I've been kind of curious about this for awhile now and a previous post sparked my interest. I'm a casual deer hunter, I go deer hunting about every 2-3 years. I don't bother with camo or scent blockers, I smoke in the tree stand and yet I still usually have no problems filling my tag (elk are a whole different story, sigh...) , I know deers noses are pretty sensitive, but so is my beagles. I've seen her miss a rabbit that was upwind of her just a few yards but able to get a hot scent from a rabbit 50 yards downwind. I've seen the same thing with my labs and pheasants, if one is downwind of them, they will find it a long way, upwind they might hear it, but they don't go on point until they smell it, which is pretty close sometimes.
My personal thoughts are the deers noses are sensitive enough to pick you up downwind no matter what you do, scent blocks etc. but if you are upwind of them, they just about have to step on you before they scent you. What do you all think?
2007-11-16
09:07:34
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