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Post by jabba on Dec 1, 2011 8:28:28 GMT -5
I can smell deer when hunting and often use it to my advantage.
People think I'm nuts. Anyone else?
Jabba
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Post by trapperdave on Dec 1, 2011 8:30:41 GMT -5
sure can, when the wind is right
I doubt smokers can
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Post by swilk on Dec 1, 2011 8:31:23 GMT -5
You claimed to be able to smell deer from 300 yards away .....
Of course a person can smell deer in the woods every once in a while ..... but if you go around claiming to be able smell them from 300 yards guys are going to instantly label you crazy or a liar.
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Post by countrystyle56 on Dec 1, 2011 8:36:01 GMT -5
You claimed to be able to smell deer from 300 yards away ..... Of course a person can smell deer in the woods every once in a while ..... but if you go around claiming to be able smell them from 300 yards guys are going to instantly label you crazy or a liar. And the hammer meets the nail!!!! |
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Post by jabba on Dec 1, 2011 9:01:11 GMT -5
There was a strong wind, and multiple deer. It is what it is. Maybe the conditions were just perfect to funnel the smell to me that time.
I guess it's POSSIBLE that there was a deer closer to me that I never saw... but I don't believe that to be true.
People can label me whatever they want. Truth is we killed 2 out of those 3 deer at Newport. Which was our job in a deer reduction hunt.
Jabba
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Post by hunter7x on Dec 1, 2011 9:18:47 GMT -5
yup, Ive smelled rutting bucks before I saw them and found recently shot deer (not rotting) by smelling them first.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 1, 2011 9:37:02 GMT -5
I agree with hunter 7x. The last big Buck dad harvested we lost the blood trail in the rain and got back on it by the strong smell of him being rutted up. We smelled him from about 75 yards away. He stunk to high heavens.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Dec 1, 2011 10:07:55 GMT -5
Yup! If the conditions are right.
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Post by Decatur on Dec 1, 2011 10:18:22 GMT -5
I have lots of times, and I smoke. I can also smell spawning bluegills.
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Post by dadfsr on Dec 1, 2011 10:43:51 GMT -5
No doubt that I can smell them IF I'm downwind and they are close (maybe within a hundred yards but there are a lot of different factors to consider rather than distance!)-especially a rutting buck. Can't say as I smell them as much when I'm up in a stand though... just to stir the pot a little  |
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Post by jabba on Dec 1, 2011 11:10:39 GMT -5
I have lots of times, and I smoke. I can also smell spawning bluegills. Me too dude. I was at Bradford woods doing volunteer work a couple years ago, on top of the hill, and told the guy I was working with... the bluegills are spawning, without ever having seen the lake. Absolutely! Jabba |
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Post by HuntMeister on Dec 1, 2011 12:14:32 GMT -5
I believe I have a few times.
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 1, 2011 12:21:29 GMT -5
Yup! If the conditions are right. This |
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Post by bowhunterjohn on Dec 1, 2011 12:27:32 GMT -5
I can smell them also, and from quite a distance, sometimes 150 yards.
I have found two dead deer for guys from the smell only. One time a guy lost a deer, no blood no nothing, he made a bad shot on the deer. When i got about 90 yards away i was in the wind of it and smelled it, walked right to it. Also did this another time , tracking a deer I told the guy that shot it " I smell it" he laughed, however I walked a straight line to the deer, he followed the blood, guess who got their first ? Me
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Post by firstwd on Dec 1, 2011 12:37:14 GMT -5
Deer, mink, coon, beaver, skunks, coyote.... It's crazy the things you can actually smell after a year or two of trapping.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 1, 2011 13:02:48 GMT -5
A rutting buck is fairly easy to smell. (.Stick a hock gland in your face after you kill one and I promise you won't forget the smell.LOL)
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Post by jabba on Dec 1, 2011 13:03:07 GMT -5
I wish I could learn to smell my own pheasants.
Jabba
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Post by duff on Dec 1, 2011 21:55:41 GMT -5
Question is, if a rutting buck were to wear Scent Blocker, do you think you could still smell it? LOL. I have smelled deer in the woods plenty of times but not always.
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Post by bowhunterjohn on Dec 1, 2011 21:56:58 GMT -5
Deer, mink, coon, beaver, skunks, coyote.... It's crazy the things you can actually smell after a year or two of trapping. exactly I can smell red fox too ! , coon have a different odor as well as ground hogs. |
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Post by HighCotton on Dec 2, 2011 7:47:30 GMT -5
I can smell deer when I'm NOT in the woods. I'm in Missouri right now and I swear I smell deer in our Indiana woods right now!! I'll let ya know if I was correct tomorrow.
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