I just quit smoking butts after 20 years. This is my first deer season tobacco free. I have killed plenty of bucks and two awesome brutes. In all those years I had only 3 occasions where I saw deer bust me because of the smoke. I have countless times been smoking, seen a deer, put the butt out and taken the deer. Who knows how many I never saw though, even though I always pay attention to the wind.

This yearwithout tobaccoI have seen more deer and more bucks at this point in the season than I have in any previous season.The deer that have gotten really close/under me this year came in not as nervously as previous years. Coincedence? The jury is still out...