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

[flywise]

I am not a fan of vanilla. I have tried it in the past and had nothing but blowing/spooked deer around avoiding me. I think it's a gimmick that I can do without. Some swear by it but not me. If it works post your pictures and I will be the first to admit I was wrong, in your case. Good luck

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

[flywise]

my first year with a recurve bow and vanilla corn

[U.S.ArmyRetired]

my first year with a recurve bow and vanilla corn

Great buck

[flywise]

Great buck

Thank you

[sqiggy]

For What it is Worth

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.

Not really.
For fun, I did 4 test spots yesterday at my place here in E. Tx. Keep in mind also, acorns are dropping here and looks like we have a bumper crop. With that said, when it's like that, it could take up to a couple days before our deer would even touch or find the corn. Anyways, I hand corn 4 places, 3 with vanilla and one without. I did this between 1 and 3 yesterday afternoon. Each place, I took in about 10lbs., give or take. I went thru a whole 40lb bag. Out of the 4 spots, only one has been corned before. It's a stand that has a pig pipe and the last time I put corn in it was about 2 months ago. It only holds about 4 gal, so it gets emptied pretty quick.
Here is how I do it and been doing this for a number of years. When I hunt a new spot, to get it going, I take a spray bottle with half vanilla, half water. On the corn, it can be 5lbs or a whole 50lb bag. I then scatter the corn out where I want the deer. Then, I just spray any plants, like the leaves on a green briar, small sapling tree, etc. I don't put it directly on the corn.
The Results
Spot #1 - Had camera over the area. Deer found it during the night but didn't stay on it all night. Deer came back just after 7 this morning. Stayed about 45 min. Then came back at 9. Could have been same or different deer since they were all slick heads. Left, and came back after 10. They were in and out of it till I walked in at 12 noon and ran them off. I had this camera up for 3 weeks and got more pics in today alone. Oh, corn was all gone.
Spot #2 - No camera here, but corn was 80% gone.
Spot #3 - No camera here. This is the spot with the pig pipe that has been empty for a while. Hunted this spot this morning. Did not see any deer, but corn was ALL gone. I will add this, every time we filled the pig pipe, I also scatter some around. It's always 3 days or later before you notice anything hitting the corn.
Spot#4 - Had camera over the area. This is the spot I did not put vanilla out. All the corn was still there. Checked the pics and the last pic was me putting out the corn yesterday at 2:30.
Anyway, take it for what it is worth!!

[Smart]

You have first got to ease them into the vanilly smell with a setup like this below. Then they will jump on it like stripper for a $20 tabledance.....and smell like it too..

[flywise]

Not really.
For fun, I did 4 test spots yesterday at my place here in E. Tx. Keep in mind also, acorns are dropping here and looks like we have a bumper crop. With that said, when it's like that, it could take up to a couple days before our deer would even touch or find the corn. Anyways, I hand corn 4 places, 3 with vanilla and one without. I did this between 1 and 3 yesterday afternoon. Each place, I took in about 10lbs., give or take. I went thru a whole 40lb bag. Out of the 4 spots, only one has been corned before. It's a stand that has a pig pipe and the last time I put corn in it was about 2 months ago. It only holds about 4 gal, so it gets emptied pretty quick.
Here is how I do it and been doing this for a number of years. When I hunt a new spot, to get it going, I take a spray bottle with half vanilla, half water. On the corn, it can be 5lbs or a whole 50lb bag. I then scatter the corn out where I want the deer. Then, I just spray any plants, like the leaves on a green briar, small sapling tree, etc. I don't put it directly on the corn.
The Results
Spot #1 - Had camera over the area. Deer found it during the night but didn't stay on it all night. Deer came back just after 7 this morning. Stayed about 45 min. Then came back at 9. Could have been same or different deer since they were all slick heads. Left, and came back after 10. They were in and out of it till I walked in at 12 noon and ran them off. I had this camera up for 3 weeks and got more pics in today alone. Oh, corn was all gone.
Spot #2 - No camera here, but corn was 80% gone.
Spot #3 - No camera here. This is the spot with the pig pipe that has been empty for a while. Hunted this spot this morning. Did not see any deer, but corn was ALL gone. I will add this, every time we filled the pig pipe, I also scatter some around. It's always 3 days or later before you notice anything hitting the corn.
Spot#4 - Had camera over the area. This is the spot I did not put vanilla out. All the corn was still there. Checked the pics and the last pic was me putting out the corn yesterday at 2:30.
Anyway, take it for what it is worth!!

Fair test

[KNEE DEEP]

I wouldn't introduce a new smell into the area.Plain corn works for me.I've tried everything,apple,vanilla you name it.Deer in my area didn't care for it.But that's just me,others have had luck with it.Hogs like the smell of the sweet stuff,apple etc but the deer in my area avoid it.

[BAttaway]

I tried this vanilla scent at my lease on opening weekend. I used it on corn and also sprayed it on myself. I had multiple deer walk in from down wind of me, they would raise there nose in the air and sniff but after that they would walk straight to the hand corn I mixed with vanilla instead of the corn under feeder. I also had three different bucks that I had not seen on my camera come into the vanilla corn. I don't know if the vanilla scent helped bring those new bucks in or not, but I will definitely be using vanilla extract mixed with corn on every hunt.

[Pedernal]

With all the vanilla corn craze I just had to try it!! Dang same result as pea gravel, they both hurt my teeth

[Smart]

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

I tried this vanilla scent at my lease on opening weekend. I used it on corn and also sprayed it on myself. I had multiple deer walk in from down wind of me, they would raise there nose in the air and sniff but after that they would walk straight to the hand corn I mixed with vanilla instead of the corn under feeder. I also had three different bucks that I had not seen on my camera come into the vanilla corn. I don't know if the vanilla scent helped bring those new bucks in or not, but I will definitely be using vanilla extract mixed with corn on every hunt.

Not to rain on your parade, but all my deer usually go to my handcorn piles before they go to the feeder corn with just regular corn too. They eat everything outside then go under the feeder. I think they'd rather eat away from the big tall mechanical monster if given the choice.

[U.S.ArmyRetired]

I'm hunting East TX this weekend. Dumped a bag of regular corn in here Friday morning and haven't seen anything.