ORIGINAL: Diesel77
Why do some of you guys say to "wait a few days"or"let things settle down"before hunting these stands? Because you think the deer are spooked becausethey have never heard unusual noises or smelled human scent and he's wasting his time hunting there because NO deer will move through any of these now scented up areas for a week/2 weeks(heck, I didnt even know deer could keep track of time, very intersting stuff), and if he waits a few days he will have a better chance at seeing deer? Or, will they just forgot they smelled him after a week or 2 and then its okay to hunt?
Maybe, if he goes back and sits in one of his 7 stands he will ruin the hunting in the entire areafor the rest of the season because the deer will not return if they smell his scent one more time?
Or is there another good reason I havent thought of? If the deer that live there smelled his scent already, do they leave the area for a few days and come back when the "coast is clear" sign is given? Or do they bed down and move only at nights for 1 week or 2 weeks or something that I havent read studies on when they get a whiff of human scent??
I wouldconsider most good huntersuse scent control the best he/she can whenever entering hunting areas and if this gentelman put up 7 stands he obviously is somewhat dedicated, right? So, if he hunts there the next day using scent control, rubber boots etc, he wont see any deer correct, or he will further ruin his hunting location??
Fill me in, I'm curious to hear your answers.
Touche - If I was pumped about it, I'd hunt there tomorrow. I hunted every morning and evening since Friday. Every time out of the woods I was spooking deer in the same spot. Put up a stand, and they came through last night. In three days I spooked them 4 times in the same spot and they came through a 5th time while I was in a stand and watched them. Even when they are not there, I have to cross their trail to leave the woods and "leave my scent"....but they are there again the very next day.