at night. Good luck guys.

didnt have any deer show interest in the special golden estrous every time i used it... i had a spike smell the trail i laid down but just kept feeding through, on the upside it didnt seem to spook deer.