Here's a good one...
My buddy goes hunting opening morning, about ten years back. He get's into his stand before light and while he's sitting he get's intestinal gridlock!
Climbing down quickly he power walks with his butt checks clinched together to find a safe spot to discharge... About 60 yards from his tree stand.
Now my buddy has gotten quite a few more deer than me to this point, so this frustrates me a bit.
Climbs back into his stand and an hour latter arrows a fine 6 point in velvet.
So every archery eve (Sept 15th - NH archery season), I call him up and sing him Tammy Wynettes "Sh-t bye your stand"!!!

shot my buck this year with a dip in my mouth but nothin like huntin the rut or pre rut and a lone doe starin right at u and a mouth full of juice fighting its way out the corners of your mouth but u dont want 2 move a muscle 2 keep from spooking her i dont think its effescts u got a cousin that swears by dippin apple skoal while huntin a 13 pt buck was havested inches from his spit pile the next morin deer was smellin it

If you have to question it you probably shouldn't do it. I don't do either.

I always have a chew in while hunting I dont see where its hurt me yet. I always take it out about a hour before dark just 2 refrain from the extra movement. I dont carry a spit bottle either just spit on the ground. Hasn't hurt me yet to my knowledge.

i hate to do it but i have to dip too. just me personally, i CAN'T go from before it gets light till after dark when i come down without feelin that sweet addiction in my lip. i spit on the ground last year all morning on an either sex rifle hunt and a doe walked RIGHT under my tree and never even acted alarmed when she walked past a quite large spit pile. . .BB

this is kind of like common sense, ok deer smell 40 times better than humans and i can smell cigarette smoke from 20 yards away so 20x40= carry the oneum it equals a lot

i dip griz mint and spit on the ground, it doesnt affect the deer in my area they have come up and smelled it and walked away like it was nothing

GUILTY for smokin.. ONLY when im up in the tree stand.. not on the ground.. 16 feet up.. not saying that makes much of a difference.. and depends on the wind.. this past season.. i had put a cigarett out, and 10 min later popped a button buck (thought to be a doe)
Two days later.. had a really noisy wrapper granolla bar.. couldnt help it.. damn thing wouldnt open cuz my fingers were frozen.. and i was so upset i made so much noise.. so i finish the granola bar.. lit a cig @ 8:02 sharp and @ 8:05 with cig in lip walks a monster 4 pointer.. i mean MONSTER size body.. as if he traveled from way up Canada or something.. looked like he escaped Saratoga Springs Raceway (horse Race) anyway.. the smoke was getting into my eyes when i had the cig in my mouth putting the X on the Buck, but.. got a clean heart shot.. @ 95 yards.. through thick trees n shrubs.
hopefully i'll have quit this dirty habbit by this upcomming season.. ive cut down to 3 cigs a day from 3/4 pack a day.

I DIP WHEN I HUNT AND GOT NO PROBLEM WITH IT...WELL I TAKE THAT BACK I DIP IN SCHOOL TO SO NO BIG

For the first deer I ever shot, I had to quickly step on my cig and shoulder my shotgun. Prob depends on the wind..

Adam Bowman
Southwest Ohio