smoke from house affecting deer?
12-01-2008, 07:18 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,754
smoke from house affecting deer?
well i hunt my own land and i wondered if smoke from our chimmney could be driving deer away from my hunting spot. i hunt probably 800 yards away from our house and wondered.
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12-02-2008, 07:50 AM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 102
RE: smoke from house affecting deer?
Shouldn't. My grandfather has an outdoor burner that he burns everything from wood to trash in to heat his house. The smoke can get like thick fog covering everything within a half mile. My cousin (his neighbor) still gets deer coming to his feeder in his back yard each evening even when the smoke covers his yard.
12-02-2008, 09:30 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
RE: smoke from house affecting deer?
It all comes down to ifthe deer treats anything as a threat. The smell of chimney smoke is certainly not one of them. Not only are the deer used to it but they have learned from other deer that smoke is of no concern.
My Springer is always chasing tennis balls in the back yard and the deer know it. His scent is everywhere. I have seen deer within 50 yds of the house even when the dog is outside. They are aware he is there but they realize no direct threat exists. Now if I take him bird hunting and he comes close to deer, they vanish in a flash. Those deer react totally different and for totally different reasons. The smell of smoke in the woods would alert any deer and they react accordingly. But the smell of smoke from a house chimney is treated as just another natural scent in their woods.
My Springer is always chasing tennis balls in the back yard and the deer know it. His scent is everywhere. I have seen deer within 50 yds of the house even when the dog is outside. They are aware he is there but they realize no direct threat exists. Now if I take him bird hunting and he comes close to deer, they vanish in a flash. Those deer react totally different and for totally different reasons. The smell of smoke in the woods would alert any deer and they react accordingly. But the smell of smoke from a house chimney is treated as just another natural scent in their woods.