Seriously, who would buy this????

[AntlerCollector]

I wonder if putting up my wife's artificial Christmas tree will draw em in? Hmmmmm

No that's a Christmas tree-coy. It will only attract mature reindeer

[rtp]

The biggest gimmick I ever saw was a thing called the Hunting Buddy. It was a dummy that looked like a hunter. You put it in your stand when you were not there so the deer would get used to seeing someone in the tree. They advertised in a few mags but they did not last long.

The ones they probably did sell where to the folks wanting to cheat and get in the HOV lanes.

[AntlerCollector]

[QUOTE=M.E.B.;8962854]

The biggest gimmick I ever saw was a thing called the Hunting Buddy. It was a dummy that looked like a hunter. You put it in your stand when you were not there so the deer would get used to seeing someone in the tree.


When I was a teenager I hunted from a ladder stand. I hung an old pair of camo coveralls from a limb above my seat. It looked like a hunter standing there in the stand. I left it there a month before the season. I only removed it when I hunted. I could move quite a bit without the deer paying much attention to me at all. I guess they got use to the coveralls moving in the wind.

[txhoghunter73]

Same folks that buy Ozonics, scent-Loc, and C'Mere Deer.

As I have said a 100 times before, hunters are worse than women with their beauty products. 99.999999% of us would kill just as many deer with a pawn shop 30-30 shooting 150gr Co-lokts while wearing a jeans and a flannel shirt as folks that spend 3 months pay on the coolest hunting gadgets money can buy.

But it's funner to spend al your money))) jk... I'm tryin to get out of the habit. I bought some of that primos swamp donkey instant mineral for like 14.99 and the only thing eating it is a d a m n porcupine. That was probably the last first time product ill buy!

[elkbowhunter]

[quote=AntlerCollector;8963170]

The biggest gimmick I ever saw was a thing called the Hunting Buddy. It was a dummy that looked like a hunter. You put it in your stand when you were not there so the deer would get used to seeing someone in the tree.


When I was a teenager I hunted from a ladder stand. I hung an old pair of camo coveralls from a limb above my seat. It looked like a hunter standing there in the stand. I left it there a month before the season. I only removed it when I hunted. I could move quite a bit without the deer paying much attention to me at all. I guess they got use to the coveralls moving in the wind.

HA!!! the hunting buddy?? oh man!

[RascalArms]

I got 2 when I joined Buckmasters. Jackie Bushman swears by them. Fill out this form if you want to hear from them[ATTACH]645055[/ATTACH]
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That's down right cruel!

[Humper]

I searched the web and found this....

"Artificial tree and base with that can be easily assembled at any location in a minimal amount of time. Simply cut some limbs from nearby trees and install them in the strategically placed limb holes. Provides whitetails with a real licking branch and scrape location wherever you want it. Can be placed in openings, food plots, and crop fields."

So it's more for setting up a scrape in a preferred location...... Anyone here ever made a mock scrape?????

While at first glance it looks stupid, the premise may have some merit.

But of course I own an ozonics for my blind and an ozone generator to descent my sitka gear and kuiu hunting attire

[adam_p]

I see this as less of a gimmick than all of the "attractants" out on the market.

Id bet I could get bucks scraping under it.

Still wouldn't buy it.

[mchildress]

How often do the directions say you have to water them?

[AntlerCollector]

At best it may work as a mock scrape, but I doubt it because its a dead limb! Give it a couple of days and when a buck rubs it crack! Goodbye dead limb

[gigem95]

[quote=AntlerCollector;8963170]

The biggest gimmick I ever saw was a thing called the Hunting Buddy. It was a dummy that looked like a hunter. You put it in your stand when you were not there so the deer would get used to seeing someone in the tree.





When I was a teenager I hunted from a ladder stand. I hung an old pair of camo coveralls from a limb above my seat. It looked like a hunter standing there in the stand. I left it there a month before the season. I only removed it when I hunted. I could move quite a bit without the deer paying much attention to me at all. I guess they got use to the coveralls moving in the wind.

I think this one may just work. I remember an old man in east texas who had a box stand on a food plot and kept a dummy head with a hat on a broom stick in his stand when he wasn't hunting.

[w1987l]

This is almost worse...the HECS Suit to block your bodies energy from the deer...

http://www.hecsllc.com/

[Zen Archery]

They'll make a good blind and break up your pattern! Thx for the lead. Heading to Gander now!

[tex4k]

Y'all can laugh all you want, but when you come out here to my little piece of heaven you'll be paying me money to rent these little jewels!

[PYBUCK]

The biggest gimmick I ever saw was a thing called the Hunting Buddy. It was a dummy that looked like a hunter. You put it in your stand when you were not there so the deer would get used to seeing someone in the tree. They advertised in a few mags but they did not last long.

I know a guy that did this with an old store mannequin. He wore glasses so he even went as far as to put an old pair of glasses on his. He said it worked.