Well, I was watching some hunting shows on the WILD channel last night and found something that might actually be useful! The show featured directions for making the ultimate deer attractant scent. I'm curious if any of you have tried this, and if you have, if you picked up the tonquin musk and glycerin locally or had to order it online?
1.Cut off the buck's balls, slit and remove testicles and discard any fat.
2.Wearing latex gloves to keep your scent off it, make a vertical slit in each testicle and scrape out the contents, should be about 4 oz. in all.
3.Put the 4 oz. of jam into a clean canning jar, add 4 oz. of 40% vodka, a pinch of salt, then seal the jar and shake vigorously. Feel free to pour yourself a triple vodka coke at this point to make yourself feel better!
4.Put the well-labelled jar in a cool, dark place until next hunting season, to let the alcohol absorb the scent and make a tincture.
5.Add 4 oz. of glycerin and 6-8 drops of tonquin musk, shake, and put into a spray bottle. Spray on hunting clothes each morning of the hunt, it's supposed to attract deer like nothing for sale commercially, especially during the rut.
Well, I know dad and I used to extract the roe from salmon we caught, put it into little bags made of sheer red panty hose, tie it off, and use it to catch our limit of salmon in short order in the old days up north. Probably illegal now, but the natural roe worked SO much better for catching salmon than anything else! Maybe this natural home made scent will also work really well!