Can you or Have you ever smelled a deer before seeing?
 

Sometimes when I am out hunting and the wind is in my face, I swear I smell the musty odor of deer even though I don' t see them. Have any of you guys ever experienced this and then have deer show up? Just wanting to know if my imagination is getting the best of me. :D

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I can relate to what your saying. I was shed hunting one time, and I started smelling this musky smell. I thought it was coming from this old scrape that I had just passed, but then I jumped up 6 deer. I do think that you can smell the deer if things are just right.

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YUP, especially those long haired Adirondack deer. They can really stink it up.

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Yup you sure can and Elk even smell worse...

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I' ve smelled pigs before I saw them and I don' t mean on a farm.;)

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Several times I' ve smelled a buck before I saw him. Last year, during the rut, I was walking in one morning in the dark and jumped a buck. I was able to smell where he ran by the strong musky smell.

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Yep sure have,especially in South Texas on a hot day,they stink big time. When I was young I could smell pheasants also

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Yep, you can smell deer. Really good during the rut when they are wizzing on themselves.

If you ever go on an elk hunt and get down wind of a rutting bull you can smell them from 100 plus yards away. It' s a wonderful smell that you,ll never forget.;):)

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yup you can smell them.

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Definetly not your imagination:) I have smelled deer when hunting before but it is much more noticeable during peak rut times. If you smell it you' d better get ready quickly:D

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yea this last season i was out on my 4-wheeler and smelt a musky smell so i asked my uncle he said that u can always smell that when they are in the rut

Oklahoma has some big whitetails in the southeat part of the state

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And what really gets my head swiveling and bobbing around is when the smell just about knocks you out and you CAN' T see anything. I' ve had a couple times on some humuck in a cedar swamp when I just about went beserk. And then when the wind stays the same but the smell fades and disappears... you know you' ve been had.[:' (]

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What' s interesting to note is that they recognize their smell and our smell alerts them. lol So realy do we stink or do they stink. I guess it' s all in how you look at it. lol Yea, I' ve had a hunt or two where I could smell them before I saw them.

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Yea if your blind i guess and its in the middle of the rut. jus kid' n

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I have smelled a deer I was tracking, on several occasions.

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So funny that I' m reading this post this morning. I went out scouting yesterday (can' t hunt on Sundays here so it' s scouting day). Well I went to check on one of my stands and on the way there I jumped one or more deer, when I walked to where they were I could smell them. Smelled just like the deer pee you buy at the store. Pretty cool[8D]

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yea, ive smelled them while tracking also?

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I have smelled bucks during the rut before I even saw them. Most people are just more tuned in to seeing things in the woods and not using all their senses especially smell.

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Thanks guys for all the input, good to know that one is not losing it.:D It is good to get out there and free up your senses and be able to experience something like that.

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You can really smell them when its damp, Ive used my nose several times to locate deer. Years ago, my brother and I were out bow hunting, on the way toward are stands I said to him that there is a deer real close and that I can smell it, no way he said, we took a few more steps and up jumps this deer, the look on his face was price less.

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Numerous times!!!

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i' ve smelt them before.

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smelled it may times