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A bull in the rut can cover dozens of kilometres in a night looking for a cow. Why would he stop on your ground?
You invest in a quality attractant to get the hunting results you want. What you are missing is the right way to put it out. Soaked into a tampon, most of it is gone in a few hours, during the day. At night, nothing left. RutDrift holds it in a reservoir, sheltered from the rain: your precious attractant is never diluted. It is released at a steady rate, through its wicks, for several days. The bottle has no smell of its own, and neither do the wicks: the animal smells only the attractant you chose.
Washable and reusable, season after seasonPatent pending
Do not let them go to waste on a tampon, where drizzle and rain dilute them and the sun wears them down. In RutDrift, your attractant stays sheltered from rain and sun, in its reservoir: it keeps its strength down to the last drop.
The most common rig in the woods
A soaked tampon tied to a branch starts from a decent idea — I did it myself for years (see Why I made RutDrift). But a tampon is designed and sold to capture a liquid and keep it away from the air, precisely so that it gives off no smell.
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Put plainly: a tampon is an excellent product — for soaking up a liquid and keeping it from smelling. You are asking it to do the opposite of what it was made for. Read the guide: why your attractant doesn't last →
Before RutDrift, I also tried the rigs you see in the woods to shelter the tampon: in a cut-open jug, in a bottle with its bottom cut off. Same problem every time.
You cut a window in a jug and slip a tampon or a rag inside. It is a little more sheltered, but it is still a tampon: dry in a few hours, to be re-soaked morning and evening. Air only gets in on one side, through the window, and rain coming from that side gets in too. And to refill it, you pour into an opening that was never made for it: splash on your gloves and your sleeve.
You cut the bottom off a bottle and hang a tampon inside, out of the rain. But it is still a tampon: it holds the scent instead of releasing it, and it is dry in a few hours, to be re-soaked morning and evening. Every refill means taking the tampon out, re-soaking it and putting it back: splash on your gloves. And tucked inside the bottle, it is not exposed to the open wind: the scent only gets out at the bottom, instead of carrying far.
Frequent refills, splash on your gloves and your sleeve, scent that does not carry: every one of these variations was tried, and they all keep the tampon's flaw, holding the scent instead of releasing it. RutDrift was born from that: a reservoir that keeps your attractant sheltered, wicks that release it day after day, slots all around so the wind gets through from every side, a cap chimney that breathes, and a funnel to fill it with no mess.
The felt wick you dip has the same flaw as the tampon, and it matters more than everything else: every morning you handle a strong-smelling product, site after site, one wick at a time. The bottle rides in the truck, and the truck remembers it until the next wash. And what you loaded in the morning fades through the day — strong when you leave, faint by evening, gone the next day. Wind and rain finish the job.
RutDrift is the opposite: a steady scent, day after day, sheltered from rain and sun. You fill it once, on site, in the woods — not before: the bottle stands on its base, the funnel reaches below the slots, you pour without touching, and close it with the ratchet cap. A resealable freezer bag for transport, and nothing smells in the car.
2026 season · Quebec
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Saint-Maurice wildlife reserve, in Mauricie, Quebec. Public land, where the moose that walks past you also walks past every other party: you have to give him a reason to stay.
Six RutDrift dispensers were set along the trail at the edge of the territory, then left to work on their own. The trail camera recorded it all: a cow comes right up to the dispenser and stays beside it, with no wariness toward this other cow, a rival.
The bull stayed on the ground instead of moving through it. In the morning a simple social cow grunt was enough: he came down off the mountain.
Taken cleanly, a few hundred metres from where the bottle was hanging.
One season, one bull. That is not a guarantee, it is what happened.
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A homemade rig is an open jar or a rag on a branch. Both fail for the same reason: whatever lets the scent out also lets the rain in, and whatever keeps the rain out smothers the scent.
RutDrift separates the two. The slots sit under a hood that overhangs them, flanked by two cheeks, and they angle downward. Rain hits the hood and runs off outside. Air still gets through: it enters by the lower slots, crosses the bottle and leaves by the cap chimney, which has a roof of its own.
The result: your liquid is not diluted and does not flash off on the first sunny morning. It leaves through the wicks, a little at a time, for several days.
And it still works on a dead-calm day. A closed container waits for wind; the chimney cap makes its own draft. The sun warms the air inside the bottle, it rises and leaves through the top, which draws fresh air in through the lower slots. And the heat never builds up under the cap: the chimney lets it out as it forms, along with the vapour, instead of leaving it to sit around your attractant.
