https://youtu.be/Bf5cfcTnhbc?si=gudSShDYDi0vO45W

anybody do this?

I tried it once and I got sick of smelling the smoke smell in the stand, quick. I can tell you one thing from all my years of bowhunting, you aren’t going to fool a deer’s nose. Best three pieces of advice I can offer is hunt the wind, only wear your hunting boots to and from the stand (nowhere else) and keep your hands off vegetation walking in to your stand.

Bee smoker.

If you do that, you will smell like a hunter that started a forest fire. Deer don’t like either one of those. Just play the wind and expect anything down wind to bust you.

Winston Full flavor. One on the walk, one every 10 minutes in the stand… seen it with my own two eyes

Play the wind and be as scent free as possible
No scent is the best scent

hmm - wonder if they’d like pipe tobacco 🤔

Gotta be hardwood smoke

smoke kills bacteria including odor causing bacteria, thus smoking jerky, etc.
So it both kills odor causing bacteria and covers scent as well. Indians did it to get closer to game. Still hunt the wind as much as possible but the smoke will def help. Deer are used to smelling it in the winter also.

Gotta be a plus

If you want to kill big bucks, Black and Milds only. 😁

logically the winter is when it’d be (in my mind) the most effective - a time when folks are using their fireplaces for heat
right now, nobody’s burning anything w/the severe drought conditions going on

https://imgur.com/a/eFLFiL0

Yes it works but is a pain in the butt

Especially when we’re in a drought and you catch to woods on fire

I can’t remember if there was a drought in Oct 2020 when I was playing around with this to see how the deer would react, but I will be sure and check with your smartass the next time I give it a go

what was the deer’s reaction in 2020? the video i posted was about smoking your clothes - hadnt thought about a can on the stand LOL

Used to hunt with a fella that chain smoked Pall Malls in the stand. Always killed big bucks, when he hit them. Not the greatest of shots, even recall one where he shot the antler off one side. Deer just stood there like WTF, and he got him on the next shot. Good memories, RIP Mr. Fred.

Yeah I use to do my clothes and it seemed to help. The can in the tree was just another thing I was playing around with. The bee smoker took constantly being stoked to keep a good smoke screen flowing . I probably did it 5-6 times and the deer didn’t seemed bothered by it, just a lot of trouble. The best thing I’ve found is cleanliness. I use to Keep everything as scent free as possible, and shower before each hunt which both of these are a lot of trouble. Nowadays I hunt mostly public so I just use the wind best I can and hope for the best.

i can’t find the video - but Dan Fitzgerald had a blind & he’d hang his socks, underwear, & t-shirts he’d worn inside it 🤣 he said he had game cams where the deer blew like crazy for a few days & then they’d calm down … then he’d go hunting in the stand 😆

Please do so and I’ll give you the ok to do it

What Shaw said x 100,000,000

🤣

I do it

We had a trail in Michigan that split part way up a ridge and would hang a dirty sock about 30yds down the side we didn't want deer travel and it seems to funnel deer our direction more often than their normal trail use.
Doesn't matter what cover scent ua use, those human particles are fling with it, I don't bother.

Not exactly right. Smoking/curing lowers the water activity to a point that bacteria cannot replicate

I am not saying you can beat all the deer's noses, but some folks know how to beat a lot. Lot of work into going almost be completely scent free. Just hard to find a place where an old buck lives long enough to really be worth the effort to be scentfree to harvest it. Someone usually shoots it before it makes it to 3 years old. Interesting watching a smart dog outsmart a smart buck. A lot of bucks would have lived longer if wasn't for some good hunting dogs. Ever watch a dog just stop and throw it's nose in the air?

What shaw said !!