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FirstFreedom · July 20, 2006, 10:52 PM

OK, I was planning this weekend on making some scent spray from evergreens native to the area where I'll be hunting (you strip some cedar leaves, boil it down, run it through a paint strainer, then put it in a spray bottle - my buddy does this). But my question is this - the cedars down there undoubtedly smell natural to the deer, in general. BUT, there's only a few of the cedars, and they are only found up on the upland area. There is a creek bottom/floodplain however, where I do most of the hunting, and it's a couple hundred yards from the nearest cedar. So my question is, are the deer smart enough to distinguish, when down in that bottom, if they smell my cedar cover scent, that this is out of place for THAT specific area, or will they just smell the cedar and 'think', "Oh, that's natural." ??

July 20, 2006, 10:52 PM	#1
FirstFreedom Junior member Join Date: May 31, 2004 Location: The Toll Road State, U.S.A. Posts: 12,451	Yet another of my dumb questions re scent control OK, I was planning this weekend on making some scent spray from evergreens native to the area where I'll be hunting (you strip some cedar leaves, boil it down, run it through a paint strainer, then put it in a spray bottle - my buddy does this). But my question is this - the cedars down there undoubtedly smell natural to the deer, in general. BUT, there's only a few of the cedars, and they are only found up on the upland area. There is a creek bottom/floodplain however, where I do most of the hunting, and it's a couple hundred yards from the nearest cedar. So my question is, are the deer smart enough to distinguish, when down in that bottom, if they smell my cedar cover scent, that this is out of place for THAT specific area, or will they just smell the cedar and 'think', "Oh, that's natural." ??