Adjourned???

It must just be our deer but They seem to fear the smell of humans. So when some one moves a stand to close to my line I have no problem burying a stinking tee shirt up wind of said stand. I hate line rats.
Or if deer are crossing some place where I can't place a stand I will put something with human odor there to prevent them from using that travel route.
You can use their nose's against them , you just can't ignore them.

Jim...GregH...Charlie...others...

I'll sometimes take a dissenting stand to learn something. The people who know how I hunt know I practice scent control and play the wind to the degree it's prctical for where I hunt.

Good stuff in here, guys. I agree with you more than you give me credit for. What I don't do is take something at face value....just because it's been done that way for (____) yrs. I need to know "why". ex- HOW do we know a 3.5 yr old is more sensitive to human scent than a 1.5 yr old? How do we know what a deer's thinking?

Interesting stuff.....

We become the deer, man.[:-]

I stll want a big assed buck magnet.

I tend to give the deer more credit than some. But I have watched a buck lie still while a hunter passed within yards , and I have seen that same buck bolt from his bed because some one slammed a truck door out on the road.
When I look back at the bucks I did not kill the number one reason was the wind. It now has become the number one factor in what stand I will hunt or if I will hunt.
As for age ,a buck has a short learning curve and if they make past 2.5 years old they pretty much have a masters degree in survival.
They might question what they see,and even what they hear but if they get a whiff of you the game is over and and they will melt away without many ever knowing they were there.

Why one of the things I use is Hawgs Vanishing Hunter. Spray it right in your mouth.

I seldom am wind savy although I don't disreguard it when it's easy to read. Haven't been busted for a long time and I don't even wash my exterior clothes more than once a year.

To my knowledge.....I've only seen 2 deer from stand that would qualify as "mature" bucks. They should both be dead....yet one of them still roams. I give them credit, too. But....not as much as some. One could always use the argument that I've probably scared many more than that off or had them scent me.....but it can't be proven. Who really knows. I saw these two deer multiple times......one for 3 seasons running, now.

What has prevented you from killing them?

One of them?......Nothing. He's at my taxi, now.

The other one?.....ME. First year I let him waltz in on me while I was sitting down. Never got my bow off the hook before he was out of range. Last year....9/12....I got excited and clipped him. I didnt see him again until the day after Thanksgiving.He was 2-3 yds on me before Iknew it.....and I didn't risk a straight down shot. He walked directly away from me....never offering a shot. Last day of the season.....he walks by at 20 yds like he owned the place. I didn't have a tag for him or he'd be on the wall, too.