Scott Bestul recently posted an interesting blog on Field and Stream’s Whitetail 365 blog. Bestul had a reader write in that was wondering about the way deer respond to smelling human scent vs. their exposure to human scent. In other words does human scent impact deer in suburban or farmland areas where deer encounter human scent all the time?
The reader also wondered if deer can differentiate between human scents. Find out Bestul’s response to the questions here.
Login and let us know what your thoughts are. Do you think deer that are accustomed to human scent and noise are less likely to spook than a deer that is living in a wilder area?
Bestul still recommends hunters reduce their scent as much as possible. Check out these great scent elimination products by Code Blue.
i cattle farm in upstate s.c. and drive 4 wheelers in the pastures all the time and my main foodplot is on the other side of about 30 acers of thicket from one of my pastures. so the deer smell mee year around but on 9/14/09 i had 5 bucks on my mpultrie camera in that ffod plot this next day i was hunting opening day in a stand with the wind all wrong butt it was openimng day, blowing into this 30 woodlot, or thickey and did not see a deer. then 3 days later same thing, but had check cattle everday with my sent in air and did not see any deer and 90 percent of the time with the wind that way nothing. but i check cattle everyday the deer know were you are and that you are in different place even though its only yards away frm your regular routine
Posted by: gre hart | September 22, 2009 at 05:41 PM