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bamaranger · November 29, 2010, 01:23 AM

I fooled w/ Tinks for awhile, and had a degree of success in the hill country of AR in the Ouchitas, where deer numbers were low. If you found a scrape line, and watched the wind and hunted accordingly, a buck would usually cruise by if you could spend enough time on it.

But here in AL the deer numbers are much higher, as is the degree of buck sign, and hunting scrapes has been no where near as good a tactic for me as it was in AR. Seems to me like a buck did not have to work scrapes as much for some "action". Enough does were concentrated of food sources especially at night, that a visit there (I thought anyhow) would turn up a companion pretty easily. I switched to hunting does (to see bucks) at food sources and trails to and from same, and my success went up dramatically (well till the last two years anyhow)

I got sick and tired of the darn deer stink in my truck, on my clothes etc, as I always seemed to have a bottle leak. I don' miss fooling with the stuff at all!!!!

November 29, 2010, 01:23 AM	#11
bamaranger Senior Member Join Date: October 9, 2009 Location: North Alabama Posts: 8,308	used to I fooled w/ Tinks for awhile, and had a degree of success in the hill country of AR in the Ouchitas, where deer numbers were low. If you found a scrape line, and watched the wind and hunted accordingly, a buck would usually cruise by if you could spend enough time on it. But here in AL the deer numbers are much higher, as is the degree of buck sign, and hunting scrapes has been no where near as good a tactic for me as it was in AR. Seems to me like a buck did not have to work scrapes as much for some "action". Enough does were concentrated of food sources especially at night, that a visit there (I thought anyhow) would turn up a companion pretty easily. I switched to hunting does (to see bucks) at food sources and trails to and from same, and my success went up dramatically (well till the last two years anyhow) I got sick and tired of the darn deer stink in my truck, on my clothes etc, as I always seemed to have a bottle leak. I don' miss fooling with the stuff at all!!!!