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I would not suggest chips but would suggest sandwiches, power bars, and or apples (deer love apples). When bringing food to your stand, make sure you have some zip-lock bags to store and discard your food except for apples. You can throw the apples on the ground after you have eaten then. By doing so, you will contain the scent after consumption.

Thanks and good hunting!!
jt

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I often take a snack of some sort with me, but I try to take something a little quieter than chips, and if its available something that dont smell too strong. If a deer gets downwind of you it will smell you or whatever you are eating so I really try to watch the wind. I dont eat my snacks unless I need to but I have them just in case, usually something kind of good for me like a piece of fruit or a granola bar and always water to drink. As far as height goes it depends on the terrain, but more importantly how high are you comfortable in a stand.

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When I' m in the stand, I rarely eat or drink....Just like when Im fishing. But, just in case, I do bring a bottle of water with me since when I open it, it doesnt make a loud hiss like a soda pop....I may bring a granola bar or a pop tart with me....but I usually dont eat it til I get back to the truck after I hunt, lol. I' m not sure how high you gotta be before the deer can wind ya, but I dont want to give the deer any advantage over me....I try not to move, even a little bit, or eat

Just my 2 cents.

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that' s a real good question[8D] first off anyone that sit on stand, all day is a better
person then me, avoid chip' s[:@], other' s mentioned fruit, real good choice, I prefer candy bar' s, for quick energy[:o]

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I usually bring a couple of peanut butter & jam sandwiches with me , along with some cookies , to snack on throughout the day . Besides keeping my belly from grumbling the carbs they provide helps to keep you warmer on a cold day . This is especially important for treestand hunters since they are more exposed to the wind . Your stand height is mainly detrmined by the environment you' re hunting in , and your tolerance for height . Just being up higher won' t guarantee that deer won' t smell you , the wind can change without notice , and will carry your scent with it . Scent reduction strategies are a much better bet for avoiding detection than stand height . I hunt from a ground blind , or still hunt , so scent reduction is crucial to my hunting style . The blind helps to contain what little I do put off , but doesn' t guarantee anything .

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Bring and do whatever you want to up in the tree. When the deer start blowin on ya and leaving you, then revise what your doing up in that tree.:D

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If you are going to sit all day - bring food and drink by all means:)

especially if its cold. I would stay away from the greasy stuff, but as mentioned power bars, sandwiches, and fruit are great. You can even bring pop (what the heck is pop[:-])

Just bring out what you bring in[8D]

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rack-attack, i had to learn that soda, to pop thing, having moved up here from
staten Island, for anyone bring pop with them on stand, try to avoid pop with foam
on top, you could get a ticket:D

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[quote]what the heck is pop )

Hey RACK, I thought thats what all you Yankees called Coke/soda?;)
Maybe thats just the MidWestern ones.[:-]

I always bring water and a sandwich when im in stand. I wouldnt bring noisy,(crunchy) or highly smelly foods. I think if a deer is going to smell what you are eating , he will smell you too.
Years ago I actually had a small 4pt. buck finish off part of a peanut butter sandwich that I accidently dropped from my stand.
Eating fruit is a good idea too.
As far as how high. It depends on how close the deer is too you, how strong a breeze is blowing, how the thermals a acting , etc.. A deer directly under your tree may not smell you if you are 15-20 feet up. However, a deer standing 20 yards away may wind you unless you are between 20 and 30 ft. high.
Over the past 23 years I have found that around 25 ft. is best for me. Under certain conditions I do hunt lower but on average im up between 20 and 25 ft.

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Like most of the guys have said, i usually take a few apples and some candy bars. Usually some POP!! Always take bottled pop so you can put the lid on it and its quieter when you open it. If you take candy bars or anything with a wrapper on it, take it out of the wrapper and put it in a zip lock bag or in a paper towel so when you open it up you wont be making noise with the wrapper.

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Dried prunes and apricots.

Have energy building qualities and keeps you alert. :)

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, they also give you some other properties that you don' t need in the stand:):D. Just kidding.

I would also in general suggest eating foods that are high in energy. Reason being, that you don' t have to eat as much of them. My problem is if I bring something, I sit there knowing it is in the bag, and I have to eat it right away!!!

Also, you want to be as confortable in the stand as possible. So bring things that you like.

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I do the fruit thing myself. I usually try to sit all day so I will bring an apple and will fill aziplock bag with grapes and plenty of water

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i usually live on peanut butter and jelly in the stand. i also like the gatorade with the wide mouth so i can use it for refills if ya get my drift. on a serious note i was told that the indians wouldnt eat before a hunt because of the smell. i think if you eat any sort of meat the sulfur compounds your mouth gives off lets them deer know a predator is around. i just cant give up those tabasco slim jims especially on a cold day. munch away!:)

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Mathewsbow1

If there are no apple trees in the area,throwing a apple coor by your stand would
be more of a warning then an attractant to a big buck. Just my thoughts.

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I always pack a few sandwiches and Gatorade or apple juice and some candy ( removed from the wrapper ) I usually eat a half a sandwich at a time it helps keep you warm on those cold days I remember shooting a doe with half a sandwich still in my mouth

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Jag-Mag, while deer are smart about their use of fight or flight they have no ability to reason. In an area with no apple trees you and I deduce that a core is out of place, deer only smell something good to eat. On the other hand if you leave human scent on the core they' ll leave in a hurry.
TJ

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FFTJ,

Not to make a big issue out of this but I disagree with you. Throw an apple in the Core area of a mature deer, when there has never been an apple before, and you will get a reaction (he may come in to investigate or he may leave), but he will not IMO just walk on by and eat it:)

And they can reason - to a degree - they know what belongs and what doesn' t.

And how does he know its good to eat if he has never seen, let alone eaten one before:D;)

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I agree with rack don' t ever throw something on the ground thats been in your hand,you leave a lot of your scent with your hands the apple core scent may not spook a buck but your scent will.

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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.

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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:D 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

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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.

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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;)

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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

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Speaking of oranges would they eat it, or run?:D

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chips and a pop??

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



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

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