Home Brew Tarsal Gland Scent

I found this online and it sounded interesting. Sorry it has a picture on it, I couldn't delete it. I may have to try it if I bag a nice buck this year.

Here's a simple recipe using tarsal glands. The first step is to select the tarsal glands. You can use doe or buck glands depending on what is available and the lure you wish to make. It's a lot easier to find tarsal glands from a buck that are full of rut scent than it is a doe because does are in heat for such a short time.
If I were making a buck tarsal gland lure, I would select glands from a mature buck that are as full of musky, rut smell as possible. To select doe tarsal glands, be sure to take them from a doe in heat. It's easy to tell when a doe is in or is coming into season just from her tarsal glands. If you notice the tarsal glands of most does that you see, they are white. However, as a doe is coming into heat, she will pee down her back legs and onto her tarsal glands. As she does this, the glands become dark and smelly and the doe then leaves her scent signal through out the woods as she travels. As soon as she has been bred, she will lick her tarsal glands clean and white again. If you or a buddy takes a doe with dark tarsal glands, take advantage of your good fortune and make some of your own lure! If you can't find what you want that way, try checking out the deer waiting to be processed at the local butcher. Ask nicely, and they'll likely let you help yourself to a gland or two. Step 1:

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

you to

add

other ingredients.

The scent will

improve

as it ages until

season.

Keep your lure cool and dark and the alcohol will preserve it indefinitely.

You can use this lure straight but most lure makers wouldn't consider tarsal gland tincture to be the final product but rather more of an ingredient in a more complex or matrix lure.
Mixing a half ounce of your tarsal gland tincture, a half ounce of a quality buck urine, a pinch of salt (to preserve it) and a teaspoon of tonquin musk.
Other common lure ingredients are:

your favorite doe or buck urine

other gland tinctures - see below

scents like anise, tobacco, vanilla, beaver castor, etc.

Keep it simple, it's best not to go off the deep end and have a dozen or more ingredients. Don't use up your whole batch of tincture on one lure.

Make small batches of an ounce or two. If you're going to add urine to your lure, it's a good idea to throw in a pinch of salt to help preserve it. The salt won't affect the odor.

There are a number of glands on a deer that can be used to make excellent tinctures that you can use on their own or as an ingredient in a lure. For example:

Inter-digital gland: This is a gland from between deer's hooves. It secretes a musky scent that deer use to identify and track each other. One batch of this tincture will probably last you the rest of your life because you use so little of it at once. It is thought that a large amount of this scent is perceived as a warning by deer and will spook them off so, just use a few drops in an ounce of lure. This is a good ingredient to include in a scent you're going to use to make scent trails. To get to this gland you cut off the leg of the deer at its first knuckle. Stand the leg end so the hoof is pointed up.

Put a big,

heavy knife between the two hooves, push down

and split the leg in

two halves. Just above the

hoof, you'll

see

a small

gland with a paste

substance in it that you have cut in half. Scrape out

the

paste

from both halves

with a

clean

knife. Don't get any blood or fat or

any

other crap in it. Repeat for all

the legs.

Place the

bits of

paste

a super

clean jar and cover with alcohol.

When the mixture has aged for a couple of months in a cool dark place, add an equal amount of glycerin.

Forehead gland: This is a lure you would use on licking branches above scrapes, on scent posts, and rubs. The main ingredient is the dark patch of fur on top of a buck's head. That fur is full of oils and scent and bucks rub it on branches to leave their scent signature behind.

Cut around the

dark patch and skin off the top of the buck's

head. You can just use this

part

or add in

the

pre-

orbital

glands that

are found in the corner of their

eyes and/or the saliva

glands which

lay on

either side

of the

buck's neck

just

below the jaw bone. The pre-

orbital

and saliva glands should be cut

into a few pieces.

Just as with

the other formulas above, be

super clean,

cover the glands with

alcohol and store in a cool

dark

place

for

wo or

three

months. When

it's done, take out the glands, squeeze out as much

of the

alcohol as

you can

and

discard

the glands.

Add an equal amount of glycerin and age till next season.

Testicles: This is a good ingredient in lures but it also works well just mixed with tonquin musk. Cut the balls out of the buck's sack and discard the sack.

Cut the balls into a few small pieces, cover with alcohol and store in a cool dark place for two months or so. When they've soaked long enough, pull out and discard the pieces of testicle that remain. Add an equal amount of glycerin.

Here's a simple recipe using tarsal glands. The first step is to select the tarsal glands. You can use doe or buck glands depending on what is available and the lure you wish to make. It's a lot easier to find tarsal glands from a buck that are full of rut scent than it is a doe because does are in heat for such a short time.
If I were making a buck tarsal gland lure, I would select glands from a mature buck that are as full of musky, rut smell as possible. To select doe tarsal glands, be sure to take them from a doe in heat. It's easy to tell when a doe is in or is coming into season just from her tarsal glands. If you notice the tarsal glands of most does that you see, they are white. However, as a doe is coming into heat, she will pee down her back legs and onto her tarsal glands. As she does this, the glands become dark and smelly and the doe then leaves her scent signal through out the woods as she travels. As soon as she has been bred, she will lick her tarsal glands clean and white again. If you or a buddy takes a doe with dark tarsal glands, take advantage of your good fortune and make some of your own lure! If you can't find what you want that way, try checking out the deer waiting to be processed at the local butcher. Ask nicely, and they'll likely let you help yourself to a gland or two. Step 1:

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

you to

add

other ingredients.

