Here is a good one for you. I know you should not smoke when you hunt, but do you think deer can tell if you are chewing??

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I think they may be able to when close in like 10 yds or less.I think they would be very cautious....Might be risk...

a friend of mine smoked for years( most of the time befor and after hunting),he quit and started chewning bubble gum.the deer will blow and leave every time he put some in his mouth.so if the smell bubble gum,why not tabacco??

I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest

remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.

Ram, I started bow hunting a few years ago, and have always chewed when on the stand. Really don't think it affects things much. Took a doe last year at 8 yds. Then again, maybe I could be seeing more deer if I wasn't chewing?!! Just my 2 cents.

i think the temperature factors in. ive been winded only a few times and it is always in warm weather which could have some sense.
maybe im nutz, but i think they can smell better in warm weather than in the cold. ever notice how a dirty car smells fine on a fourty five degree morning when you get in but stinks when its seventy degrees when you comehome from work? aLSO, I chew and have not been winded due to it. including last weekend when there were 6 deer within 5 yards and downwind.

If you can make it thru a hunt without chewing it would probably be best. I chew, and I'm not sure if it effects deer winding me, but I know for sure that it doesn't help. You have to way out the consequences, getting winded by deer, or having withdrawl symptons twenty feet up in a tree.

I can only go by my own experiences while hunting on this one. I have bowhunted for 29 seasons now, this one will be number 30. For the first 12 seasons I would not chew until I was out of the woods, for fear of it spooking deer. About 17 years ago, I had already tagged out on a nice buck, so I was doe hunting and thought, heck with it and put a cheekful of beechnut in. I had deer all around me that day, and they never reacted to the chew. Well, 17 years later, with over 50 more big game kills, including three record book whitetails, I have had a chew in for every one of them! And I do spit the juice all over the ground. Maybe I am just lucky, I don`t know.

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New Stanton,PA

I think if they can smell you smoking or chewing, they can smell you with nothing in your mouth. The best way is hunt the wind. I know guys who pee in bottles and spit their chew in pop bottles corking it everytime while on stand. However i have a buddy who has killed some great animals and he just hawks it where it lies...so I am not sure it really matters, if you use the wind in your favour.

I spit right off my stand and have yet to have a deer spook because of it.