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Last deer I shot I took a piss next to where I was sitting about 10 minutes before the deer walked in. My wife's first deer she shot.....same thing....nature called only a few minutes before the deer came by.Nature called and my body had no choice but to answer...
Yes, I took a shit in the woods but walked about 100 yards off the beating path and buried it.
Is my general area of hunting ruined?!
Lolll!!! I think I already nuked it.......!!!!
I have heard bears do something similar.
You can't compare though. Bear scat will have a very different scent and it won't be accompanied by human ground scent.
I guess he doesn’t know if a wild bear shits in the woods. Don’t be too hard on him.Does your wife get annoyed with you because you are a super-serious-take-everything-literally kind of guy?
Whats your general hunting spot look like? Lot of human interaction or no? Got a big doe saturday after smoking 5 marlboros and taking a leak out of my tree stand, but i was also 300 yard away from houses
Yes, I took a shit in the woods but walked about 100 yards off the beating path and buried it.
Does your wife get annoyed with you because you are a super-serious-take-everything-literally kind of guy?
I think your being a bit too serious, it all depends on where you hunt and how close to humanity you are. Deer get used to all sorts of everyday things.There will be impact. A deer's nose is often underestimated by hunters. They can pick off your breath at a 1/4 mile. Of you drop a stink bomb, even of buried, it will have an impact. Hell just your ground scent from walking the 100 yards will have an impact.
How much? Well that depends on how pressured the deer are.. Heavily pressured animals will absolutely avoid anywhere they detect human scent. Especially where it's not common to encounter it, like off a trail.
Do you write off the spot.. Well no. But I wouldn't expect to see any mature animals walking by. Unless they get pushed by someone else, which could happen if you're in the right spot.
There is a lot happening in the woods during gun season. Animals get pushed around. But of it were archery I would write the spot off until next year.
I was on my way out to my stand a few years back when I came across a guy who had set up a ground blind a few feet off the main trail. The dude was sitting there heating up a can of soup with one of those little stoves that sounds like a jet engine. I could smell the soup and hear the stove when I was at least a hundred yards away. I would imagine the deer smelled it miles away.
My stand was about a 15 min walk from him and I sat there from noon until dark and never saw so much as a bird or a squirrel. Every now and then I swore I could still smell minestrone wafting in on the breeze but it might have been my imagination.
I'm not married. Never have been. Never will be.
Deer have excellent noses that we can't even comprehend how well they work. But it depends on the area we hunt, the deer that are there, what they are used to, etc. Deer in a suburban/rural area are used to people scent and are less likely to be spooked by any unusual smells. My scent is the last thing I worry about when I hunt.There will be impact. A deer's nose is often underestimated by hunters. They can pick off your breath at a 1/4 mile. Of you drop a stink bomb, even of buried, it will have an impact. Hell just your ground scent from walking the 100 yards will have an impact.
How much? Well that depends on how pressured the deer are.. Heavily pressured animals will absolutely avoid anywhere they detect human scent. Especially where it's not common to encounter it, like off a trail.
Do you write off the spot.. Well no. But I wouldn't expect to see any mature animals walking by. Unless they get pushed by someone else, which could happen if you're in the right spot.
There is a lot happening in the woods during gun season. Animals get pushed around. But of it were archery I would write the spot off until next year.
I dunno.There will be impact. A deer's nose is often underestimated by hunters. They can pick off your breath at a 1/4 mile. Of you drop a stink bomb, even of buried, it will have an impact. Hell just your ground scent from walking the 100 yards will have an impact.
How much? Well that depends on how pressured the deer are.. Heavily pressured animals will absolutely avoid anywhere they detect human scent. Especially where it's not common to encounter it, like off a trail.
Do you write off the spot.. Well no. But I wouldn't expect to see any mature animals walking by. Unless they get pushed by someone else, which could happen if you're in the right spot.
There is a lot happening in the woods during gun season. Animals get pushed around. But of it were archery I would write the spot off until next year.
I dunno.
The way I smell on bike rides is rather notorious. Yet I still ride RIGHT UP TO them. In fact, it's funny: the worse I smell the more likely I'll have a deer encounter on a ride. Conversely, bears want to have NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. My bear encounters have been in clean, fresh-smelling gear.