Speaking of deer smelling you: How does a deer know the difference between your smell when your in there shed hunting or deer hunting? Or the difference in your smell when your in there planting a food plot or in there hunting over the food plot? or the difference in your smell on a trail when your in there in the off-season scouting and when your in there during the season hunting? Or the difference in your smell when your hanging stands 1-2 months before the season and when your sitting in the stands during the season?

It seems to me that if your in there during the off-season doing all of the things I mentioned then a deer would not necessarily associate your smell with danger. And if you have private land and only bowhunt on it then how does a deer even know it is being hunted? Public land and firearms would certainly clue deer in but on private land that is only bowhunted what tips the deer off that your scent NOW means it is being hunted?