Thanks for your reply Fieldmouse.

Glad it wasn't my calling that spooked him. What are your exact tactics when using a call? Like, how many times do you blow it how often...and then how do those tactics change once a deer is sighted?

Before we go out again, we are going to have to take our scent cover more seriously. During gun season, I did the whole scent thing...washed all my clothes with scent-free soap, used scent neutralizer, and cover scent. I had two deer walk five feet away from me outside of the blind...with my scent blowing right at them. You could tell that they smelled something, but they didn't seem overly concerned and started to munch on the green wheat. That's when I dropped one of them.

I don't know how I'm going to get my clothes washed this time though. Our dryer is out of service and it's too cold do dry stuff on the line. If by chance we get a warm spell, I still couldn't dry them on the line because of the smoke from our woodstove...it'd smoke 'em up. Would that scare the deer or work for a cover scent?