Making Sense of all the Senses
09-07-2006, 09:50 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Making Sense of all the Senses
As any Scout can see, a deer’s front line of defense is its senses of smell, hearing and sight. Fool these three senses and you’re on your way to a successful hunt. Use these senses to your advantage and you could take a trophy.
Fooling these senses means that you reached your stand or hunting location undetected and relatively free of human odor, you’ve positioned your stand to take advantage of the wind so the odor you produce will flow away from where you think the deer will come, and that you’re remaining quiet and sitting still.
Using these senses to your advantage means that you’ve laid down a scent trail around your stand and/or placed out some scent and have a realistic-sounding grunt or bleat call and a rattle bag at your side, and maybe even a deer decoy strategically placed in an open area near your stand (again, only during archery season).
Fooling these senses means that you reached your stand or hunting location undetected and relatively free of human odor, you’ve positioned your stand to take advantage of the wind so the odor you produce will flow away from where you think the deer will come, and that you’re remaining quiet and sitting still.
Using these senses to your advantage means that you’ve laid down a scent trail around your stand and/or placed out some scent and have a realistic-sounding grunt or bleat call and a rattle bag at your side, and maybe even a deer decoy strategically placed in an open area near your stand (again, only during archery season).
