Kevin -

I can't be too carefull!

See, I never took it seriously till this year. For the past previous years I've always hunted with a hunting party that we drive out woods...the (easy) way.

So I'm determined to do this by myself this year. What's different about me is that I'm deaf. I've always relied on movement in the woods. No sounds. I can't hear anything, sure I use hearing aids, but still can't hear anything well at all, can't hear birds or natural sounds..like squirrel chipping or (walking sounds) from deer like my friends tell me. So I just got this phantom whitetail buck call. It's got digital sounds that you press on this small box like a remote control, and sounds like deer rattle, 3 different types of grunts, doe bleats, dissrest calls, ground scraping, deer step sounds. Nice thing about it, you can make multiple sound together too.. Never used it yet. But I'm very excited to try it out and see what happens.

And you can see why I'm going a bit (Overboard) with trying to eliminate any human smell from me. I want deer come to me without winding me. So, picture this...a deaf guy like me sitting, looking hard everywhere for movement, odd shapes or anything out of ordinary, making sure you move slowly your head, keeping quiet..not know if you're breathing too loud, etc.
And most of you guys can hear sounds that would make you look in the direction where the sound comes from, like a deer walking into your area, not me. Gotta look hard. Telling myself to look behind myself every 5 minutes..everything is just new to me.

So...ha ha.. I can see what you're saying "what's that smell" That's a good one!

I haven't gotten coon piss yet. Should I get it? Would that spook the deer a little bit? Sure we get coons in our area. Wasn't sure weather or not to get the coon piss. Was thinking about putting some doe in heat piss onto my boots and walk on to the stand, putting some tarsel glands 30-40 yards downwind of me along with some more doe in heat wicks.

What do you think?

macintosh