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Today I went for a short walk thru my new public hunting area. As I was sloshing thru a tamarac swamp I jumped a deer, I obviously had to try to find the bed, it's amazing that I had to look for 20 minutes to find a bed of a deer that jumped up 50 ft in front of me. The one thing that helped me find his bed was the smell of the rut on him, I followed my nose to a small high point in the swamp and there it was. Anybody else experience this? My snot dripper doesn't even work the way it used to but it helped today.
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Oh yeah I have had that happen quite a few times. Some bucks are pretty rank!
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I smell to find them dead often.
I smell to know where they/ve been frequently as well.
I smell to know where they/ve been frequently as well.
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I have smelled bucks down wind of me on many occasions. They are a walking urinal so to speak.
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Stanley wrote:I have smelled bucks down wind of me on many occasions. They are a walking urinal so to speak.
Do you mean upwind?
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I too get the buck scent in my nose every fall. I'd like to understand more about how some seemingly mature bucks can smell terrible with totally blackened tarsels while others in the same area have hardly started.
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elk really smell like a barnyard, but I have smelled deer too. Good question James on why some stink more than other
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James wrote:I too get the buck scent in my nose every fall. I'd like to understand more about how some seemingly mature bucks can smell terrible with totally blackened tarsels while others in the same area have hardly started.
I wonder if the stink is a dominance thing. Some bucks are just way worse than others. Seems like the most aggresive ones always smell the worst.
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Last two years I have been paying more attention to it, amazing how well your nose can work when you focus.
I smelled a buck walk by me before light one morning during muzzleloader, he left the field way before light and was rank, I know he was a good one. Going to scout toward the swamp he was headed to after season.
I smelled a buck walk by me before light one morning during muzzleloader, he left the field way before light and was rank, I know he was a good one. Going to scout toward the swamp he was headed to after season.
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I have never smelt a rutting Buck...
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kwaldeier wrote:I have never smelt a rutting Buck...
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My cousin shot a buck gun season and his tarsal glands just reeked!!
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I too can smell them occasionally. Some reak so bad you can smell them coming, some really don't smell much, and some you question whether you smell what you think you smell, or if its something else...
Not all bucks participate in the rut to the same degree. I would think the 2 & 3 year olds that make the majority of scrapes, and do the majority of breeding probably smell the worse.
I too get the buck scent in my nose every fall. I'd like to understand more about how some seemingly mature bucks can smell terrible with totally blackened tarsels while others in the same area have hardly started.
Not all bucks participate in the rut to the same degree. I would think the 2 & 3 year olds that make the majority of scrapes, and do the majority of breeding probably smell the worse.
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I've smelled two that we were blood trailing in some thick brush before we saw them, dead of course. The first one I didn't realize it until we got to him. The second one though I knew the smell as soon as I got a whiff of it. Both were shot in what I believe was the peak of the rut. Tarsal glands were almost black on both of them.
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