The synthetic pheromones now added to attractants are fine, highly volatile molecules. Heat and sun drive them off first and break them down faster, which is why makers recommend keeping their products tightly closed, cool and out of the light. In RutDrift, your attractant stays in the shade inside the reservoir, and the chimney lets the heat out instead of letting it build up.
Filling, with no mess
❄️ That level hole is a deliberate overflow: it keeps you from overfilling your RutDrift and leaves room above the liquid. Liquid expands as it freezes: it has the room to do so without cracking the bottle.
Nothing runs out the sides: no attractant on your hands, your gloves or your bag. The scent stays in the bottle, not on you. The steps in photos →
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Dip the corner of a paper towel in a glass of water: the water climbs on its own, against gravity. That is capillary action. A wick is thousands of tight fibres with thousands of tiny channels between them. The liquid clings to the fibre walls harder than it clings to itself, so it climbs. The narrower the channel, the higher it goes.
That is the whole mechanism behind RutDrift. The reservoir is sheltered from wind, rain and sun — but sheltered liquid gives off nothing. The wick is the only path between your protected liquid and the moving air: it draws it from the bottom up to the neck, where it offers a large wet surface to the draft. Without it, the bottle would just be a jar with holes in it: the liquid would sit at the bottom, far from the slots.
A wick does not wear out, it clogs. Your attractant is not just water: it carries salts, proteins and other residue. The water evaporates at the tip of the wick, everything else stays behind and crystallises in the channels. Like an oil lamp wick, it eventually stops drawing. The fibres also pack down through cycles of drying and rewetting: after a long stretch of hunting, a fresh set gives your RutDrift its full output back.
The field test: an hour after filling, the bit of wick sticking out of the neck should be wet. If it stays dry, or if the strands are stiff and crusted, the wick is no longer drawing: change the set. In practice: a fresh set at the start of the season, a fresh set when you switch attractant — the old scent stays in the fibre — and a fresh set after a long stretch of hunting. With a natural attractant, which leaves more residue, that comes sooner than with a synthetic lure.
We sell the replacement wicks, so let us be straight about it: a wick that still draws does not need changing. Replacement wicks →
An original design, built for the woods. Patent pending.
*1Four wicks sit at the bottom of the reservoir and draw the liquid up to the neck by capillary action. A large surface of wet wick in the wind instead of a tampon lying at the bottom of a jar. No fragrance, no antibacterial.
*1Wind crosses the bottle side to side. Each slot sits under a hood that overhangs it, flanked by two cheeks, and it is angled downward. Rain stays out, even when the branch swings.
*1Warm scent-laden air rises and leaves through the central chimney, under a roof. The cap screws down through a ratchet that clicks.
*1Its long tube reaches below the slots: the attractant goes straight to the bottom of the reservoir, never onto your hands or your bag. Included in the kits and the accessory set. See the filling →
What is in the bottle, and what is not
A moose reads a scent trail from more than a kilometre away. If your bottle smells of plastic, he knows before he even smells your scent — and he knows someone has been through. Ours smells of nothing. That is not luck, it is where the whole design starts.
Leave a cheap plastic toy on a car dashboard in the sun: it stinks. That is the plastic letting go of its chemicals the moment it gets warm, and a moose smells it from a lot farther than you do. The material in our bottles was chosen precisely because it does not do that. It is a food-grade, odourless material, the same kind as your water bottle. Warm or cold, it stays silent. The only smell on your site is the one you poured in.
A factory container is often two pieces glued together, plus a rubber washer so it closes. Glue smells. Rubber smells — it is the single worst foreign odour on store-bought containers. Our bottles come out as one piece, no glue, and the cap screws down tight with no washer. There is nothing in there that can smell of anything but your attractant.
Ordinary plastic turns brittle as glass below freezing: one frosty morning, it cracks on the first knock. Our material keeps its strength in freezing weather. And it is black for a reason, not for looks: black blocks the sun. Plastic that cooks all day in an open clearing ends up smelling of hot plastic, and that smell mixes with yours.
None of this shows. It all serves one thing: that the bottle adds nothing to the attractant you invested in.
Prices in Canadian dollars. Shipping by Canada Post, Intelcom or another carrier depending on availability, estimated in the cart from your postal code and the parcel's weight. Free over $80. Minimum order $20: replacement wicks and accessories are add-ons, so you never pay more for shipping than for the product. Scent is not included: the bottle works with liquid attractants for moose, deer and bear, natural or synthetic.
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Everything you need to get started: the bottle, the filling tools and the wicks.
