Can humans subliminally smell grouse?

Can Humans Sublimally Smell Grouse?

  • Yes, definitely!

    Votes: 9 12.2%

  • Possibly, under certain weather conditions.

    Votes: 10 13.5%

  • Probably not, our sniffers ain't that sophisticated.

    Votes: 38 51.4%

  • Impossible, my dog can even smell them half the time.

    Votes: 17 23.0%
  • Total voters
    74
  • Poll closed .
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Most of us can smell a dead grouse that has been in the vehicle trunk for a few hours .... even from a few paces away. Given the right weather conditions, can we subliminally smell grouse that are or have been recently on the trail?
 
blasted_saber said:
No. 90% of the time its audio signals that alert me. The other 10% is visual.
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I would say I'm pretty close to those stats too. There are also many times where my 'grouse sense' gets locked in for no reason at all though. You suddenly get tense or on guard for no obvious sensory reason.

Although it's highly doubtful that your nose/brain could detect a single grouse on a cold, dry day .... what about the scenario where a covey of 8 just crossed your path or were in the vicinity on one of those dampish days with a bit of favorable wind? Possible, then I think. You can certainly smell a single bird locked in the trunk for a few hours, especially on a wet day - those feathers stink.
 
Maybe.

I have "known" that there is game around, before I had any real evidence that there was. I'm not sure if it is smell. I think most living creatures can, on some level, sense other living creatures around them. Most of the time we're just not real good at it, but I'd bet it could be worked on. It's like when you "feel" something and turn your head and look right to someone a ways off watching you in particular. You probably did not smell them, but you knew someone was watching you. Likely our ancestors who could not, at all, sense others, got turned into predator poop pretty quickly.
 
I'm saying a definite yes to that. It happened to me. I was walking through the bush on a cold December day, and a grouse flushed just behind the cedar line. So I busted through to see if I could still get a shot, and I could smell it clear as day!. I was standing right where it flushed (I could see the wing marks in the snow).

Never have since, though.
Paul.
 
I hunt down wind when grouse hunting or shooting what ever you call it,when I am bent over tasting their #### for any hint of what they have been eating I am surprised at the number of birds I see as I stand up,cant say I ever smelled them.
 
I wish I could...tiptoeing through the bush yesterday looking for a deer, listening for every tiny little crunch or sound from one on a cool, still morning, a grouse burst into flight from about 5 feet from me and made me damn near have to change my shorts.
 
horseshoe said:
I wish I could...tiptoeing through the bush yesterday looking for a deer, listening for every tiny little crunch or sound from one on a cool, still morning, a grouse burst into flight from about 5 feet from me and made me damn near have to change my shorts.
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LMAO..I always see those little bastards when I am not hunting them aswell. definately give a guy a start thats for sure.
 
I don't know about grouse but I have proven to my self over and over that I can "sense" big game, I don't know if it a subliminal message from a scent I pick up or some kind of other instinct but I know 100% for sure it exists.

On that note I have also learned that when I suddenly get the "Heebie Jeebies" in the bush there is an extremely good chance it it for a very real reason. I have also proven this to my self enough times I immediately act on my instinct and get the f**k out out there.
 
One more thing, I have ACTUALY smelt deer, moose and bear which alerts me to their presence before I have seen them. Nothing subliminal about it, they stink. I also use scent to guide me while walking up to downed game.
 
Driving down a back road with a 410 shell in his pocket, my hunting buddy would pull it out and start turning it over in his hand just before we'd see a grouse. He may not have smelled the grouse, but something was telling him that one was up ahead.
 
I think that it depends on the person, I would not be surprised to find out that many people who claim to be able to smell grouse happen to have a better sense of smell than the rest of us.
 
I dont know about this smell thing.. But this season I was walking and just has this feeling and was %100 sure a deer was close and sure enough one just pass the tracks
 
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