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09-14-2007 | 06:09 AM

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Killer_Primate

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RE: smelling deer

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ORIGINAL: LebeauHunter

This summer I went out to a foodplot in the woods to recharge a mineral lick, you could pretty
easily smell the deer odor or at least that it what it seemed like (bovine) and we don't have cows
or elk and there was plenty of deer sign.

So when its hot and they've been bedded down or hanging around in an area a while, I'm sure that
there is plenty of scent. But on the move I don't see them leaving much of a scent trail for a human.

I don't know that it would be much of a hunting tool, but you are pretty extreme KP.

As far as “hunting tools” go, I really can’t think of a better one. My thoughts are; suppose you’re hunting a square piece of property, some swamp some field and some hardwoods. The wind is coming out of the north at a steady 5mph. If you walked the southern boundary slowly, paying close attention to smell and there was a group of deer bedded down in there, you may get a sniff of them. And the wind will tell you where they are. Now you just need to figure out how to get there quietly with out getting up wind of them. Seems to me like a great plan, if you can get your sniffer to cooperate, which is why I mentioned spicy food. Maybe a small amount of cayenne pepper on the tongue every thirty minutes or so would do the trick. I just know that during the scouting I smelled them played the wind and found them. I’ve smelled them in the woods many of times but usually after I’ve bumped them before I’ve seen them I imagine. I’d just like to reverse the scenario. I have two new properties to hunt this season and I’m going to be on the ground. I’m going to give the sniffer thing a try.

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