I have a tree like that on one of the places I hunt
every yr its the same
the past few yrs I tired an experiment
I tried hanging a scent dripper over a limb next to it
I tried all sorts of scents in the dripper, from buck urine/doe pee, doe in heat, flavored scents and about YOU name it, if its sold in a bottle I tried it, been experimenting with it for about 10 yrs off and on
and EVErY SINGLE TIME< I hang that dripper(wear rubber glove boots at set up and its a cleaned and as scent free dripper as possible)
the bucks STOP hitting that tree/scrape, ONLY doe show up
IF I remove the dripper, bucks start to come back after about 8 days?
I tried leaving a dripper there once for 6 weeks say Mid OCt to end of Nov, thinking, well IF does are hitting it, bucks sure to follow them, RIGHT
NOPE< not a single pic of a buck on that experiment!, got tons of pic's of DOE"s peeing in the scrape too!
removed scent dripper and by end of first week in Dec, had bucks back!
NOW dripper was hanging on a hemlock tree, about 4-1/2 ft off the ground, and could barely be seen as cover of pine needles hid it pretty good! as I thought MAYBE it was a visual deal, keeping bucks off
I also thought MAYBE it was they had a stronger scent and were just NOW ONLY scent checking from farther out!
still a possible.
BUT not a single buck worked the scarpe at all, tried this from early Sept or when every I started to see action at the site thru Feb
and IF I had a dripper hanging , NONE would work the scrape
remove it(many times over many yrs now)
and they would return and start working the scrape again??
NOT sure what anyone else reads into this
But I STOPPED using bottled scents and scent drippers based on this study I some what did
and I even tired apple juice in the dripper LOL
so, my suggestion is, DON"T interfere with the natural draw of this site
adding anything mike break them off it IMO>
