ORIGINAL: Kybuckhunter

Stoneman I knew someone would make a comment about hunting dogs. I realize a dog may have better smell but I would say deer are still very close. It's easier to study dogs than deer so more is known about dogs. However a dog and a deer both have a very keen sniffer that's why I am using these fact. Just read this again it would be the same for deer.

Dogs seem to be able to discern a mixture of scents and pull out key traces of compounds of interest to them, and also to follow concentration gradients of the scent molecules. It is estimated that the ability to distinguish between different scents and to pick up scents is about 10,000 times to millions of times better than humans. A typical German shepherd, known to be a top scent tracker has 220 million sensory cells compared with a humans measly 5 million!

All it takes is common sense to show you cant cover your scent. I'm all for keeping clean but cover scent will not work. The scent of the ground is much stonger than the scent of a deer track but they can still smell the deer. Why doesn't the strong smell of dirt not over power the scent of the deer track? Because you can't cover it up.

I also posted the dog facts to show #1 Predator he didn't know as much as he thought and that my facts are straight.