Smoking While Deerhunting
09-05-2006, 09:42 AM
#23
Dominant Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ramsey , Indiana
Posts: 22,545
RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
I don't smoke anymore , but I've had plenty of deer walk up right after I finished a cig or while I was smoking it . Unless they associate that particular smell with danger it doesn't seem to bother them . Deer are very curious by nature .
09-05-2006, 02:54 PM
#25
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fremont, NE
Posts: 552
RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
I have been sitting on the ground with my back against a tree and had 2 come up so close to me that I could have hit them with my hand. I don't think that it bothers them at all. Soon after that,I took a decent buck. I am hunting the same place this year and I think that I should have a good shot at taking a nice buck this year.
09-05-2006, 10:14 PM
#28
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: New Rochelle, NY
Posts: 35
RE: Smoking While Deerhunting
Remember the basics about being scent free!! You can't be scent free if the wind is carrying your smoke down wind and your cloths smell of smoke because you lit up in the truck or car while driving to where you're going to hunt. If people can smell cigarette smoke on you, so will the deer. Will it always spook them?I don't know. It's easy for me since I don't smoke anymore. And yes you're right, reformed smokers are the worst critics. I don't know about using 'Skoal' so I'll reserve comment.But if smoking and/or chewing makes your day enjoyable, then enjoy!! Just my 2 cents worth.
09-05-2006, 10:16 PM
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location:
Posts: 781
RE: Smoking While Deer hunting
ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
I have taken a Crap in a 5gal bucket and place by the tree and deer have come up to investigate the Oder. That doesn't smell like nothing in the woods, believe me!
I have taken a Crap in a 5gal bucket and place by the tree and deer have come up to investigate the Oder. That doesn't smell like nothing in the woods, believe me!
09-05-2006, 10:45 PM
#30
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: Smoking While Deer hunting
ORIGINAL: NYC Hunter
Remember the basics about being scent free!! You can't be scent free if the wind is carrying your smoke down wind and your cloths smell of smoke because you lit up in the truck or car while driving to where you're going to hunt. If people can smell cigarette smoke on you, so will the deer. Will it always spook them?I don't know. It's easy for me since I don't smoke anymore. And yes you're right, reformed smokers are the worst critics. I don't know about using 'Skoal' so I'll reserve comment.But if smoking and/or chewing makes your day enjoyable, then enjoy!! Just my 2 cents worth.
Remember the basics about being scent free!! You can't be scent free if the wind is carrying your smoke down wind and your cloths smell of smoke because you lit up in the truck or car while driving to where you're going to hunt. If people can smell cigarette smoke on you, so will the deer. Will it always spook them?I don't know. It's easy for me since I don't smoke anymore. And yes you're right, reformed smokers are the worst critics. I don't know about using 'Skoal' so I'll reserve comment.But if smoking and/or chewing makes your day enjoyable, then enjoy!! Just my 2 cents worth.
1. Wearing your hunting boots before going to your hunting site. You stop and get gas and are stepping where gashad been spilled.
2. Then you decideyou have to go to the Rest Room and step on a urine soaked floor.
If you watch the Tree Lounge Instructional Videos, they demonstrate with a Orange Smoke Bomb at 20-30' and the smoke never comes down to the ground.
The only time I would not smoke is when I was still hunting or in a ground blind.