I think it is tough for us to grasp just how good the olafactory senses of a deer (or any number of mammals for that matter) are. For example, we don't think about it that much but even the common cow has an amazing sense of smell. I have watched them follow my rubber booted steps through the woods to my treestand. In this neck of the woods they get desensitized to humans from birth and we take that desensitivity as stupidity (but that is another story). A deer on the other hand has to be able to survive by itinstincts and senses.Theseskills are honed everyday from birth to death. Is it anywonder that it is difficult to get within bow range of a mature buck.

For what its worth my experience mirrors Greg/Mo's. I have been trackedin knee high rubber boots on more than one occasion. I also have been ignored in "leather" boots, but have been "tracked" with them as well.

I remember one hunter telling the story of how his eyes were opened to the fallacy of total scent control in rubber boots when he stuck his grunt call in thetop of his snugrubber boots as he went to his stand. Every step he took the call sounded off.... Where do you suppose those molecules go when they come out the top of the boot? Further we haven't even begun to talk about the microscopic skin and dust molecules that fall from our bodies as we walk through the woods or sit in the stand.

I agree that a person takes all the precautions they can; but nothing is fool proof.