Anyone have an idea how deer react to the smell of coffee grounds? I'm wonding if they would relate the smell to humans or diregard the smell as natural. As potent as they are, it would sure make for an easy cover scent tool.

Even though the question is serious, I'll get a couple out of way -

Regular or Decaf??

Roasted Almond would be a good attractant!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

OK, Ok.....

I think it is more a strange odor that they are not used to that alarms a deer, rather than anything else. Get them used to smelling coffee grounds and it would work just fine as a cover scent...

Combo

mix it with salt and they will come to when they smell it, (really)

Not a bad idea, Hubert...

I think we often give deer too much "credit" for intelligence. In my experience, deer are NOT as "smart" as they are simply "cautious"... just like any prey-species.

I find they are also very "curious" animals. When NOT frightened or startled into instant flight, I've watched calm deer that I decided NOT to shoot show a great deal of "curiosity" about slight sounds or small movements I'd make in "testing" a deer's "fight or flight syndrome" reactions.

As several other hunters have reported here in various forums in the 24-Hour Campfire.com, deer have often been known to show considerable curiousity by coming to hunters using predator calls... and not necessarily just those calls that imitated bleating deer fawns, but distress calls imitating rabbits and other animals as well.

More years ago than I care to admit, I had a grizzled old hunter tell me that he got his annual antelope by placing a 5-foot stake in the ground at the top of a hill with a bit of white cloth tacked to the top of the stake. The piece of cloth waved and fluttered in the breeze and antelope came to the stake out of curiousity to see what the fluttering white cloth was... thus offering the old hunter a "clean" shot at them as they stood there "nosing" the fluttering cloth... due to their curiousity. I believe that undisturbed deer will do very much the same thing.

Jus' my 2�... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

I tried the white cloth trick on antelope but I think they have gotten wise. Old timers did seem to have pretty good luck with it though. I also tried an injured jackrabbit call on Mule Deer but all I got was a bunch of damn coyotes. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I just heard the price of shares for Starbucks went up <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I take a thermos, of coffee to the blind. I've often wondered if it the deer can smell/react to it. I've often thought of spreading coffee grounds around blinds/stands when I'm not hunting them. Maybe it will get the deer use to the smell. Who knows? capt david <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />