Have you noticed the smell!?

Discuss the science of figuring out our prey through good detective work.
  • Advertisement

HB Store


User avatar
Weaver.b
Posts: 297
Joined: Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:40 pm
Status: Offline

Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby Weaver.b » Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:05 am

I cant be the only one.
Fairly often I will be out scouting and the smell of a wet dog will hit me. If anyone else has encountered this I feel like you would agree that is exactly what it smells like.

I always thought that a coyote or something must be near by but I have never been able to prove that is what I was smelling. Anyone wanna put their 2 cents in on this?


When my time upon this earth the days they are fulfilled let me die at least as clean as those I killed
User avatar
Dewey
Moderator
Posts: 36727
Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby Dewey » Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:10 am

Sasquatch smells like a wet dog. ;)
KRONIIK
500 Club
Posts: 2576
Joined: Tue May 17, 2016 11:09 am
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby KRONIIK » Thu Mar 14, 2019 10:34 am

I don't know what you're smelling.
Fox and coyotes stink, but not really like a wet domestic dog, at least not to my nose.
(And I can't STAND the smell of a wet hound; I find it particularly revolting- way worse than skunk scent of equal intensity. I have a strong stomach but that will make me retch.)
User avatar
elk yinzer
500 Club
Posts: 1229
Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:39 am
Location: Central PA
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby elk yinzer » Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:27 pm

I wouldn't equate it to wet dog but I can definitely smell fresh deer scent.
Treasurer, United Bowhunters of PA
https://ubofpa.org/membership-3
User avatar
Dewey
Moderator
Posts: 36727
Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby Dewey » Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:31 pm

elk yinzer wrote:I wouldn't equate it to wet dog but I can definitely smell fresh deer scent.

Especially a ruttin’ buck. Stanley always said after pissing all over themselves they are a walking latrine during the rut. I agree. If you get downwind of them there is no mistaking.
User avatar
oldrank
Posts: 6158
Joined: Wed Nov 27, 2013 7:32 am
Location: USA
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby oldrank » Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:49 pm

I can smell deer often.

I also think I know what you are talking about. That musty wet towel smell. I always just thought it was woodland decay.
User avatar
krent12
Posts: 207
Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:01 pm
Facebook: Kyle Rentmeester
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby krent12 » Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:56 pm

I smelled my first rabbit before i jumped it this winter. i told my buddy to get ready i can smell it and 5 steps later it got up. Cant say the same with deer yet.
P&YBuck1
500 Club
Posts: 973
Joined: Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:37 pm
Location: S.E. Wisconsin
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby P&YBuck1 » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:05 pm

Not sure what state you are in but a bear will smell like wet dog to me.
JWandling
Posts: 77
Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:14 am
Facebook: Jason Wandling
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby JWandling » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:16 pm

I smell deer all the time. I was just telling someone about it today and he thinks I’m crazy.
User avatar
Weaver.b
Posts: 297
Joined: Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:40 pm
Status: Offline

Re: Have you noticed the smell!?

Unread postby Weaver.b » Thu Mar 14, 2019 10:54 pm

Who knows :lol: when I encounter it I have never thought deer. I know that smell and this isnt it. Im in Ohio and where I am we dont have bears.
When my time upon this earth the days they are fulfilled let me die at least as clean as those I killed


  • Advertisement

Return to “Scouting”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: BLEXbot and 29 guests