What am I doing WRONG?? Corn & Vanilla?????

[Codie]

I have never hunted a place where "tricking it up" was required. Plain ol' corn has always worked just fine for me. No need to take the chances on what happened to you happening in my opinion. I tried it once a few years ago with the powder stuff that was being sold here on TBH and had the same experience that you just had.

[TrapperTrent]

I put some vanilla corn piles out for the first time the other day and after I checked my trail cameras, the deer were goin crazy over the vanilla corn on the first night and were camping over the piles lol, it may just take em a while to get accustomed to smelling it

[RiverRat1]

Never ever change the smell of an area close to when you want to hunt.

There are no secret anythings to attract deer. Only smells they can get use to that they can smell further away.

[perfectstorm]

Go all natural. Regular corn. Regular plain rice bran. No scents on me. Scent free wash on everything I wear. TBH sometimes gets goofy on wanting to put a magic scent on everything you put out there. I would rather a deer not know I was/am there. Anything that's put out is all natural versions (besides our protein but we have generations of training deer to eat that). I've yet to see regular corn not get eaten.

[BigD]

Becouse they walk by that spot every day and it smells the same then one day Bam strong new smells, which mean something isn't right.

THIS^^

They have to get used to the smell and the taste

[bigjohntex]

Worked for me......

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=554013

[SB09]

New smells they aren't used to will scare them for awhile. It's not an instantaneous thing at all. Imagine walking into your house and smelling something that is out of the ordinary. Aren't you going to be cautious at first too? Just natural instinct.

[hcshooter]

This vanilla craze cracks me up because depending on where you hunt, all it is going to do is push the deer away from that spot.

[txdukklr]

most vanilla posts are a joke but I'm assuming you are serious.

Never change the smell of something in the deers area. About four years ago buck candy was all the rage, I laced some corn with it and the deer avoided it like the plague. Not knowing that was the issue I hand poured regular corn and the deer literally ate all the regular corn and left the deer candy laced corn alone. I ended up throwing water on the deer candy corn and kicking around to get the stuff off. I have on video a massive buck eating every kernel except the laced ones and he's clearly confused as to whats wrong with them.

Plain corn works just fine.

[bwssr]

Need to mix some pea gravel in with it

[DOUBLE.A]

My deer just like corn scented corn. lol Good luck man

[flywise]

Becouse they walk by that spot every day and it smells the same then one day Bam strong new smells, which mean something isn't right.

I don't believe this to be the case. There has not been any vanilla at my place since last season and I had over 20 deer at 10 yds Saturday.
I put it out Friday afternoon at around 6pm and was covered up at daylight sat. morning.

[flywise]

most vanilla posts are a joke but I'm assuming you are serious.

Never change the smell of something in the deers area. About four years ago buck candy was all the rage, I laced some corn with it and the deer avoided it like the plague. Not knowing that was the issue I hand poured regular corn and the deer literally ate all the regular corn and left the deer candy laced corn alone. I ended up throwing water on the deer candy corn and kicking around to get the stuff off. I have on video a massive buck eating every kernel except the laced ones and he's clearly confused as to whats wrong with them.

Plain corn works just fine.

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=553791

[systemnt]

I don't believe this to be the case. There has not been any vanilla at my place since last season and I had over 20 deer at 10 yds Saturday.
I put it out Friday afternoon at around 6pm and was covered up at daylight sat. morning.

Thats different. you have stripper deer.

[flywise]

Thats different. you have stripper deer.