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Post by jabba on Dec 22, 2009 12:16:28 GMT -5
and can use it to your advantage?
I can smell them pretty often when I am still hunting. which gives me a great clue as to when I need to slow WAY down, or even stop for a while and wait.
I "bird dogged" a buck for several hours once by smell, and jumped him 4 or 5 times. I never got a shot on him... but man was that ever fun.
Anyone else use their nose in the woods?
Jabba
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Post by Decatur on Dec 22, 2009 12:19:57 GMT -5
My buddy "Skid" could smell a flea fart from 100 yards and has told me on numerous occassions he smells a deer. He can't hear me talking to him most of the time, but he has a powerful sniffer! Right Skid? ;d I can smell spawning bluegills tho, they smell like cucumbers.
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Post by jabba on Dec 22, 2009 12:27:04 GMT -5
I can smell fish spawning too. Not just bluegills.
My wife's nose is a lot better than mine too. I keep threatening to make her come bird hunting with me... but she won't wear the shock collar!!
LOL!!
Jabba
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Post by HuntMeister on Dec 22, 2009 12:28:41 GMT -5
Deer no, Elk yes! That would be a very useful ability to have Jabba!
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Post by Decatur on Dec 22, 2009 12:35:18 GMT -5
;d @ Jabba!
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Post by wileyonetoo on Dec 22, 2009 12:36:53 GMT -5
on the wife. My wife has the best sniffer and could likely smell deer, birds, etc. As for me, no such luck. Luckily I can still smell dinner cooking....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2009 12:52:56 GMT -5
i smelled a couple of hot does this year. they walked by my stand at less than 20 yards and both had bucks behind them.
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Post by hunter7x on Dec 22, 2009 13:20:36 GMT -5
Ive used my nose more than once to help find downed deer, not rotten deer just deer. and I have smelled live deer in the woods many times also. this past weekend as a matter of fact. Never used it to hunt them but smelling them while Im in the woods isnt too uncommon.
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 22, 2009 13:32:33 GMT -5
Every now and then.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 22, 2009 13:37:58 GMT -5
Only the ones that haven't bathed in awhile.
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Post by indianahick on Dec 22, 2009 13:41:47 GMT -5
Once in a while I can smell a new scrape, It is the tarsal gland stuff that I smell but mostly no. Does smell? Really?
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Post by jabba on Dec 22, 2009 13:49:36 GMT -5
I used to just suddenly get a "feeling" in the woods that deer were close. For years I trusted but didn't understand my premonitions. I had a buddy tell me he could smell them.. .and we talked about it, and I had a "EUREKA"! moment, and from then on... I recognise it when it happens. I smell deer in the woods all the time now. Bucks and does both. Sometime I can identify it as a BUCK. Other times it's just DEER and could be either sex.
Jabba
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Post by tickman1961 on Dec 22, 2009 14:22:49 GMT -5
Makes perfect sense...but, I don't recall smelling any deer despite the distance away.
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Post by INDeerhunter on Dec 22, 2009 14:28:06 GMT -5
I have smelled deer in the woods b4 never really tried to use it to my advantage I guess but I have definitely smelled a ruttin buck and hot does b4.... I have even smelled a deer while drivin down the road lol then I saw it in a small grass field about 40 yrds from the road I guess it had crossed right b4 I came thru and boy he was kickin, Ive smelled spawnin fish too my wife thought I was bull crappin her until one mornin she smelled a doe comin thru the woods, now she picks up on it alot more sometimes more than I do
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Dec 22, 2009 15:49:55 GMT -5
Usually not as I am 20' to 30' up in my stands......
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Post by deerbiskit on Dec 22, 2009 18:17:35 GMT -5
You know sometimes i swear I can smell them but then dont ever see them, maybe cause they smell me to.
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Post by throbak on Dec 22, 2009 18:25:24 GMT -5
I have smelled rutting bucks several times, even before I saw them ,dead ones also
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Post by retnuhreed on Dec 22, 2009 19:15:20 GMT -5
You could drink cheap draft beer all night long then drop a SBD in the same car as me and I would have no idea. So the answer for me is no.
SBD (silent but deadly)
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Post by INDeerhunter on Dec 22, 2009 20:14:43 GMT -5
lmao @ retnuhreed
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Post by bsutravis on Dec 23, 2009 1:18:59 GMT -5
Smelled many 'rutty' bucks in the woods, but like others have said I've never used it to my advantage. Usually it's smelling them walking to or from the stand.
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