How many of you can smell deer?

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Today I was out doing a last bit scouting/tresspasser control. I was putting along on my atv when all of a sudden it smelled like someone dumped a bottle of tinks in my lap. Sure enough just a little ways off a HUGE scrape right in the midle of the atv trail.

I have smelled it many times before. Sometimes more obvious then others. One time I recall going in the bush wiht the kids for some survivle skill training. we walked several hundred yards into the bush when my nose detected the oh so familiar odour. "smell that?" I said "Keep an eye open for deer". We went on to build a lean-to shelter and start a fire. We were in the midsts of starting to roast marshmellows when one of the kids stood up and shouted "Dad a deer". This really big doe ran by us just on the other side of the lean-to. Just as we stood up two bucks chasing the doe put on their brakes and looked at us for a while. After a few minutes they disapeared into the woods.

It is very exceiting to actually smell them before you can see them. Anybody else have any stories?
 
There's been a few times out here on the west coast, when conditions were a little 'damp' and the breeze just right where I could smell a Deer before I saw it. Not often but a few times and not just during the rut.
 
I'm not too bad at smelling B.S...........so far on this thread, none.

I can only remember 2 scrapes that I smelled before I saw. Both near alfalfa too.
 
Yeah, I've smelled them and not seen them too. Mostly not seen them.

But one time a buddy and I were sitting and having lunch at a spot where he said he'd missed a jumbo mulie buck the day before.

Then I smelled the musky scent glands of a deer and suddenly a doe appeared 60 yards away.

He had a LEH doe permit, so he shot it, but I'll bet that buck was there too.
 
We have about 20 deer moving through the property and lots of secondary scrapes, rubs, droppings etc. With the conditions(re: moisture, temperature, wind) "right" and assuming no cold or allergies or the neighbour isn't barbequeing spareribs .... again, then yes I can pick it up/out. But I wouldn't want to have depend on that sense for survival or to feed myself .... because, as a rule, it just doesn't work efficiently enough under "normal", average conditions.
 
over the years ,ive to wiff it a few times..but ive neaver connected on one..it smell,s like some old musty pissy type of smell..
cut out a tarsal gland and give it a wiff:Dthen you will know how it smells;)
 
Yes for sure I have smelled deer before I saw them, but only bucks as far as I know, and only in the rut as far as I know.

I shot a nice buck with my bow about seven years ago early in the season. He took off on a dead run through a tangle of dog willows and I lost sight of him within about ten yards. I am deaf as a post so could not hear him and even Superman's X-ray vision would have been challenged in that brush, which was about eight feet high...............

About ten minutes later I got down from my stand since it was getting dark, and looked for blood. Nothing. Looked for the bolt. Nothing. I was somewhat distressed :runaway:........... I went and got my buddy, we put away the bows and got the flashlights. Into the dog willow we went, on hands and knees, but never found a drop of blood first nor last. About an hour and a half later, with one flashlight dead and the second fading fast, I said to my buddy to hang on, I could smell that buck. I put my nose into the air and started circling, said to him that the deer must be close, and he stepped on it. The buck had been hit a bit high and a bit back, and the bolt had stuck into the far side shoulder blade. The liver was totally muck, and the body cavity was full of blood. I would never have found that buck by a blood trail or by tracks in that mess of dog alders, so I got lucky with my nose.

I did not get a nice dog biscuit for my efforts, but I did get almost a hundred pounds of boned-out venison! :p

Doug
 
back to John Y............

Hey, we were having a serious discussion until you suggested that deer smell worse than guys after a couple weeks in camp...............:eek:

of course, my experience is not with the deer in your area, nor the guys in your hunt camp........:p

Doug
 
so do your deer smell that bad, or do the guys in your camp smell that good?

And how exactly do you measure the variance? :p

Doug
 
Doug said:
so do your deer smell that bad, or do the guys in your camp smell that good?

And how exactly do you measure the variance? :p

Doug
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Bwahaha! :D

I believe that's when their wives make them strip off their hunting cloths in the front yard and hose them down with a garden hose when they get home. :D
 
Oh well everybody's nose is a little different ..... I can smell fresh cat pi$$/$hit in the garden(do they ever go anywhere else?) and a skunky beer three tables over.:D
 
I can smell the deer every time. It does not matter what season or weather conditions. Everytime I catch the smell a few minutes later out walk the deer. None of the guys I hunt with can ever smell them.
 
Doug said:
Calum, do you hunt with JYC? If so, how is your nose?

Doug
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Doug..ive hunted with JYC..i dont want to say anything bad about the man..BUT;):p
as you can see he from Lindsay:p
have you been there years ago and ever smell the water they drank and showered in?
i think the rotten egg smell takes a few years to wear off:p:evil:
 
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