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One more bottle, for another spot.
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Two spots, with the filling tools.
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Three hunting spots, three bottles.
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Three hunting spots, one set of tools.
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Fill without a mess and seat the wicks at the bottom.
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No sizing, no fragrance, ready to fit.
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On a trapline, lure is the most expensive thing you carry by the ounce, and it is the first thing to vanish. Hung out in the open above the set, it takes the rain, dilutes, and there is nothing left when you come back around three days later.
RutDrift works as a long-distance call lure. You hang it above the set, it keeps working while you run the rest of your line, and your lure stays sheltered in the reservoir instead of drying on a stick.
RutDrift runs for several days on one fill. That is a full circuit of a trapline without having to freshen the scent at every visit.
Marten, fisher, fox, coyote, wolf, beaver, mink. It works with the gland lures and natural attractants sold by trapping suppliers, and with synthetic lures just as well.
*1Five minutes per fill. Natural or synthetic attractant for moose, deer or bear: any commercial liquid attractant. The same steps apply when you change the wicks.
*1The knot of the wick goes to the bottom: hook it in the fork of the pusher tool.
*1Push the tool to the bottom of the reservoir, then pull it out while holding the free end of the wick. It comes back out through the neck.
*1Lay the free end in one of the 4 notches of the neck. Repeat for all 4 wicks: one wick per notch.
*1Fray the end of each wick: hold it and undo its twist counter-clockwise, until all the strands are separated.
*1Before screwing on the cap, press the strands flat against the rim of the neck with your fingernail: they are the tiny tubes of your capillary pump.
*1The 4 frayed wicks form a crown all around the neck.
*1Hold the wicks flat against the rim and push in the tube of the included funnel: it reaches below the slots. Pour your favourite attractant until the level hole, under its little hood on the side of the reservoir, starts to weep: that is a full tank, nothing to measure.
*1Pull the funnel out and store it in a resealable bag, ready for the next fill. The wicks stay in place around the neck.
*1Screw the chimney cap down until it clicks against the stop: it pinches the strands and holds them. You are ready: hang your RutDrift from a branch on your hunting spot with the cord provided, 1.5 to 2 m up, upwind.
Unscrew the chimney cap and pull the old wicks out by their end: the knot comes back up through the neck. If you switch attractant, rinse the bottle with hot tap water, no soap. Then start again at step 1 with 4 fresh wicks. When to change the wicks →
A few-dollar dispenser that smells of rubber or hot plastic can drive your game away and waste all your preparation, and the trip for everyone. RutDrift was designed and tested by a hunter, for hunters, on real hunting ground before it went on sale.
Not all dispensers are equal
You can find dispensers online for a few dollars. From a distance, they look like RutDrift. Up close, it is a completely different design, and four details change everything.
To make the cap close tight, this kind of dispenser uses a rubber O-ring. And rubber smells. If your nose can pick it up, a moose, with a sense of smell stronger than a customs sniffer dog's, will pick it up too. RutDrift is odourless by design: the cap stays shut with a ratchet, no gasket at all.
The top is solid: no chimney. In the sun, hot air stays trapped under the cap, right against the gasket, and the rubber smells stronger and stronger. Meanwhile your attractant spoils: the heat drives off the scents that attract first, and a natural lure turns to ammonia, like something left out in the heat. If your attractant contains synthetic pheromones, they are the first to go. What is left is a sharp, rancid smell that can end up driving away the very animals you wanted to bring in.
The bottom is rounded: the bottle won't stand up. You fill it on site, with cold hands, and over it goes… Every hunter who has handled attractants knows how that ends: splash! On your gloves, your sleeve, your pack. RutDrift has a wide, flat base that stands up on its own, and the funnel is included.
The reservoir is pierced all around and nothing guides your attractant. You pour it in from the top and, at the slightest angle, it runs back out of the side openings: onto your gloves, your hands, your bag. A scent you then carry everywhere you walk. That's why RutDrift invented its pouring funnel: its tube reaches below the slots and delivers the attractant straight to the bottom of the reservoir. Clean, efficient, no mess. See the filling step with the funnel →
Your hunting trip deserves better than a few-dollar dispenser. RutDrift was designed and tested by a hunter, for hunters, on real hunting ground before it went on sale. Patent pending: a patent application has been filed for the invention.
