people scent
 

Say, I was wondering what you guys think of this , I hung a stand today and used scent control but I was in such a rush to hang my stand I forgot to scent proof my buddy!!!! my season starts in 45 days or so, do you think the scent left there will keep the deer out more tahn a couple weeks or permantly? We didnt walk other than in and out no browsing but I did catch him smoking! lol I am supersticious about total scent control. am I over thinking this orwill it be fine to Bowhunt in 60 days, the place was loaded with deer droppings everywhere and I would hate to blow this spot I have been eyeballing it amd monitoring it for 3 yrs now.

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Yea I think you are over thinking this way to much. Come on man 45 days? Nothing to worry about. I guess I look at it this way too, most of my real buck hunting is done during the pre rut when the bucks are cruising all day long. When they have does on there mind they wont think twice about smelling a human at "this" spot during the summer. And the bucks that are there now might not be the ones that are there in three months. If you hung the stand and planned on hunting it tomorrow then yea you might have something to worry about, but i think you will be just fine.

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man, you should be fine youll have some people tell you that you screwed yourself but i go and check my camera everyday and dont kill my scent maybe closer to season i will but also whre i hunt the deer are around civilization so i guess depending on whre you hunt to what kind of effect it will have.

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I agree...
IMHO...They wont remember what,where, or when unless they were suprised orthreatened.
I was driving to hunt in West Virginia one year West along the New York Thruway and caught the sight of a large doe turning back into the woods.
I looked quickly to where she came from and I watched a Very Nice Buck suddenly stop and look like he had just been placed on another planet.
He looked like he was saying "Who Put This Road Here"!!!!!!!

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Youll be fine. 45 days is a long time, and dont worry about the smoke, i have shot many deer while smoking and bow hunting. its a smell deer arent too familiar with and may come to investigate.

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I agree with the smoking thing. I quit after last year, but in my experience smoke scent does nothing to frighten deer. I was busted once while lighting a cigarette once, but that was movement related not scent.

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You are perfectly fine. The deer won't leave at all. They will smell you maybe, but they won't stop using the area. They will come back faster than you think.

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well thast good to know thansk for the feed back, I have read so many articles and stuff about trophy deer leaving area's for as little as bumping them off a bed, I can't wait the season is almost Here !!!

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IMO the scent control industry is just trying to take alot of our money. Yes, human scent does scare deer off and we should try to contain it as much as we can but were never ever going to de-scent our whole body and the deer will end up smelling you eventually. I dont beleive that jargon about a mature buck running for the hills and never coming back when he smells human scent. In my are we see big bucks all the time in places that humans frequent. And people have been killing deer for hundreds of years without cover scent. I dont really invest to much money into scent control but that is my own opinion.

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Maybe fine , but I wouldn't make the mistake again. I've watched deer keeping an eye on the place where they think I am. I used the information to be sucsessful.