The scent will

improve

as it ages until

season.

Keep your lure cool and dark and the alcohol will preserve it indefinitely.

your favorite doe or buck urine

other gland tinctures - see below

scents like anise, tobacco, vanilla, beaver castor, etc.

Keep it simple, it's best not to go off the deep end and have a dozen or more ingredients. Don't use up your whole batch of tincture on one lure.

Make small batches of an ounce or two. If you're going to add urine to your lure, it's a good idea to throw in a pinch of salt to help preserve it. The salt won't affect the odor.

Put a big,

heavy knife between the two hooves, push down

and split the leg in

two halves. Just above the

hoof, you'll

see

a small

gland with a paste

substance in it that you have cut in half. Scrape out

the

paste

from both halves

with a

clean

knife. Don't get any blood or fat or

any

other crap in it. Repeat for all

the legs.

Place the

bits of

paste

a super

clean jar and cover with alcohol.

When the mixture has aged for a couple of months in a cool dark place, add an equal amount of glycerin.

Cut around the

dark patch and skin off the top of the buck's

head. You can just use this

part

or add in

the

pre-

orbital

glands that

are found in the corner of their

eyes and/or the saliva

glands which

lay on

either side

of the

buck's neck

just

below the jaw bone. The pre-

orbital

and saliva glands should be cut

into a few pieces.

Just as with

the other formulas above, be

super clean,

cover the glands with

alcohol and store in a cool

dark

place

for

wo or

three

months. When

it's done, take out the glands, squeeze out as much

of the

alcohol as

you can

and

discard

the glands.

Add an equal amount of glycerin and age till next season.

Testicles: This is a good ingredient in lures but it also works well just mixed with tonquin musk. Cut the balls out of the buck's sack and discard the sack.

Cut the balls into a few small pieces, cover with alcohol and store in a cool dark place for two months or so. When they've soaked long enough, pull out and discard the pieces of testicle that remain. Add an equal amount of glycerin.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

you to

add

other ingredients.

The scent will

improve

as it ages until

season.

Keep your lure cool and dark and the alcohol will preserve it indefinitely.

your favorite doe or buck urine

other gland tinctures - see below

scents like anise, tobacco, vanilla, beaver castor, etc.

Keep it simple, it's best not to go off the deep end and have a dozen or more ingredients. Don't use up your whole batch of tincture on one lure.

Make small batches of an ounce or two. If you're going to add urine to your lure, it's a good idea to throw in a pinch of salt to help preserve it. The salt won't affect the odor.

Put a big,

heavy knife between the two hooves, push down

and split the leg in

two halves. Just above the

hoof, you'll

see

a small

gland with a paste

substance in it that you have cut in half. Scrape out

the

paste

from both halves

with a

clean

knife. Don't get any blood or fat or

any

other crap in it. Repeat for all

the legs.

Place the

bits of

paste

a super

clean jar and cover with alcohol.

When the mixture has aged for a couple of months in a cool dark place, add an equal amount of glycerin.

Cut around the

dark patch and skin off the top of the buck's

head. You can just use this

part

or add in

the

pre-

orbital

glands that

are found in the corner of their

eyes and/or the saliva

glands which

lay on

either side

of the

buck's neck

just

below the jaw bone. The pre-

orbital

and saliva glands should be cut

into a few pieces.

Just as with

the other formulas above, be

super clean,

cover the glands with

alcohol and store in a cool

dark

place

for

wo or

three

months. When

it's done, take out the glands, squeeze out as much

of the

alcohol as

you can

and

discard

the glands.

Add an equal amount of glycerin and age till next season.

Testicles: This is a good ingredient in lures but it also works well just mixed with tonquin musk. Cut the balls out of the buck's sack and discard the sack.

Cut the balls into a few small pieces, cover with alcohol and store in a cool dark place for two months or so. When they've soaked long enough, pull out and discard the pieces of testicle that remain. Add an equal amount of glycerin.

As soon as possible after the kill, remove and protect the tarsal glands by freezing them until your ready to start making the lure. Cut through the skin around the tarsal gland in a circle about the size of a silver dollar. Then free the tarsal gland by slicing through the membranes and such below the skin. Do not touch the tarsal glands with your bare hands. Use rubber gloves throughout the process so you do not contaminate your lure with human scent.
Put the tarsal glands in a super clean glass jar and add enough high proof vodka to cover them and seal it up good. It should take 4 to 6 ounces of alcohol for two tarsal glands.

Put the jar in a cool,

dark place and

let them

soak

for at least two months.

When enough time has past, put on

rubber

gloves,

remove the glands and

squeeze out

much fluid

as you can

back into the jar.

Now discard the tarsal glands you have sucked as much of the scent out as possible already.

You now have a tarsal gland tincture.
Step 2:

Add an equal amount of glycerin by volume to your

tincture.

The

glycerin

will hold and bind the scent and will

allow

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