- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Guys often argue about whether smoking darks in the stand will affect your hunt. But what about a nice steaming cup of thick coffee? Not quite as powerful of a smell as cigarettes but still pretty powerful.
Drinking coffee in the tree stand?
- Thread starter freddyfour
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SomebodyTookMyName
CGN Regular
- Location
- Central Saskatchewan
I think all too much hullabaloo is made about what scents do or don’t spook animals. If you play the wind right, it’s simply not a concern anyway.
Generally in a treestand, you’re high enough up to prevent your scent from affecting the area badly. I smoke a pipe, eat my snacks, and enjoy my coffee in both the treestand and ground blind.
Generally in a treestand, you’re high enough up to prevent your scent from affecting the area badly. I smoke a pipe, eat my snacks, and enjoy my coffee in both the treestand and ground blind.
SomebodyTookMyName
CGN Regular
- Location
- Central Saskatchewan
The trick is to get them addicted to coffee.
Two or three months before the season, spread some coffee beans around a few times per week…come fall time, they will not only show up at your door step, they will climb your tree stand!!! True story!
Two or three months before the season, spread some coffee beans around a few times per week…come fall time, they will not only show up at your door step, they will climb your tree stand!!! True story!
saskgunowner101
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- middle of Sask
I wouldn't worry much about the smell of coffee or cigs, as long as the wind is in your face. More likely to spook a deer with movement than anything.
No deer feed or bird feed to attract them, but I regularly have deer around my house. Last week three were napping on the lawn. Waved at one looking at me through the kitchen window two days ago. They just go about their business. Smells, sound of the radio, whatever, doesn't seem to bother them.
My thought: coffee or any liquid leads to urination and a human scent like that is most definitely a red flag. But as Somebody and Sask said, you have to play the wind direction anyway (it's always there even when you can't feel it- when I'm out stalking I dangle a length of very light thread) and no animal can smell from upwind. They can circle around, however, if they suspect something.
- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Lol, that's a pretty good indicator. I don't think I could sit all morning without a coffee, biggest problem with coffee is what comes after.
SomebodyTookMyName
CGN Regular
- Location
- Central Saskatchewan
Last spring, as an experiment, I deliberately ashed out my pipe and cigars around my bear bait, so the scent would become familiar to them.
Now mind you, bears are definitely less shy than deer, but I was still shocked when I lit a pipe and wound up with a young boar climbing my treestand not half an hour later!!
He was made into very fine breakfast sausages, which pair well with my stockpile of Aunt Jemima’s finest… but now we’re getting off topic.
My opinion is scent control is to limit the target animal’s reaction to your trail in/out. Every animal will be an individual, and have differing level of neuroticism and react differently. Don’t get caught in the “it could happen” trap/mindset. Once in the stand the wind/thermals should be on your side, or you shouldn’t be there.
It's not so much the stench of my fart that gives me away, as much as the rustling of the leaves and brush. behind/below me.
100% agree with this
I've watched the deer go right under the stand below me but when they get downhill to where my trail to the stand is...... they absolutley know something is up. Luckily by then I have already made my shot if the deer was a harvestable one.
