text: deer hunters help plz! am thinking of making my own scent to bag my deer this year.? i have been hunting most of my life and know that when using a food scent try to use ones that are not readly avaliblae to the deer in the area you are hunting. so i am planing on using apple and cinimon is there any other that yall think might be usefull to me. my property has lots of acorn and walnut and clover but not much else. any advice? two years ago i read on a hunting site the same question you are asking, a hunter wrote that he had used apple juice for years, he put it in a spray bottle and spayed around his stand, and on his clothes and boots, i swear, the deer came right up within shooting distance..you could see them sniffing for the apples.