Smoking While Deerhunting
09-03-2006, 08:58 PM
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Smoking While Deerhunting
This is my first time whitetail deer hunting. Can you smoke while dear hunting? I will be in a blind so the deer wont beable to see the motion in between puffs. What are your thoughts about it. (please dont write about i should quit smoking, that is not what im looking for) Thanks
09-03-2006, 09:39 PM
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Typical Buck
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Location: The mountains of Southwest Virginia
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RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
This comes up every year and there are somesay it makes no differanceand some say it scares away the deer. I don't smoke at all but if I am awake I have a big dip of Skoal in. I have seen deer smell around mypath and come on in and some sniff and go. I am out to enjoy my hunt and I can't do that if I am in a nicotine fit from not dipping. If it scares some away so be it but there will be some that pay no attention to the smoke.
09-03-2006, 09:58 PM
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RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
ORIGINAL: sprintflyer
This comes up every year and there are somesay it makes no differanceand some say it scares away the deer. I don't smoke at all but if I am awake I have a big dip of Skoal in. I have seen deer smell around mypath and come on in and some sniff and go. I am out to enjoy my hunt and I can't do that if I am in a nicotine fit from not dipping. If it scares some away so be it but there will be some that pay no attention to the smoke.
This comes up every year and there are somesay it makes no differanceand some say it scares away the deer. I don't smoke at all but if I am awake I have a big dip of Skoal in. I have seen deer smell around mypath and come on in and some sniff and go. I am out to enjoy my hunt and I can't do that if I am in a nicotine fit from not dipping. If it scares some away so be it but there will be some that pay no attention to the smoke.
09-03-2006, 10:54 PM
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RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
I have also been told both ways. Me personaly I smoke while Ihunt at about 1 per hour. I have killed both does and bucks. I killed a doe last year and lit up within 15 minutes after killing it. A buck walked out in same field while im smoking and i took it also. So i have killed deer while smoking but im sure i have spooked some off i never saw.
09-04-2006, 05:52 AM
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RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
i agree with rebel hog..
i smoke up in the air and out ashes and butts in a container, that's
taken out of woods..
deer rely on eyes, ears and nose.. so i figure they can scent that nasty
smell on ground..
heat usually rises so the smoke goes up, unitl a down draft..
haven't you been outside of a building and smelled someone smoking
aways from ya?.. keep that in mind..
i smoke up in the air and out ashes and butts in a container, that's
taken out of woods..
deer rely on eyes, ears and nose.. so i figure they can scent that nasty
smell on ground..
heat usually rises so the smoke goes up, unitl a down draft..
haven't you been outside of a building and smelled someone smoking
aways from ya?.. keep that in mind..