ORIGINAL: mdbohuntr
I have read this thread with with a whole lot of personal believe's, some laughs, and some bewilderment, but I just don't beleive for one moment the above quote was the reason for the game taking off. At a distance of 1-2 miles there would be no scent as it is dispersed and broken up long before it reached the animals. At that distance how in the world would you know what spooked them anyway, could have been an unseen hunter
we were the only hunters as far as we could see
or an unseen preditor or maybe they were even shot at, if the wind was in the right direction you wouldn't hear the shot which it must have been blowing from you to them as it carried your fart to them
I mean come on man, 1-2 miles? geeez.
What he said.
When you are talking about distances of miles there is no way you can say for sure what was the element that spooked them. At that range their field of vision could include entire hills, mountain sides, valleys, brush, woods and maybe even a road or two. They could have been distratcted by anything from a snake or coyote to a limb cracking in the wind or a glare of light in the eye.........hell, maybe one of the Elk farted
