Tinks and Buck Bomb?

[DropTine49]

Has anyone used the Tinks #69 Buck Bomb? I plan on using one in the morning and wanted to know if there is anything that I may need to know before setting it off?

[Full_Drawn]

ive been wanting to try it out as well, i use tink's #69 doe urine but thats all ive tried from tinks....let us know what your results are and goodluck

[fladawg]

Just got back from Georgia,while up there i used tink's insent's,no luck with them though....I did spray some code blue doe P on a branch out in front of me before get'n in stand,it stop'd a buck hot on a doe in his track's...His first and last mistake....

[TN Bucknasty]

Has anyone used the Tinks #69 Buck Bomb? I plan on using one in the morning and wanted to know if there is anything that I may need to know before setting it off?

I have a theory about scent lures- they don't work.

I field tested every kind I could find in a three year study conducted during November and the first week of December only (the best period for rut activity in my area). On every other hunt I would put some kind of lure or scent in a square formation around me so that regardless of a deer's direction of approach, they would smell the lure before they smelled me. I had a couple of dogs piss on the lures and once a racoon stole a wick. In three years of testing (60 hunts), the only reactions I got from deer were on two occasions. Once, a pair of spikes sniffed the a wick for a few seconds and returned to feeding. Another time, I poured 4 tubes of dominant buck piss into an existing scrape. A buck came in and cleaned out the scrape. Last year I discovered that human piss works just as well. I've gotten a lot of pictures of deer working scrapes that I started with my own piss.

At the end of my study, I tallied the number of bucks I saw with and without using lures. I saw 60 bucks when using lures and 58 bucks when not using them.

My theory is that a deer's body puts out a cocktail of odors that can't be imitated by a vile or bottle of urine, estrus, etc.

If you want to buy pee, I can sell you some for $4.00 per gallon. I'll even put it in a spray bottle for you. I don't think I can help you with the estrus though.

[jcot2773]

The do work, just depends, used them with great success in Illinois. Had 150 inch buck lip curled up sniffing a scent bomb with some code red doe estrous. Also made a mock scrape with it. Deer were still using it at the end of my 2 week trip. Had a bunch of buck activity with it. Never had any luck with the doe urine or buck urine, but I'm sold on the estrous

[Stickslinger]

I think scents are like game calls, I have deer bust their butt to come into grunts, rattling, etc at times and then sometimes they don't pay any attention to any calling I may be doing. Same has happend with scents, I've made scent trails that deer have followed right where I wanted them to go and other times they have walked right by a scent trail without even stopping to sniff. I think it all depends on the mood of the deer at that moment.

To answer your question about the scent bombs, I don't like to use it all at once, the new models allow you to let out individual bursts instead of all at once. In my opinion when you let out all the scent from the bomb at once it puts to much scent into an area at one time. I know that some people say you have to put out enough scent for the deer to smell, but I think there is a fine line between enough and too much. I would rather error on not putting out enough as opposed to putting out to much which could result in a deer not coming in. Just my thoughts

Rodney

[stcif]

I've used all brands of scents. I've determined they are a waste of my money. The other day I used the Buck Bomb in a can and all it did was scare away a mature doe. I have never had a buck follow a scent drag tied to my boots or a buck come in to any scents I had hanging.

I could have bought some good equipment if I added up all of that money.

[wtnhunt]

I have a theory about scent lures- they don't work.

I have not conducted any extensive testing, but I guess I would have to disagree with this based on my personal experience through time in the field and trail camera activity. Cannot speak for the tinks buck bombs and have had mixed results with tinks 69 as well as other estrous doe scents, but some scents do indeed work well. Think results will vary depending on what type of scent you use and how you use it. Have had pretty good results with active scrape with the way we use it, and will continue to use it. One scrape I started at our camera back at the end of October has seen several different bucks use the scrape and also have pics of them chewing the limb I dipped in the bottle of active scrape, when I get more time I may try to load more pics. Active scrape is pretty reasonable, I usually catch them on clearance at wal mart after season closes or at cabelas and don't usually pay more than $8 for a 4 oz bottle, more often I get it for around $5.

Here is a video from a few years ago of a buck at a scrape dripper that had active scrape in it.

[TN Bucknasty]

I have not conducted any extensive testing, but I guess I would have to disagree with this based on my personal experience through time in the field and trail camera activity. Cannot speak for the tinks buck bombs and have had mixed results with tinks 69 as well as other estrous doe scents, but some scents do indeed work well. Think results will vary depending on what type of scent you use and how you use it. Have had pretty good results with active scrape with the way we use it, and will continue to use it. One scrape I started at our camera back at the end of October has seen several different bucks use the scrape and also have pics of them chewing the limb I dipped in the bottle of active scrape, when I get more time I may try to load more pics. Active scrape is pretty reasonable, I usually catch them on clearance at wal mart after season closes or at cabelas and don't usually pay more than $8 for a 4 oz bottle, more often I get it for around $5.

Here is a video from a few years ago of a buck at a scrape dripper that had active scrape in it.

Ever tried using your own pee to make mock scrapes? I've gotten a lot of pics and video using it. Outdoor life published an article awhile back where they experimented with human and deer urine. They got some pretty interesting results.

My theory about the scraping is that if a deer happens to come by, he is going to investigate a scrape. In order for me to say that a scent "worked", I'd have to see some clear evidence that deer that I would normally never see are coming into view. That's just not what the numbers in my study showed. Perhaps it might be different in other places.

[wtnhunt]

Ever tried using your own pee to make mock scrapes?

Yep, sure have. Have used my own urine for mock scrapes for several years and have shared my experience in regards to that on here as well.

I think the active scrape gets a little better response and also in my experience it kind of gets the bucks a bit more interested in the type behaviour where they are likely to come back than my own urine does, in other words it ticks them off enough to get their interest peaked in what they think is another buck in their area. When we get deer chewing the exact limb I dipped the bottle in, seems kinda obvious the scent is working at drawing their attention even if they are visting that same scrape year after year. Seeing the buck in the clip push the dripper around seems kinda obvious he had an interest in the scent being dispersed, plenty of other trees he could have gone to to rake his antlers on. My point, scents do in fact work.

I will try to load some more pics tomorrow, here is one from back in October. I had dipped the limb and drizzled active scrape right where that buck has his head just a day or so prior.

Perhaps it might be different in other places.

Maybe so, dunno. Seems there are a lot of things we as hunters see that work in some places while others have absolutely no luck with them. I know for fact that minerals work here and that trophy rocks work better than most I have tried, but you can look right here on these forums and see where members have tried using minerals of different types including the trophy rock with no luck whatsoever. I cannot answer why, suspect that has to do with soil mineral content differences.

Kinda like the mention of calling above too, no telling how many deer I have called in with grunting sequences, can call is not really so effective here for whatever reason, but other guys have great results with the can call. Primary response we get from the can calls are curious does. Does not mean that the can call does not work and I would not say it doesn't, just does not seem quite so effective here for calling in bucks as it is in some other parts of the country.

[NC8point]

I agree with mosty with what the others have said I think scents work sometimes and sometimes they don't just like grunting etc. Tinks 69 has worked for me in the past but have better luck with active scrap for the scraps or mock scraps and code blue products for scents.I tried my pee this year for the first time in a are that had three deer scrapes so I peed in one of them just to see it get covered with leaves while the others stayed clean all year, so its kinda like everything else with deer hunting every area is diferent so I would be willing to try the 69 bomb and see if it workd for you