RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

While I agree with your last sentence... I don't smoke around my Loved ones. I go outside. My dad just had surgery to remove a lump from his neck which was cancer. He has 7 weeks of radiation coming up. His sister died of cancer a little over a year ago. His brother has had cancer andwent through treatments. None of them smoked or were around it.

I work on a farm and have been exposed to all kinds of chemicals and fumes from exhaust. Constantly workingwith oil, desiel and grease. Something tells me I am a prime canidate for cancer with my background even if I didn't smoke. I wouldn't bet it will be thecigs that do me in thoughnor will I worry about it.

It is a very stupid expensivehabit though!!

Tim

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

i likes to smoke why i hunt, expecially grass, butmostlyluckystrikes
Deers just like the smell of grass i recon. i know they like eatin it for sure!

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

Get a grip Buster! We can make our own decisions. Poeple buy the farm on roads everyday also! What TJF said if they can smell the smoke they can smell you also.

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

I smoke Menthol Lights. Before, during, and after my hunt. I don't pay particular attention to the wind, since 99% of the places I hunt have swirling winds that constantly change direction. There's NO way to set-up for something like that. You never know where the wind will be coming from, so why bother with it. I smoke less while hunting....maybe 1 cig per hour. I have had plenty of deer within 30 yards while I was smoking. I've had bucks come from down wind just minutes after putting one out. I do stand and ground hunting. I don't know if I'll ever quit, but if I do, it won't be because of hunting.

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

I'm pretty anal when it comes to scent, so, if I did smoke, I wouldn't smoke in the woods. Besides, we wouldn't want to start a forest fire!;)

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

When I posted this I dont remember saying" for smokers only" :D. I can handle other peoples opinions pretty well . And for the record I do not smoke around my family or anyone else who doesnt smoke in respect for there health.
I too know 2 people who were outrageous health freeks and unfortunetly they had cancer. One , is with our maker know . This is America , were we are free to make most decisionson how we want to live .
Whisker Bisquit to Drop aways , carbon to aluminum , smokeing or not , thats bowhunting , so many tunning possibilities.

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

ok i didnt smoke in the woods until this year after a not so productive afternoon i said screw it andgot mycigs out not two min lateri had a 140 class 8 point come in down wind with his head up i watced as my smoke went right to him but he kept comeing in but i blew a 23 yrd shoot and went low but on slowe days i have started smookeing and with in min deer are comeing in to see what it is but this may not workevery where

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

I have personally been on both sides of the issue.I can say that without a doubt,I see more and better deer at closer distances from my stand than I did when I used to smoke.


I personally witnessed a young buck walk up to trail that I saw a person standing on and smoking a cigarette.(I was in a stand 20 yards away)The deer walked up to the spot,smelled the area and turned and returned in the direction he came from.Was it the smoke or the human smell.I don't know but it confirmed that scent is very important.



On another side of the issue.My wife is a surgical technician and is in surgery every day.She told me that she can tell who smokes when they cut them open.She says the smell is immediate.If the smell is in your skin to that degree,what is it doing to the rest of your body/organs and it would make sense that a deer can smell it and eventually if you hunt an area enough,associate it to danger.



On a side note.

I am not in the belief that second hand smoke is nearly as dangerous as the agenda driven surgeon general says.[8D]

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

Igoing too start carrying cigareette butts around with me!

RE: Smoking while hunting???
 

I have a deer picture too put on this site, but it says file to large i guess as for as pixels . Didyou have that problem and if so what did you do, as for as scent, I try my best also to stay scent free!