Jimmy S

Gunner, Thinkaboutit!

Hunters have to try to understand that the deer's BEST defense against getting shot is his ability to smell you. If you think you have an idea how good their sense of smell is, you're wrong because you ain't got a clue. Ya think a dog can smell good? It is estimated that a deer can smell 100-150 times better.

A deer must try to distinguish two things...what am I smelling and is it a threat?
If the 2nd answer is no, then it definitely plays into the hunters favor.
If the 1st answer is he smells nothing (no hunter) then that's the best scenerio for the hunter.

Just because someone can smell a hunter from 10 yds away that reeks of alchohol and tobacco, that doesn't necessarily mean the deer can. Working the wind in you favor is paramount!

One note; I certainly understand that hunting and alcohol don't mix and I would surely avoid anyone that I suspected. I also realize there's a time and place and having a few later at the camp is fine and dandy. If I have a bruiser hanging, then it just might (No, it ill be) more than a few!

NBDeerHunter

My dad smokes in the tree stand and I am always at time to not smoke while sitting and he says the deer don't get bothered by it, He usually sees deer and I even watched him shoot a deer with the cig still in his mouth....alot of luck or dumb deer....hard to say...
Scent control is overrated by the marketing industry that is for sure

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Reesedw

A friend of my dads that I used to hunt with smoked like a chimmney, and every night would drink himself to sleep, He always got his deer. He lived where we were hunting and worked in the woods, he knew when and where the deer would be from being around them all year long. He never took his deer opening weekend, he'd wait until they were skitish from being chased then go set-up where they hid and wait. usally hunted with a 30-30.. Never had a shot over 100yds... and usally the biggest deer in camp.... Tribal Knowledge helps also...

HuntCast

Every deer I have shot (or filmed someone shooting) I have had to put out a cigarette to do it. When you do your homework on the wind, and get off the ground, scent control hardly makes a difference.
Where it matters is if they circle downwind......... that sucks then, lol.

Manybeards

The simple truth came to me late in my deer hunting experience.... When I first started bowhunting back in the mid 70's I only had one stand,and hunted it hard EVERY DAY! No concern about wind direction..... just hunted because it was the only place I had. I killed the occasional spike or scrub,and on many days I would see nothing at all. I wore the same old military camo everyday,and never washed it..... Finally,it dawned on me..... the days I was seeing deer,the wind was in my favor. And,when no deer showed themselves,well you know the rest. Bottom line: Those who smoke and don't take the time to control their odor will surely kill deer on occasion. But,those of us who NEVER hunt a stand on the wrong wind,and try our best NOT to stink will see far more(and better)bucks. I will not share a camp or ride in a vehicle with a smoker. Nothing against 'em,but I work to hard,and my time is to limited to let someone else's carelessness ruin my hunt........

Southern Man

I do not get this play the wind crap get 20 FT up a tree a deer wont smell you.I have had deer come from every direction before.I live in a very poor deer county.

NJheadhunter71

Where Ilive (NJ)some of the spots I huntI smell the naighborsgrill, cloths dryer, fertilizer on the lawn and yes have even smelled clorine from th pool and that ismore that one spot I hunt.Most guy bait year round and leave sweaty cloths near the bait pile and a few even leave cig butts so they can smoke in the stand and not worry about it.Most deer are urban and it can really be the farthest thing from real hunting butHEY we got 100 deer per square mile!

salty

I have a relative that smokes, drinks, farts, burps, lights cans of sterno to keep his hands warm and has also lit a small fire of leaves and sticks to warm up. He hunts wearing black leather shoes and dress pants from Sears. This is no joke and he shoots the biggest bucks you ever want to see.

DaveH

In areas of very high deer densities, there are so many running around that it's hard not to eventually seem some and get a shot. In suburban areas where smells from the neighborhood commonly are smelled in the woods, you can get away with scents that you wouldn't in wilder areas. And even the worse stinking hunter will eventually be downwind of deer and get some opporuntities if any of these scenarios exist. But to consistently shoot monsters, you need a lot of things to come together, and stinking isn't something that will help those odds.