Vanilla Beans as an attractant ?

[customcrester]

I know old time hunters and trappers swear by Vanilla Extract as an attractant and cover sent.I was thinking since Vanilla beans have a VERY strong vanilla sent they might work well as and attractant for deer hunting.Has anyone used them and did they work?

[GREATBROWNKNOCKEMDOWN]

Never used Extract, but used Vanilla flavoring, one year. They smell totally different from each other. Killed 2 does one morning and 3 weeks later a big 8point that followed the Vanilla flavoring that was on my boots right to my stand with his nose on the ground . Shot him at 20 yards broadside . As for the beans i wouldn't know.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Gonna have to plant a vanilla extract tree near my stand  

[YORNOC]

Sounds good!

[Blueridge]

I knew guys who would use vanilla beans in the early 80's.
I never did try it though, so I guess I'm saying " it's been around"

[SERGIO VENNERI]

I don't have any experience with Deer, but i am sure that when i use it Bear hunting I see more Bears and earlier, not scientific however it certainly has been my experience.

[Andy Cooper]

Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
Gonna have to plant a vanilla extract tree near my stand      

C-R! Everyone knows vanilla extract grows on a vine, not on a tree! Sheesh!  :rolleyes:    

[MI_Bowhunter]

I havent tried vanilla but I have heard that Anise Oil works as a cover scent and attractant.

Peanut butter also works but be careful when and where you use it as it attracts other critters as well, both big and small.

[Rick Perry]

in the 80's there was a very popular cover scent on the market called "Cover Up"

 the main ingredient was vanilla ....... I sold a lot of it and a lot a my customers at the time swore by it .

 That is why today I buy vanilla flavoring and put 2 oz in a quart spray bottle and fill the rest with water and spray down with it before I go to the woods .Does it help ? ............. I'm not sure ........... I actually think it does and I have yet to see any evidence that it hurts and it smells better than pee so why not ? ............ LOL .......  

[cnorth]

I have used the vanilla extract many times.. I will get a spray bottle, use half vanilla and have water..Seems to do very good on boots..  i will also spray around my tree.. i have had many close encounters with the curosity of the deers...

[Gatekeeper]

I’ve never tried vanilla beans but I used cotton balls soaked in vanilla and it works for me. In 2009 there was a doe that almost got down wind of me until she hit the scent stream from the vanilla. The smell turned her off her course and put her 12 yds. in front of me. There are only photos of her now.  

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by Andy Cooper:
 

Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
Gonna have to plant a vanilla extract tree near my stand          

C-R! Everyone knows vanilla extract grows on a vine, not on a tree! Sheesh!    :rolleyes:           [/b]

Much like pickles.  LOL

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Originally posted by Mike Vines:
 

Originally posted by Andy Cooper:
   

Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
Gonna have to plant a vanilla extract tree near my stand          

C-R! Everyone knows vanilla extract grows on a vine, not on a tree! Sheesh!     :rolleyes:              [/b]

Much like pickles.  LOL [/b]

LOL.

[yekrut]

I spray my boots with vanilla and the deer, seem to like it I use it as a cover scent. Worked great last year.

[Bladepeek]

I need to try vanilla scent. I used to use anise in Germany. Hung a little tobacco bag with some anise seeds from a tree branch out in front of the tree stand. Roe buck headed right straight to it. Then he walked over to the tree stand and was smelling the ladder where the scent was on it from my hands. A bit too young and foolish to shoot    

[huntnmuleys]

i might be able to sit over vanilla, but the peanut butter??  there wouldnt be any bait for the animals. reminds me of when we were young, at some of the lakes we used velveeta for fish bait.  i was ALWAYS running out lol...

[El gran J]

This is awesome info!!  This is the stuff I like to read about.   Never heard about this, but I'm gonna try it now.

[Stone Knife]

I have used VK and had good luck with that.

[Dirtybird]

There is a guy in a Ohio that sells some stuff called Disappear cover scent.  Interdigital gland and vanilla are the bases for his scent I believe.  Ive had great success with it as well.

[Mike Gerardi]

Or DOC'S "SWEET DEMISE" #7 . Vanilla scented. I have had success late season spraying it from my stand.