So I was watching a bowhunting show the other nite on TV, half asleep, drugged up on allergy meds, eyes hurting from sniffing fletching glue and building hunting arrows............and I caught something on the show that got me wondering.

The guys we're getting set to go out for a morning of wackin' monster bucks on whatever "preserve" they had leased or whatever the story was, and I noticed something about all of them. They all had their camo hunting clothes....in the lodge. Why did I wonder about this? Well, because these guy preach "scent control.....scent control" and a bunch of other bs to us back here in real life, and here they are, standing in smelly house in their duds they plan on wearing to the treestand.....to kill a mature, huge buck. Not to mention, they hopped in their smelly trucks, drove to the spot, then hopped on a stinky quad and rode to their treestands. Now I'm smart enough to know that wind direction plays a huge role in how things play out for you in the woods, that's a no brainer, but seriously, it's become second nature to me(from reading tons of hunting literature, and personal experience) to NOT wear my bowhunting duds in the truck, in the house etc. I put 'em on before I leave for the tree. If I have to ride a quad, I at least try to put my outer layer on after I'm done riding.

Now all this thinking going on my head the other nite, made me wonder3 things:

1. How far do we really need to go to fool a deer's nose ?? And how good are these scent eliminating/containing products? The direction on the clothes say "put on downwind of vehicle" right ??? These dudes didn't, and they wacked some hawgs.

2. How good of hunters are these "TV PRO BIG BUCK KILLERS" ??? Are they really really good, or only as good as the property they lease, and the guy who grew the deer ? I'm not conviced these guys are GOOD myself. They know how to shoot, I'll give 'em that, but can they HUNT.

3. What happens in a deer's head when they whiff a human ????? It's not like they think words in english and say to themselves "oh no, there's a human in this oak flat, I better get outta here now!!" and run away. They can't think, they only react to instinct and conditioning right ?? The does don't tell the fawns "smell this footprint, stay away from that, it'sa man, he'll shoot you!" I think I've convinced myself that deer have no idea what a human odor is, or where it comes from. We all smell different I'm willing to bet. So learning millions of different people smells and memorizing them would be impossible, let alone determining which ones are good with a bow or not . I think that deer just simply pick up an unfamalier odor, and react accordingly to avoid it. This goes for deer in the wild. We've all seen pics of people petting deer and that business, so I'm a believer of the "wrong odor, wrong place" thought process. Deer aren't used to our odor in the woods, so they react accordingly to avoid it. However, I do believe they can associate us with danger, and maybe death, as I think animals in general can sense death of another animal, and if our odor is in that area, or they see us, there ya go.......they are conditioned to avoid it. Does that make any scents ??

So this lead me to think, that maybe, if all of us spent all year in the woods, would the deer get used to our odor, and no longer be afraid of us ????? Could we get a 150" buck to eat an ice cream cone out of our hands all summer, on public hunting grounds, then put and arrow in him the first day of bow season ??? [&:]

Should I be put in a padded cell ???

I'm gonna go finishbuilding my arrows now.....and eat some ice cream.