Don't laugh but....

The wife noticed in a recent video where biologists were using tampons to hold liquid scent to attract bears. I had to chuckle how she noticed it so quickly while I didn't have a clue.

Not sure how many come in a box, but I'm sure it's much cheaper than anything you can find in the stores that's made for deer hunting use.

It's gonna be fun when you explain using tampons at deer camp!

Makes sense.

Just make sure you get them out of the correct box

They even come with a string that makes them easy to tie onto small tree limbs.

Just better ask first. Otherwise, she might question why or for whom you've been taking them.

I'd bet money that it was a female biologist that came up with the idea. The problem I see is that most of them are scented.

I've used those things for years..............to put doe in heat on

Great idea, never thought of it before, but makes scents! LOL!

X2, this is not new, this idea has been used for quite a few years, at least 30 or more.

Umm...... Nope, I ain't doing it

Sorry to take it to this next level... but I have heard of folks using their significant others used tampons to try and attract whitetails.

I'm not kidding... My jaw dropped.

Call me a crazy, but I am willing to splurge the dollar or two it cost for the normal scent wicks over tampons. That's just me.

Buy scent free super absorbent tampons and get medicine bottles to let them marinate in with doe pee. Not a new development.

Yep that's kinda what I thought. This place has sunk to new lows. Tampons for bait.

Say what u want used kotex pads many times to put on bad cuts on horses and hound. Pads and vet wrap always in the truck box

sounds like it would work well

But let's be honest. How many of us would be willing to put a box of tampons on the checkout counter without a woman present?

Work well for nose bleeds too

You get your wife to buy them Dan.

Doesn't bother me.

I've been married for over 30 years. I'm not ashamed to buy anything. I had to use super Kotex one time when I had a surgery start bleeding from a small artery when changing a bandage. Ended up using almost a whole pack before the ambulance got there. My wife kept handing them to me as one would soak up... sometimes applying pressure doesn't stop bleeding.

I'm reminded how my youngest daughter would only refer to them as "feminine products" when in my presence.

when you do it be careful because those things absorb like crazy! I did it once and stuck it in the bottle and almost didnt get it out!

that's why it's important to get the gentle glide and follow the directions.

Take this topic on a medical tangent for a bit, even if a wound dressing becomes soaked with blood you should reinforce and maintain localized pressure to the source of bleeding. Releasing pressure and removing the current dressing disrupts the clot formation and promotes continued hemorrhaging.

Now back to the topic of hanging "P-$$- plugs" from trees...carry on

I guess the string makes it easier for you to pull them out of your nose?

I wouldn't recommend shoving them that far up there...

This thread is bloody awful.

Could someone start a HF/LF debate, PLEASE.

Something tells me that after starting thus thread, there are women out there who are missing a few tampons from the box they have sitting next to the toilet.

Back when hunting shows where all on VHS, there was one well known hunter that recommended using used "products". I wish I could remember the fellas name, but he was quite common in the early days of hunting shows/videos. I couldn't do it, just EWWW

TREX, I was told by an old welder that the "string" was so you could floss after you ate

exactly.


all tinks was doin was taking them out of the plastic and cardboard and calling them "scent wicks"

if you hunt HF, you don't have to use doe in heat scent or anything like that.

Lots of professional athletic trainers, especially in football and basketball, use tampons to control nose bleeds. Unless the person affected has a really big nose, you can usually cut the tampon in half and make them twice as useful.

also they are good for cuts(pardon the pun) ect, but you won't catch me with one in my first aid kit

I bet the ones with wings adhere to tree limbs better.

Plus if you fall out of said tree, you won't hit as hard with the wings!

Given the amount liquid they can absorb, you would think the scent would be so strong it would alarm deer more than attract them. Still, perhaps such a strong odor would be the thing for food scents.

I hung one up about 80yds from my stand and when the wind swirled from that way I would catch a whiff of it. I don't think it alarms them, I've watched a buck follow a dog in heat.

Me either. They go on the grocery list like everything else. I I'm shopping I get them.

Ok, who's willing to confess giving them a try this season?

Unfortunately (or fortunately in terms of needing birth control), my wife swapped them for hot flashes years ago.

But then, I bet the girls keep a stash in the upstairs bathroom for whenever they're home to visit.

Still, just opening the package of one would seem to invalidate your man card.

I've tried the scent thing, but never had any that I actually thought worked or in which I had confidence. If I was a scent guy, I'd use whatever I thought worked best to get the scent out there, including the TPs. No issues.

Me either! Guys I hunt with wouldn't care either.....

Some of you guys better check & see if your man card has an expiration date on it!

I will use a cpl for my mock scrapes and put cams on them this year just for you, Dan.

Here comes the pun patrol.

NO pics PLEASE!

There it is!!

I don't know whether to laugh or puke....I can just imagine some burly feller in the line at Walmart with 2 boxes of tamps trying to check out without making eye contact.....

I guess I should have seen that one coming.