Have you ever smelled a doe in heat?
Hunted this weekend. Couldn't believe it, but didn't see any deer while on stand. Sitting on the tailgate afterwards having a snack, and there goes a buck. He was nose to the ground and only 30 yards away. We had the music blaring and we were talking full volume, but he didn't care. I grabbed the bow and my bro-in-law got him stopped with a mouth bleat. He got going again and I couldn't get close enough for a shot.
A few minutes later another one goes through the same small patch of woods with nose to ground. I stalk down a trail to where I had seen him, but he had moved on.
Back to my subject. While making my stalk I came through a couple of patches that smelled strongly of typical doe-in-heat scent. I had never smelled it before except in a bottle. If I can smell it, no wonder those bucks were going nuts. Have any of you ever smelled it in the wild?