I always bring military style MRE' s to my stand and have them for lunch. I sometimes use a hand warmer to heat up the main course a little. Everything comes in foil pouches and they make very little noise when you are careful and I then put everything back in the plastic pouch they came in to contain the scent. I don' t know if I need to because I know the food smell is still on my breath but if a deer smelles human breath, I think its all over no matter what you ate.

If you hunt with mosquitoes, stay clear of banana' s. This isn' t a wive tail. I' ve read it twice in magazines and saw it once on TV. Something about bananas and your bodies chemicals makeup attracting more mosquitoes than when comparred to someone who hasn' t eaten bananas. Don' t remember the details, just the part i needed to know. DON' T BRING BANANAS TO DEER CAMP!!

Me personally, I' ve made it from sunrise to ~1600 before. The worst was a nightime pig hunt from 1800-0200 on a no-standing option tripod stand. My but was branded from the shannon bug tamer outfit and I could barely walk.

On stand- water bottle, granola bars and PB&J if I plan on staying a while.
Plus eating your all day food is a nice thing to do while your waiting ~30 minutes after a shot to get down out of the stand before retrieving your deer!!

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Rack you' re right the deer will sense something is different with the apple but they don' t automatically assume it means danger. They have no idea that a human brought it into the woods. They will smell the human scent you' ve left on it though. All animals are born with natural instincts and you have to assume that food being a priority for them they probably will investigate it as a possible food source.
TJ

FFTJ

Acording to your theory I could smoke cigs in my stand and it would not spoke
the deer? All smoke is not caused by humans. I do smoke but not in my stand.

It' s funny that the apple thing came up......


I hunt in an area that is heavily populated by deer aswell as humans. I been hunting there now for 4 years. There are NO apple trees in the area at all whatsoever, but still put apples out along with corn (no corn in area either) during the off season and during the season. I found that being in an area of humans, deer know just about EVERY smell a human could possibly let off (not just there scent, but the food, pets etc.) The deer actually eat out of the trash cans :P. Whenever I put out the apples and corn, the deer would be there feeding on it everynight (maybe they ate that type, or smelled that type of food before in the area due to humans and know what it is). I have tried this on private property in western MD, where there are is a very little population of humans. The deer did respond differently. They did get a little spooky by circling the area, nose up. Eventually they did realize it was food, but the big deal is they responded differently....This was just an experiment I was doing...If Iwas trophy hunting, I wouldn' t have chanced the apples

JM, you' re comparing apples to oranges. Apples are a food that deer are known to prefer when they' re available but smoke is from a fire. Don' t get me wrong they will react differently if it is the first time they' ve smelled apples or have smelled them in association with humans before but the apple smell itself is just another smell to be checked out. I' m sure deer smell smoke in the woods from time to time but even to me whose sense of smell is miniscule compared to a deer brush fire smoke smells very different than cigarette smoke. It' s pretty safe to assume that if a deer has smelled cigarette smoke he has smelled the human scent associated with it. While they can' t reason they do remember that with cigarette smoke there was human scent. Now I' ve heard both sides of the smoking arguement and I will say this, I don' t smoke at all but I put off enough bad smells in the woods I don' t think they need any help and if they smell the smoke they can sure as heck smell the human with it. If you want to smoke have at it just know you' re giving them another way to pinpoint you. This is by far the most civilized debate I' ve been in on a website and I' m enjoying discussing this with all you guys.
TJ

Speaking of oranges would they eat it, or run?

chips and a pop??

the only pop in my stand is after i pull the trigger[&:]



in the south we don' t have pop, we have mountain dew -- yeah baby

A sandwich, a Candy Bar, Cajun Trail Mix, Cheese Nips and water. Holds me as long as needed.