My hunting partner, who's been begging to drink the High Lifes I don't drink, told me about these. Anyone try them.

I think they're the best thing I've used in bow hunting since my spray bottle.

Bowmania

You can't see the wick in that picture. It's there. In this pic you can see it to the right of this bucks nose.

Here's a different spot. Wick is pretty clear.

Another spot.

This guy is headed to the wick in the last picture.

There's a wick right over this guys left shoulder. He was all over on trail cams and only seen once.

Believe it or not I almost pissed on this bucks head. THe one on the right of course. And then got real excited because I had something in my hand instead of my bow. When I got the bow in my hand I couldn't believe he was still there. At a wick not pictured. My shot was good except for the bow in my hands. Shot right over his back with Hex 7.5's, instead of the longbow I've been using for 9 years.

I didn't think he was this big until I recognized him in this picture. I could only see his right antler and thought he was probably a 4X4. Missed that little sticker and what ever is on his left. Turn out I was glad I missed. I saw three other good bucks of which the smallest was 150ish and I saw him twice. Third time if 50 years of hunting I didn't kill anything. It was a very good year.

Bowmania

Those are some nice deer! They seem like they definitely like it. Where do you get these?

Those are some nice deer! They seem like they definitely like it. Where do you get these?

Are these the wicks you make by pulling a cotton rope through a piece of PVC?

If so, I've used them. They work pretty good too, which reminds me, I need to build a few.

Rick

Yup They work.

How do you make these wicks if you don't mind me asking? Thanks!

I think if you go on The Brothers of the Bow website they might still have the article posted where Gene explains it. It basically is a piece of rope(hemp) and you fluff the end a bit, doctor it up with your favorite preorbital scent and hang it from a tree like a licking branch.

Take a used tampon, keep it in a plastic bag in the freezer when not in use. Works well. Pretty disgusting I admit but it works. I think the Wensel's mentioned it back in the 80's when they did a lecture at Creekside Gun Shop, many years back

longbow1, wow, Creekside Gun Shop, a name out of my past. They used to sell Bighorn recurves. Are they still in business. Yes, I remember Gene talking about using tampons. Shick

Wow creekside gun shop, they took alot of my money! Sadly they closed years ago, don't know why.

Yep closed many years ago. I remember a gunsmith in there whom shall remain nameless that scared the shite out of me and everyone else. I went in to get some tapered and compressed ramin wood shafts back from the head honcho of the archery area. Seems one of the gunsmiths absconded with them and Wayne the archery area guy was hesitant to ask the gunsmith for them. So I was kind of pissed and said gunsmith was working on an older 45/70 rifle single shot or rolling block type action. The gs had it loaded for some reason and all of a sudden BANG, that thing went off and right through those paper thin walls into the indoor firing range. That was scary.

Asbell at the time was a pretty good friend to Wayne and I was a very very good customer to both! But because Wayne and I became friends and he was working with G Fred on a longbow for BigHorn at the time I got to get in on some of the "local" testing for proto type longbows. I was a Hill style fan at the time and frankly am now but that was fun and a great learning experience. I also owned maybe the first bamboo and juniper bows Craig Ekin built. He had the first one and I had the second or so he said. Killed a few deer with that bow. keepem sharp

It's as mentioned untreated hemp. Other hemp is treated with some type of chemical to foil deer hunters, LOL. Wensel's directions use 3/4 inch (?), but that's pretty expensive. My Miller stealing hunting partner got a spool of 1/4 inch and the first one's I put out we braided. THe last ones, were just four strands with an over hand knot tied on each end.

Then I used tie raps to attach the hemp to the branch. With about 6-8 inches hanging down. You can see in the second picture there maybe 18 inches hang down. That's from the bucks working it over. Does visit also.

The fifth picture didn't have a branch at the height I wanted it so I took some cord and pulled the branch down to the height I wanted and tied it off.

The spot where I missed the buck didn't have any branches around. So I cut a branch and tie wrapped it to a tree where I wanted it. IT was not a good system for durability. They hit the branch so hard that I usually had to readjust the height. I have to think of another system to attach it to the tree. Nails might work, but I don't want to use them if I don't have to.

Smokeys has a package of scents for about 50 bucks. It's three bottles, one for the branch (hemp), one for the scrape, and one for rubs. We always used the first two, I don't know how it would work with just the orbital scent.

Once we moved a treestand from a food plot to where there was rut related travel trails. I put out a wick and we went back to the cabin. We had finished about noon. In the cabin we were talking about where to sit. There weren't may option due to an odd wind. I said that I was going to sit the stand we had just put up. I got there at about 1:30 and the scrape all ready had tracks in it.

It's nice to have a hand rake for the ground. Plus needless to say use rubber gloves.

Bowmania

I've used the lil white hangers that Walmart sells and they work also. About anything will work. It's the scent and the the wick that attracts them.

Awesome stuff Todd

Very interesting for sure and I had to Google hemp rope. I found a site that says natural, untreated, no dies or chemicals. Not terribly expensive when you break it down by the foot and compare to the commercial wicks. I'll be trying it out this fall for sure. Thank you for the tip.

https://www.rawganique.com/organic-hemp-rope-cords-s/118.htm

Thanks for the info!

I’ve shot two of my best bucks with their noses on a estrus soaked tampon

Yea I'd say a tampon would work well also.

This buck thought so :)

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Whatever you use please take it with you when the season is over. Between these felt scent thingys and spent handwarmers the woods is starting to resemble a dump:(

I have another trick, that I use, and it works pretty good,,, I use a glandular paste, of possum and weasel, but you can get a gland paste from trapping supplies.......

I like to put it on a nice size boulder, in the area I am looking for a shot,,,, I scent post it up,,,,,

every animal in the woods is going to piss on it,,,,, when a buck comes thru there just like your dog, got to go over and whizz on it,,,, that short pee break, may give you a shot,,,,,

I never whistles at them or make any noise, because I believe a nice buck, if stopped and missed or something, he does not forget that.... I may be wrong, but that is what I think....

Never been a camera guy, but I now have 6 and some shoot video so I will use that this season,,,,, for fun

I like the hemp rope idea, read about that awhile back, my friend in MI uses it, and likes the method,,,,, I use clean tampons, for lure application that is what the string is for, but will try the rope this year

also I do not use a deer scent lure, but I use a curiosity scent gel, used for trapping sets, that they really like,,,,,,,,,,,

nice photos Todd

Some suggest an improvement is to tie lock the hemp rope to an equal piece of branch because the deer like a harder thing to rub against. I think a guy could just cut some branches of about a foot long and smash the end with a hammer and scent that end or smash the end and tie lock a felt strip you can get at hardware stores. Many other potential versions. Perhaps the coolest idea is how to position a tree or even a wood post with small limb branches attached in the exact spot you want as a mock scrape.

Nice buck, JP!

I cut soft cedar, lay it horizontal wired between two trees, and put mock scrape at end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they like working that sap

The key to this system that my miller swilling hunting partner is talking about is what is on the wicks, not just the wick itself. It is a preorbital lure, not a doe in heat type scent. They will use it all season long, you are training them to come to your own personal licking branch. It works amazing as Todd and I found out, they hit it so soon after we establish them is is unreal. Look at the pics on the BOTB website, unreal stuff. Our place does have a ton of bucks, I am sure that is a factor.

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