Does Smokey’s Preorbital Lure Work?
You Decide!.
McNicholas produces a series of lures for deer hunting and trapping, including the super Smokey’s Preorbital Gland Lure.
It’s for licking branches above scrapes and as you can see in the video, it’s powerful.
If you’re using mock scrapes or freshening existing scrapes, you absolutely can’t forget about the licking branch.
This identifying combo of scents is the buck’s calling card and identifies it from other bucks.
In layman’s terms, it allows deer to understand their rank in the pecking order.
Before bucks ever scrape the leaves away under a licking branch, before they ever deposit urine on the bare earth, and long before the does come into estrus, the bucks are watching, testing, and paying close attention to one another by depositing scent from their pre-orbital gland to licking branches.
Smokey only uses glass bottles, because plastic tends allow the scent to degrade over time.
All of Smokey’s gland lures will only get better with age.
If you’ve ever wondered how to make the best mock scrapes even better so curious bucks get fired up about them, then take a look at this cool video.
Jeremy James hunts in southeast Pennsylvania and sent this video to our good pal Smokey McNicholas, a professional trapper and veteran deer hunter in West Virginia. McNicholas produces a series of lures for deer hunting and trapping, including the super Smokey’s Preorbital Gland Lure. It’s for licking branches above scrapes and as you can see in the video, it’s powerful.
“I put the Preorbital scent on both of these limbs Monday mid-day and the next morning this is what I had on my camera,” James wrote to McNicholas.
