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Post by kdog8173 on Nov 9, 2010 2:24:09 GMT -5
yes, to all non smokers, I should quit. just curious on how other smokers do there routine. I always spray truck down night before with scent block.leave windows cracked. get up, coffee and ciggs, then shower with the no scent sope.no cigs after shower. put on my robe and high tale it to the garage. spray me down good with scent block, especially face and hair. spray me down again when i get there and don't have another cig till in back at home and out of my clothes. i no some dress at spot. just hate making all that noise cause I park 100yds away from stand. once i get my other truck running, it will be JUST for hunting. never any smoking in it. anything I'm missing or tips, except to quit
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Post by mrfixit on Nov 9, 2010 6:17:25 GMT -5
Dang thats a whole lotta work when everything depends on the wind and air currents.
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Post by retnuhreed on Nov 9, 2010 6:36:12 GMT -5
Yeah, If your in a space suit put on in a clean room, a buck will smell you if he is in the right spot.
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Post by speckle on Nov 9, 2010 7:13:00 GMT -5
I don't worry about it at all. I smoke in the stand
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Post by talloaks on Nov 9, 2010 7:50:37 GMT -5
I just think its all in what you believe in. I smoke. Smoked im my truck all the way to my hunting spot one evening last fall and shot a 9 pointer at 10 yards with my bow. A friend of my had a cigarette in his hand last gun season and noticed a deer coming in. Put it out on a log and shot and the deer ending up net score 157. Long story short, i enjoy the outdoors and unfortunately im a smoker so i just do what i do and dont worry about it.
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Post by Shelby County Switchback on Nov 9, 2010 8:59:32 GMT -5
No matter what...if you are a smoker....you cannot cover that up. Best bet is try and play the wind.... When i was a smoker, it seemed like every time I lit a smokie, a deer would appear.
Good Luck
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Post by elmo on Nov 9, 2010 9:05:36 GMT -5
talloaks
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Post by tickman1961 on Nov 9, 2010 9:07:56 GMT -5
I am convinced smoke does not make deer nervous...common smell anywhere in this State.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Nov 9, 2010 9:54:43 GMT -5
I don't smoke but I have never been one to worry about foreign smells, even with poor wind direction.
However I take body odor totally different.
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Post by kdog8173 on Nov 9, 2010 9:58:46 GMT -5
wow, never smoked in the woods. maybe ill try. might be good luck
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Post by indianadan on Nov 9, 2010 10:00:36 GMT -5
I quit long ago, but when I used to smoke, I smoked on stand occasionally. There is not a better way to monitor wind currents than the smoke wafting from a lit ciggy! ;D
IMO ciggy smoke is not the deer spooker it is made out to be. Guess what.....if the deer can smell your smoke he can damn sure smell you. Is the deer spooking from the smoke or you? Does it matter??
A couple years back I would hunt after working manual construction and smoking all day. No shower, just camo up and head out with particular attention played to wind. I killed just as many deer then as I do now taking all the scent precautions.
Play the wind!!
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Post by dmduck on Nov 9, 2010 10:24:03 GMT -5
Every deer I've ever killed I either just lit a smoke or put one out ... actually tucked a hot one up on my ear and shot one then finished my smoke .... hunt farmsteads that smoke gas deisel whatever .... it's a normal odor ....
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Post by raporter on Nov 9, 2010 10:55:58 GMT -5
Haven't smoked for many years but never saw where it bothered the deer. Now this morning I am playing the wind, got a doe and fawn coming in upwind when a little breeze comes from them to me and she imedeately starts snorting. Danged swirling wind and the were down hill from me as well.
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Post by deerman on Nov 9, 2010 11:09:01 GMT -5
I usually smoke a couple of pork butts and some ribs for opening weekend of gun. Just kidding, Lol. I don't smoke but a friend smokes in the stand and kills lots deer.
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 9, 2010 11:22:38 GMT -5
By some good cancer insurance, you'll need it. Every smoker in my family eventually died a horrible suffering death from lung cancer..check it out sometime , hospital is full of em...it'll rip your heart out...your family are the ones who pay, they have to watch, and live with the suffering, you eventually die.
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Post by tenring on Nov 9, 2010 11:35:04 GMT -5
It would appear that the arm and hand movement of smoking would be the key to alerting deer.
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Post by steve46511 on Nov 9, 2010 11:49:25 GMT -5
Smoking is definately a RISK, IMHO........but Ive put more cigarettes out to take a shot than I can remember. Gun, Bow, on the ground and in a tree.
I smoke with my hand next to my head and put the butts in a air tight plastic cup I carry. Do I spook deer......Im sure I do.
However, this AM I had one dink buck cross 20 yards upwind and a coyote and another dink buck cross downwind at less than 50 yards. Neither even hesitated. Mornings like this were temps are going to raise 30 degrees, up thermals do their job.
Ive thrown butts at bambi to get them to leave so I can relax a bit. More often than not they sniff it and look at it awhile and amble off. One of them ATE it.......no joke.
I TRY to not smoke a LOT in my stand but smoke I will until I get rich and famous and can afford something to help me quit.(yes I know the cigarettes cost more).
For ME, it hasn't been successful OR easy to try to quit but Ill git - r - done...
My buddy has fits when he sees what I get by with. I dont have an explanation but do know I hunt for fun and relaxation and it is NOT fun NOR relaxing sitting there with a splitting head ache.
God Bless Steve
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Post by woodmaster on Nov 9, 2010 14:00:57 GMT -5
Having deer smell me would be my SECOND worry about smoking......
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Post by throbak on Nov 9, 2010 15:12:40 GMT -5
down here Tobacco is a cover scent
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Post by lugnutz on Nov 9, 2010 21:16:12 GMT -5
By some good cancer insurance, you'll need it. Every smoker in my family eventually died a horrible suffering death from lung cancer..check it out sometime , hospital is full of em...it'll rip your heart out...your family are the ones who pay, they have to watch, and live with the suffering, you eventually die. Sorry for your losses, but folks die everyday from cancer that never lit a cig. We all owe a death. Had my personal bloodhound (Shawn 15yrs old), help me come look for a doe that i shot earlier this year, and he said that he could smell the cig smoke as soon as he stepped into the woods. I have a had just as many deer spoke when i wasn't smoking on the stand as when i do. I personally not as worried about any type of scent during the rut as i am during the rest of the season. Bucks only have one thing on their mind
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