Josh_S wrote:WV Bowhunter wrote:I went through the smoke routine about 15 years ago. I was religious about it, washed everything, line drying, smoked with hickory or oak chips and then went hunting. I thought it helped some of the time on the first time I wore the freshly smoked clothes. I did kill some bucks smelling like a pack of hickory smoked jerky, haha. After a few hours though, they didn’t work and when a deer smelled me it would go on high alert. I believe this was due to the bacteria growth causing new scent which a deer can sort out.
Best thing I ever did was get rid of my ways of thinking I’d fool a bucks nose and learn to hunt using the wind to my advantage. I wouldn’t waste my time on it if I were you.
Thanks for the input. Do you mean after a few hours the deer were on high alert more than usual?
Yeah I would say so. If I had a deer hit my scent stream first thing, they would stop dead in their tracks, sniff and lick their nose, then wag their tail and go on like nothing was wrong. After a few hours, same thing except they would blow and snort like crazy and then high tail it out of the area.
I decided it wasn’t worth the effort for the small amount of gains I saw from it for the first few hours. It was a lot of work.