No. The bottle works with whatever liquid attractant you like, bought wherever you like: a natural or synthetic moose or deer attractant, or bear attractant in spring. You can switch products with the season — but change the wicks at the same time. The old scent stays in the wick: a moose would smell your April bear attractant under your September moose attractant. A set of wicks takes two minutes. Replacement wicks →
Yes. The bottle holds up to sun, frost and attractants. Every slot is sheltered by a hood and two cheeks, and the cap chimney sits under a roof, so rain stays out. For freezing weather, an overflow is built into the design: the bottle never fills to the brim. Water expands as it freezes, and it has the space to do so without cracking your RutDrift. Between seasons, empty it and store it away from frost: no bottle survives endless freeze and thaw cycles.
Yes, it is on purpose! Your RutDrift weeps: the base of the bottle has deliberate micro-cracks that let your attractant out very slowly, drop by drop. Your spot is marked twice: in the air, through the wicks and the wind, and on the ground, right where the animal walks and puts its nose.
In these photos, the paper towel under the bottle is soaked after a few hours.
Weigh your RutDrift now and then to know whether it is still full, and top it up with the funnel as needed: that is how you get the best results. Good hunting!
Because a store sponge smells like plastic and soap to a moose. The wicks have no sizing and no fragrance. They carry the liquid all the way to the top by capillary action.
The thread ends in a ratchet built into the base and the cap. You hear it click as you screw it down, and it takes the same effort to turn it back.
Every part is built to order, one at a time. Count 3 to 6 business days before it ships, plus the carrier's estimated transit time.
Because I am not a web giant. We have all gotten used to free shipping, but it does not really exist: someone pays for it. Big online stores negotiate volume rates nobody else gets, often deliver through their own network, and fold the cost of shipping into the price of their products. You pay for it anyway, even if you live next door to the warehouse.
I am a small business. Every parcel costs me a real carrier rate, which depends on your region and the weight, and on a small order, shipping weighs heavily next to the price of the products.
Rather than inflating my prices to hide that cost, I show you the shipping price in the cart, worked out from your postal code, and I look for the best rates I can get from carriers. And from $80, I pay the shipping: an order that size lets me absorb it. You pay a fair price for your RutDrift, and you see the shipping price before you pay. Shipping, returns and warranties →
Black: it holds up best in the sun and it warms the most, so it diffuses the best. The colour of the wicks and of the hanging cord may vary from one lot to the next.
It is built to last: you wash it and use it again, season after season. A rinse in hot tap water, that's it. Never in the dishwasher: the heat of the drying cycle can warp the cap threads. And never scented soap — the bottle and the wicks keep the soap smell, and that is what the moose would smell next. If you must use soap, pick one with no fragrance and rinse twice. The wicks are not washed: they are replaced. Replacement wicks →
Because the reservoir is not what makes the scent strong. What goes into the air is what evaporates at the tips of the wicks — and that depends on the wick exposed and the wind passing over it, not on how much liquid sits below. A big bottle lasts longer; it does not smell stronger. And even if you make it stronger, scent thins out fast with distance: four times the source carries barely twice as far. Above all, a cow does not emit like a factory. One unnaturally strong point of scent is exactly what makes a mature bull swing wide. Three bottles spaced along his route are more natural, cover more ground, and if one runs dry the other two are still working. Large formats exist for people who cannot come back often — trappers most of all — not to build a scent bomb.
What you find comes in two families. On one side, devices that let the attractant fall to the ground, drop by drop: fine for a deer scrape, but the scent is on the soil, it does not carry on the wind. On the other, dip wicks — the felt in its little tube, the tampon in its container — that hold what they soaked up and are dry in a few hours. RutDrift does something else. The wick drinks from the reservoir and lifts the attractant, like a pump with no motor, up to the slots, which are sheltered from rain. The cap is open and breathes, under a hood: air passes. And when the sun warms the black bottle, the warm air rises and leaves through the cap, which draws fresh air in through the lower slots — the scent is pushed out into the wind, morning to night, for days. A reservoir, a wick that pumps, a chimney. That is the difference between a steady scent for days and a few hours of scent. Moose move at night: if your site smells of nothing by midnight, why would he stop on your ground in the morning? With RutDrift, it is still working when he comes through. See the Saint-Maurice harvest →
Picture a hot glue gun guided by a computer. The machine melts the material and lays it down in a thin bead, one layer on top of the other, following the plan with great precision. Each layer arrives still hot and welds to the one below: they fuse together. No glue, no screws. In the end, the part is one solid piece.
This is no gadget. Concrete houses are built this way today, one layer at a time, and rocket engines printed in metal have flown to space. The principle is the same: build the part layer by layer, where a mould cannot go.
