| Millions of hunters enter the woods and farmlands | | | | acorn flavored attractant on top to help insure |
| each year in hopes of harvesting a trophy | | | | whitetails will find it and keep coming back. |
| whitetail deer. From the last day of the hunting | | | | My favorite time to use food-flavored attractants |
| season until the opening of a new season, hunters | | | | is during the summer and into the fall. I have |
| dream of that huge buck of a lifetime. Hunters | | | | increased the number of pictures I get on my |
| read different hunting magazines and whitetail | | | | scouting cameras immensely. Suddenly, I am |
| books looking for information and tips to improve | | | | getting pictures of bucks that I have never seen |
| their odds of success. They also watch numerous | | | | before. With more bucks coming into your area, |
| hunting shows on television and DVDs to learn | | | | the chances of seeing a trophy buck increases. |
| new hunting methods and feed their obsession for | | | | The best part is the ease of this method. I simply |
| giant whitetails. | | | | put out corn and pour the attractant over it and |
| The use of whitetail attractants to improve | | | | set up my scouting cameras. With the pictures I |
| trophy whitetail success has become increasingly | | | | can figure travel patterns and decide which |
| popular. This simple process has proven to attract | | | | mature whitetail bucks I will attempt to harvest |
| more whitetail deer. There are many different | | | | during the upcoming season. |
| attractants on the market to choose from. Liquid, | | | | During the hunting season I still use the |
| gels and powders are a few of the forms that | | | | food-flavored attractants. I put them on scent |
| attractants come in. With a little research, picking | | | | wicks or pour them over stumps near my blinds |
| the attractant that suits your needs is easy to do. | | | | or tree stands. Both bucks and does will still come |
| The use of liquid attractants is by far the most | | | | to them during the early part of the season. As |
| popular method used by hunters today. The two | | | | the season progresses and the rut comes around, |
| most common are deer urine and food-flavored | | | | the bucks main concern will turn from food to |
| liquids. Deer urine comes in a couple different | | | | impregnating as many does as possible. I use this |
| types, doe, estrous doe, buck and dominant buck. | | | | to my advantage by putting out food-flavored |
| Make sure you are using the right type of urine | | | | attractants to draw in as many does as I can, |
| for the time of year you will be hunting. For | | | | knowing that a trophy buck could wander by in |
| example, you do not want to use estrous doe | | | | search of does at any time. |
| urine before the pre-rut. Using this early will put | | | | As the season comes to an end and winter is |
| deer on alert that something is not right. | | | | near, mature bucks are feeding as much as |
| I prefer to use liquids that smell like the food that | | | | possible to put some of the weight they lost |
| deer crave. This type of attractant can be used | | | | during the rut back on. Once again a food-flavored |
| any time of the year. You can pour it over corn, | | | | attractant will help entice a trophy buck and |
| grain, protein pellets, minerals, stumps, near food | | | | increase your odds for success. I believe a |
| plots, or even on scent wicks to attract more | | | | food-flavored attractant is the most versatile and |
| whitetail deer. During the winter and spring I like | | | | helpful attractant a hunter can use to accomplish |
| to put out corn and protein pellets to help the | | | | their goal of harvesting a trophy whitetail deer. |
| deer survive the cold winter, and gain some of | | | | Before using whitetail attractant's become familiar |
| their weight back in the spring. I pour a fruit or | | | | with your states rules and regulations. |