smoking and hunting

[sharkhunter]

I've been working on the wife for a few years to go hunting with me but she has to have her smokes. My question is for the guys that do smoke do you light up on the stand or do you holdout till after. The times you did smoke did you spook/see deer ????

[DrenalinJunkie]

The only time I have ever smoked while on stand was while rifle hunting. THen I wasn't worried about it I was 200 yards away.

While bow hunting....... make her wait until after you get out of the woods.

[Dude Briggs]

I dont smoke so I dont have that problem, but a buddy of mine does and doesnt think it spooks deer at all. But he is also a gun hunter that doesnt need to be close to get a shot. I personally think if you give deer any reason to think something is up they will bust you everytime. I can smell cigarettes from a pretty good distance and my nose is no match for a deer's.

[mboltm]

I put down the smokes a couple months ago so a non issue for me now, but when I did smoke, I always smoked in my stand, I would smoke right after I got in to "calm" myself, But as I sat, The more time passed I would smoke as I wanted, On many occasions I had to put a cig out to draw my bow. I think pop ups hide alot, movement, odor, etc. If I was on my tri pod I guess it went over thier heads, I don't know. I don't believe it ever cost me a shot

[Sinkey]

In Arkansas, the deer smoke as well, so its not a problem! Hahahaha!

When bowhunting, I wait til Im back out on the road before I light up. And take off my sentblocker stuff.
When rifle hunting, I light up in the stand all the time, and drink coffee.

[TS Outdoors]

I can smell cigarettes from a pretty good distance and my nose is no match for a deer's.[/QUOTE]

thats my thought to

[howzitbra]

The only time I have ever smoked while on stand was while rifle hunting. THen I wasn't worried about it I was 200 yards away.

While bow hunting....... make her wait until after you get out of the woods.

x2

[J-J Matt]

When I smoked, I would smoke in the rifle blind all the time, but I never did it on the bow stand.

[DNew]

Smoke when i gun hunt.....

[xman59]

never smoked myself.. but my dad smoked cigars,, i have seen with my own eyes deer hit the smoke trail and walk up to him and almost bump noses with him... he even blew a smoke ring aroud ones head,, thought he was gonna get stompped that day.... but i never saw one come to my uncle who smoked cigarettes

[Sinkey]

People talk alot about deer spooking off cig smoke.
2 years ago while scouting a threw a lit cig off my 4 wheeler in the road and went down about 100 yrds to work on one of my stands. A doe walks out and went right up to the cig and didnt spook. Now, she jumped back a bit when she put her nose right up to it, but didnt really spook.
I think deer are like people. Some are bothered by it, and some arent.

[TexasBob]

People talk alot about deer spooking off cig smoke.
2 years ago while scouting a threw a lit cig off my 4 wheeler in the road and went down about 100 yrds to work on one of my stands. A doe walks out and went right up to the cig and didnt spook. Now, she jumped back a bit when she put her nose right up to it, but didnt really spook.
I think deer are like people. Some are bothered by it, and some arent.

Well said. I have hunted with my uncle, who used to smoke, all my life. I have seen deer come closer and some not really care. Haven't personally seen one spook and run away from it. I don't personally worry as much about scent control as a lot of people do though.

[Mudshack]

I gave up smoking in the woods back in 2004. Started playing the scent game. Growing up, I would hunt with my dad, and he had his 8am smoke, and then the deer came by. Now we were rifle hunting from the ground in big woods PA, but we never could see further than 50 yards, so if we saw deer, they had to be Bowhunting close.

I remember many times having to put out a cig when they came in. But.....I have seen WAY more deer since playing the wind/scent game.

[dogcatcher]

If the deer are used to the smell or do not associate it with humans it won't matter. If you drive a gas pickup and the landowner drives a diesel and is on the place almost daily the gas pickup will spook them quicker than a cigarette. If they have been subjected to smells and sounds with no danger they become use to it and soon lose their fear of those smells and sounds.

[BDT]

I smoke all the time on stand. (bow or gun) If I am bow hunting I'm down wind of where I expect the deer to come from anyway.