How do YOU attract deer?

[btroj]

I find the best way to attract deer is to hunt squirrels. I have had more deer close me while hunting rats than I ever have during deer season.

Oddly I see more rats during deer season......

They know

[CTI1USNRET]

I attract deer by hunting for hogs.

[country gent]

Seems my Thunderbird convertable is a great attractant for deer in the evenings. I drive down the road and they want to jump out in front of it to see it. Ohio deer look really big when your looking up at them.

[Iowa Fox]

Hmmm...let's see....I spent about $80,000 and several years worth of toil to take what used to be a 23 acre farm field of bare dirt and convert it into a spruce/grass/shrub laden oasis. I am surrounded by a near desert of harvested crop fields come season so my little island is a good place for them to stop, eat and rest a bit....most spend their time here unmolested, but the ones I want to shoot rest in pieces in my deep freeze. In a food rich environment a bedroom is what they seek more than anything else apparently. I sit above the bedroom in an elevated treestand or my "shack" and wait til I find one I want. Wandering around hunting in this area will get you trespassing charges or a bullet depending on where you wander.

I did the same thing and planted an apple orchard on it also. Starting in September every year the does move in for the wind falls and by October here come the bucks. We are actually overloaded with them last summer they would get on the front porch and eat my wifes flowers.

[crowbuster]

Near as I can tell, planting a garden and the simple act of cutting wood has always brought deer in hoards for me, only if you have no weapon with you of course

[jaysouth]

Plant azelia next to the house, corn in the garden and flowers in the yard.

[abqcaster]

[mikeym1a]

A shower and some aftershave usually help...........................

[ratitude]

Sit in somebody else's tree stand. Last year I took one out of my dad's stand and two within 45 minutes of sitting down in my brother-in-law's stand. It was a great year.

[Socal147]

Other
Take my brother out hunting. The deer know he is a terrible shot. LoL

[AZ-JIM]

Easiest way I have found to get into deer is go out in the woods out of deer season.

az-jim

[nanuk]

My buddy hangs his gun over by a tree, sits down out of reach, and lights a smoke....

deer materialize everywhere...

too bad I don't smoke, so I usually put on too much AXE-Chocolate, eat a garlic sausage sammich, and a couple pickled eggs before heading out..... the "Natural Scent" usually gets 'em running if the AXE won't work

[str8shot426]

Here in WI, buying a new car seems to work well. You will have deer right in front of you within the first week!

[HollowPoint]

Questions;

In those states where baiting is illegal, would a ghillie suit made from alfalfa or corn stalks be enough to fall inside the law whilst still potentially attracting deer to some extent?

Just wondering.

HollowPoint

[Garyshome]

Anything my wife buys from a nursery seems to irresistible to the whitetails. Usually the most expensive plants go first.

[Ken TN]

I will agree that a new car is the best. After 20 years of doing insurance claims I have seen to many cars that deer ran into the side of.
These were not hit by the car, the deer ran into them.
My best set up, Red Mustang Convertible, Loud Exhaust, with Dealer plates still on it parked in a clearing. The convertible top allows you 360 degrees to protect your car from the crazy deer coming in to hit it.
Whoever said deer were smart needs hang out at a body shop for a few days and watch the damage that comes in from deer.
PS watch out for Moose they do even more damage...

Ken

[bearcove]

I have found they like the smell of beer. Just drop 2 empty beer cans below your deer stand. Smoking is not advised!

[tuckerdog]

I used to carry a bunch of stuff into the deer woods but now simply wash clothes in baking soda and store in soil and leaves from my hunting area and use about 1 tbl spoon vanilla extract with a pint of water (seems to bee a curiosity scent)as a cover scent. I practiced bleats and grunts using only my mouth and voice. seems to work quite well.

[winelover]

By digging in my boolit berm! Couple of hours, after sieving lead, 5 deer came out of the woods, and made a bee-line right to the berm. Two stuck their noses right in the freshly overturned sand. I believe they were bucks, I could see what looked like the dark spots where antlers were, before they shed them.

Winelover

[Cmm_3940]

Baiting on private land is legal in Ohio. ODNR says they don't care because it has been scientifically proven to be ineffective. oooooookayyy....