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LOL, hell no, smoke and scotch is for around the fire back at camp.
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If they can smell your smoke they can smell you, too.
I’d think that would bust them more than a cigar would.
Cigar smoking while deer hunting is OK if the cigars are soaked in TINKS beforehand.
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Some folks get lucky and some folks make their own luck. Scent control is my main concern when hunting whitetails. The Ozonic is kind of a hassle to use and the deer will hear the fan. But the deer won't smell you when you use the Ozonic in conjunction with other scent control measures. https://www.ozonicshunting.com/
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Smoke while your still hunting. Drives the deer crazy I've been told
Gun Shows are almost as comical as boat ramps in the Spring.
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It's pretty elementary. When hunting, you are in the living room of everything wild in the outdoors. Any scent that's not usually there will draw the attention of every animal that smells it. Some of you talk like you have not spent much time in the outdoors.... I'm generally in this camp. While I enjoy a nice smoke (my Peterson collection is too big really) - it's never in the hunt. Just not necessary for me. If I suddenly smelled cologne as I walked into my house - I'm pulling a pistol, even if I like the smell. Something's there that shouldn't be and never was before - my fight/flight response ratchets up some. Same for deer.
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We have a herd of deer 45yds from the back door eating corn every morning that I spread by hand every afternoon. If you walk outside to sit on the porch to view them they usually smell you. It's not human scent that alerts deer, it's the amount of human scent. That's why cover scents, scent blockers and Ozonic work.
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I view it like whispering in the woods vs yelling. They may still hear (smell) you, but why make it so much worse?
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My dad smoked a bunch in the deerstand with me growing up, Alpines and then Salem lights, I never remember it spooking a deer, can't tell you how many he had to put when we had a deer coming in. Bow/Shotgun only county, had to get them close. We killed a lot of good bucks.
Funny, I'd ask him why he had to smoke in the stand, his response was always "I'm checking the wind"
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My Gramps smoked cigars and my dad smoked cigarettes, both while stillhunting. Each of them killed enough deer to fill a boxcar.
My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here. My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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Smoke is 1 way of keeping track of air currents. If it's going toward a deer, you're in the wrong place. Talc in a bottle will do the same thing without rotting out your lungs.
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My Gramps smoked cigars and my dad smoked cigarettes, both while stillhunting. Each of them killed enough deer to fill a boxcar. My friend smoked his ass off bow hunting, he couldn’t go ten minutes without firing up another one. He killed plenty deer. If he had to pee, he would stand up in the tripod, let it fly. I don’t know what to say, but apparently that didn’t bother the deer either.
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Helps keep the skeeters away
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i used to smoke 1 1/2 to 2 packs cigarettes a day, until i had a stroke. it's been 11 or 12 years since i lit one up. i used to smoke on the ground and in a tree stand and it didn't bother the deer. as a matter of fact, i was smoking when i shot the deer. i've been around a few fires (hunting deer) when it is gotten cold (10 degrees and less) and i've killed a few deer that were coming to the smoke. 15 to 20 years ago, i found detergent that kills UV light and leaves clothes unscented. i use that and a drop or two of earth scent and i'm good to go. i've seen deer pay no more attention to me downwind of me. by my ground blind, i would scrape the leaves off of the ground, urinate, kick the leaves back on it and enter the ground blind. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00194EUUW/ref=emc_b_5_i?th=1&psc=1
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Cigars don't bother my deer hunting at all because I don't smoke I dip.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine
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I have never smoked and would discourage others from doing so - especially when hunting deer and mature bucks in particular.
John +1 about smoking and bucks. I used to smoke from elevated stands and would still see does. However, it wasn't until I quit that that I began to see bucks.
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Y'all haven't switched to crystal meth these days? Getcha some that glass dick!
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My Gramps smoked cigars and my dad smoked cigarettes, both while stillhunting. Each of them killed enough deer to fill a boxcar. My friend smoked his ass off bow hunting, he couldn’t go ten minutes without firing up another one. He killed plenty deer. If he had to pee, he would stand up in the tripod, let it fly. I don’t know what to say, but apparently that didn’t bother the deer either. I've come to the conclusion that pee is pee, no matter who squirts it out. Deer don't seem to tell the difference. I know dogs use it to mark a territory but I haven't seen that can tell the difference between dog, man, or deer pee.
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I think some of it depends on location. I hunt some small tracts near houses where people burn trash , outside fires or wood stove smoke. Those deer don't pay much attention. But a few miles off the road in National forest its a different ball game. Just my experience
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My Gramps smoked cigars and my dad smoked cigarettes, both while stillhunting. Each of them killed enough deer to fill a boxcar. My friend smoked his ass off bow hunting, he couldn’t go ten minutes without firing up another one. He killed plenty deer. If he had to pee, he would stand up in the tripod, let it fly. I don’t know what to say, but apparently that didn’t bother the deer either. One of the guys in my club regularly freshens buck scrapes with his own piss. The scrapes continue to be very active.
My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here. My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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I used to smoke cigarettes, and have killed several deer with one in my mouth. Having said that, I wouldn't do that now days.
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