For RutDrift, it changes everything. A factory mould has to open to let the part out. With a hood over every slot, cheeks on each side, a chimney under its roof in the cap and a ratchet in the thread, the part would stay stuck inside: you would have to make it in several pieces, then glue or assemble them. And glue smells. 3D printing builds those shapes in one piece. It also lets us improve the design from one batch to the next without remaking a mould, and build each part to order, here in Canada. It is what let a hunter with an idea turn it into a real product. Why the bottle has no smell →
The trade-off is visual. Because the part is built layer by layer, you may see fine lines on the surface, a small seam along the bottle, now and then a wisp or a speck of material, or a spot that looks more matte or more glossy. That is the signature of the process, like the grain in a board of wood. These small imperfections are visual only: they change nothing about the quality or the function of your RutDrift. A part with a real defect is another matter: write to us, your legal warranty applies. Shipping, returns and warranties →
No. RutDrift is a protected invention: a patent application has been filed (patent pending). Your RutDrift is yours: you use it, lend it, give it away or resell it as you wish. What is not allowed is reproducing it: 3D scanning it, deriving files or plans from it, or printing, moulding, having made or selling more of them. It is in our terms of sale, which you accept at checkout, and RutDrift will enforce its rights. Got an idea to improve it? Write to me: that is how RutDrift moves forward. Protected invention →
“Patent pending” means RutDrift's patent application has been filed and is being examined. The invention is protected from the filing date: that is the date that counts, and anyone who reproduces it in the meantime may have to answer for it once the patent is granted. Once granted, the patent then protects it for up to 20 years from filing.
For you, nothing changes: your RutDrift is yours. What is not allowed is reproducing it, and RutDrift will enforce its rights. Protected invention →
Yes. Think of the card terminal at the corner store counter: you put your card in the bank's machine, and the clerk only sees “approved”. It's the same here. When you click “Checkout”, you land on Stripe's payment page (the address starts with checkout.stripe.com, with the little padlock). That's where you enter your card, and it travels encrypted, straight to Stripe and your bank. Your card number never goes through RutDrift.com and we keep no record of it: we just get “paid”, with at most the card type and its last 4 digits, like on a receipt.
Stripe is one of the biggest online payment platforms in the world: millions of businesses use it, from the small shop to the giants of the web. It is certified at the highest security level of the credit card industry (PCI Level 1), it screens every payment to block fraud, and your bank may ask you for an extra check. And as with any card purchase, if someone used your card without your consent, your bank protects you. Stripe's website ↗
And RutDrift? It's a small local business, started by a hunter. What we get from you — your name, email, phone and shipping address — is only used to send you your order, your invoice and your tracking number. We keep it encrypted, we never sell it, and we erase it automatically a few months after your order; only the invoice is kept, as tax law requires. A problem? Write to us at info@rutdrift.com: your legal warranty and our return policy apply. Privacy →
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It will, however, work just as well with your favourite scent attractant for bear hunting — with a fresh set of wicks.
Made by a hunter, for hunters
I have hunted moose and deer for more than fifteen years. My father passed it on to me — the frosty mornings, the silence, the call you send out hoping for an answer.
Over the years I understood one thing: scent decides everything. A moose does not come because you call well, he comes because your ground smells like a place he wants to be. And on public land or in a reserve, that ground is not yours: he passes through. It all comes down to preparing the site. Ideally, the sector should smell right before you have even set up; if not, do it on the first day, as soon as you arrive.
For years I did what everyone does: a tampon, a rag, a jar. It dries in a few hours, takes the rain, smells of plastic. And above all, you handle it every morning: product on your hands, on your clothes, the bottle rolling around in the car — a smell nobody at home would put up with. I spent my mornings freshening scent instead of hunting, and my trips home cleaning the whole inside of the family car to get the smell out.
RutDrift is what I would have wanted to buy and could not find. The funnel is included, the base is wide and stable, you fill it on site without spilling — once, for several days — and you hunt. When the hunt is over, you rinse the bottle in hot water, throw out the wicks and store it in two resealable freezer bags. That's it. With fresh wicks, you are ready for next season, or for the next species you are after. I designed it, built it, tested it on my own ground, and reworked it until it held up in the rain, day after day. Then I filed a patent application to protect the invention.
If you have a question, write to me. I am the one who answers. Contact us →
— Michel
In the field
RutDrift on real hunting sites, and what the hunters who use it have to say.
“It's easy to pour, and it smells all day long.”
“Finally, something that protects our investment in quality attractants.”
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