Hopes for the coming year.....hmm.
I need to shoot GSSF. (joined but haven't shot yet)
I'd like to get drawn for SOMETHING to hunt in AZ. (It would save a costly drive to MN)
Win another Glock from the PVA.
Win the lottery.
As far as using various scents hunting, after observing a lot of deer behavior I no longer use doe scent alone. MN doe in the area I hunt got more skittish and wary downwind of the doe scent and it didn't seem to concern the bucks.
Wildlife Research Center's "Active-Scrape" had a very interesting effect on a buck coming in to check one of his scrapes. 1 drop on his scrape had him REALLY concerned that some other pair of dangling gonads had been messing with it.
Using a cover scent to me is pointless. The deer will smell the cover scent, but they're quite capable of smelling literally everything else too. I use scent free clothes wash, scent free body/hair soap, gun oil with a minimal/no odor and UV Killer.
(IMHO the UV Killer is one of the most important - search
http://www.atsko.com/ for really good info)
The only thing game can't smell is
nothing. So I make that my goal when I'm walking to and sitting in my stand.
Be a no sound, no smell, no movement hole in the woods that emits nothing but 30 cal bullets on command.