Smoking in the stand #2

[CoastieHunter]

So, I like I'm sure a TON of other people in here are smokers.

Do you smoke in the stand?

It's funny because we have 6 people on our lease. 3 of us smoke. The guy that's taken 3 and the only deer thus far for that matter is a heavy heavy chain smoker and smokes in the stand (personally seen it myself too).

He is either the luckiest SOB or is it that the scent of smoke (which is alot) is not an issue to deer?

My uncle in Michigan has killed tons of deer. He says some of the busiest days he has seen activity was when he had a small fire built for himself. Seems the deer were checking it out to see if the woods were on fire.


SO... if you're a smoker... do you smoke in the stand?

NOT A THREAD TO JUST SAY "UH, WHY DON'T YOU QUIT"

 

[Baxter83]

My dad don't hunt anymore, but he used to slay them every year and he smoked in the stand every time he got in it. It don't bother the deer one bit. Until they somehow find a way to associate the smell of smoke with DANGER there's no harm in it.

 

[8pointbetter]

yep i have had to put them out because the deer would just keep coming and its hard to shot bow with smoke in mouth

 

[CoastieHunter]

Huh.. interesting.

I've done a lot of research on scent and cover scent. Pretty weird how deer think really.

Human piss vs doe piss

Cigarette smoke -vs- $7 bottle of cover scent.

Seems they associate the "bad" smell of human as BO and BO only. I've flicked butts on the ground and had deer smell them up close. You can tell, the cigarette doesn't bother them, but once they got the human scent off of it they bolted.

My wife laughs when she is in the stand with me because I spend 20 minutes spraying down with cover scent only to get in the stand and spark one up. Thinks it's pointless. But told her the same as above, it's the human scent that bothers them, not the cigarrette smoke.

 

[easlo]

I smoke..never seem to have a problem with it.

 

[JeepKuntry]

I smoke, but I try my best not to smoke on stand when I'm bowhunting. During gun season, I'll smoke some, but I do alot of ground hunting and stalking.

 

[stik]

i can't count how many times i have had to put a cigarette out to shoot a deer.

 

[CoastieHunter]

I just proved it last night that it does not matter...

I was in a climber about 20 feet up. It was 5:17 exactly and I was smoking. Look up to a field about 35yrds away and there was a BIG ole granny doe and a yearling.

I didn't have a shot due to bushes/darkness so I just grabbed my bleet call to try and bring her in to about 10 yrds.

I bleeted once and she came in on a string...

Keep in mind... I'm still smoking. I watched my smoke go up to about 23 feet then rapidly decend to about 5 feet in front of her.

She wiffs the air and looks around like she was not interested in smoke, more like she wanted to know where the bleet came from.

I bleet one more time softly just to itch her about 10 yrds closer. By this time I had dropped cigarette (not sure if landed on stand or ground), and grabbed my bow.

She is standing still and looking around. Her yearling about 15yrds in tow. I'm losing daylight super fast and maybe at best had about 5 min left to hunt if I was lucky.

I say heck with it... bleet one more time. BUT my dumbass grabbed the wrong part of the flextone I have and grabbed the grunt. So instead of a bleeting yearling doe.... I'm NOW a full on raging mature buck grunting 20 yrds from her!!!

Needless to say, she didn't care for that much and bolted.

But didn't get blown... so stands still good!

MORAL of story: Smoking doesn't affect deer AT ALL when they are interested in something else... be it food, water, other deer, etc.