bigbuck24

Rack-Attack,
Can' t believe what I' m reading,after mostly reading replies and comments to all of these posts,I always found myself agreeing with either your advise or comments,but I' d hardly call it being anal about scent control if you smoke like a fien in your truck-smoke molicules permeate your skin,beard,hair,in short ,everything.Scent-lok can only do so much!

rcd567

If your going to smoke on the stand. Save your money on Camo to buy Camels. I used to hunt with a guy that smokes, when down wind, I could always smell it. He did shoot deer, mostly yearlings, but I' ve watched mature deer sniff the air and make a wide circle around his blind.

If your going to buy camo or Scent lok clothing or use any type of scents, why would you smoke on the stand? Years ago I smoked too. Even during the time I hunting with the guy mentioned above...But I didn' t smoke on the stand!

Rack-attack

Bigbuck,

I go to pretty great lengths to keep my smoking smell out of hunting.

A good month or more before the season I stop smoking in my house and my truck. Doesn' t take long to clean up the air.

In the early morning I will have a few outside with my coffee, then shower.
My clothes are never inside and I get dressed outside the truck at my spot. I wont even set foot on the road or anywhere with my rubber boots. They come off as soon as I get near my truck.

If I only hunt the morning, any outer clothes I will wear again, go in a plastic bin. I change and then smoke outside the truck.

Any clothes I have smoked with will get washed.

I never smoke after a shower and enter and exit my stands with rubber gloves on.

Oh....The only time I will smoke with my hunting clothes on and while I am in the woods is after I take one down - those two or three smokes a year are by far the best smokes I ever have

Its a bad habit bigbuck, but I do my best not to let it effect my hunting

Don' t hate me for my weakness[&:]

6ptsika

Well, I smoke, and I smoke on stand. Still manage to kill a couple mature bucks each year, and a handful of does. I don' t use any scent lok or anything like that, I just wear rubber boots that are stored in a tupperwear bin, and sprayed down with carbon spray before I walk in. I' m sure being fanatical about scent helps, but it' s not something I bother with, too much work for me. I just hunt the wind religiously, and will walk two miles out of the way to come in to my stand in a way opposite the deer. I won' t hunt a stand if the wind' s not steady and in my favor.
I won' t tell you smoking doesn' t hurt your chances a little. But I' ll be smoking this coming season, and I' ll be killing a few bucks and a bunch of does.

bigbuck24

Rack,
I feel better now! Your in good grace!! Us reformed smokers are the worse,but again,you gave me a few good tips about scent control with your reply,by the way-Great picture! To give you an idea of my passion,I' m postponing shoulder surgery until after November so that I don' t have to be a crazy man for a year!!!

norsemen

I can be 150 yard' s down wind of a guy smokin, and not see him,, you figure it
out

micah

Friends and I have had this conversation before. But first, let me say D@mn Rack-attack you ARE anal when it comes to being scent free!
But there are also those who are that anal about having the fastest bow in the state as well. To each their own.
Personally, I try to limit the amount of cigarettes in the stand, but at the same time, I have killed most of my deer right after I got through smoking, or while I was puffing away. And that does include a mature buck that I shot on the ground at 10 steps. For a while I thought it might be my good luck charm.
All that said, do I believe that smoking has no effect on the deer? No, I just believe that it doesn' t always have an effect. JMO
By the way, Red Hawk, you gave up lung cancer for gum cancer? At least lung cancer you can' t see..
Also, just to toot my own horn, I have been completely nicotene free for 3mnths. now. NO CHEATING! If I can do it, believe me, anyone can if they really want to.
Now, I' m trying to convince my wife of that.[]

Straightshot

Exactly what I say!

Tazman

I know smoking on stand is not a smart thing to do, but I will confess that I have, but only with a good steady wind, I have put cigarettes out to kill a deer. Last year I had just stuck a doe and light one up to give her some time to expire, I was about half done with the smoke when another doe came from the exact same direction as the one I just stuck had! I put the smoke out and waited for that doe to enter a shooting lane (we are allowed 2 a day in Va.), what amazed me was the doe I had stuck was laying right out in the open within 30 yards of the approaching doe, well I have to assume that this doe finally saw the other one and figured something was wrong and turned around and walked back the way she had just come. 2 more steps and I would have stuck her also.

I agree that smoking on stand is dumb as a box of rocks, but I do it sometimes and have still kiiled plenty of deer.

Robert Williams

I' m an ex-smoker and I' ve smoked in my stand a lot. And I never had any problems tagging out even on state land, which s where I usually hunt. I' ve put cigarettes out in order to draw the bow. You could smoke a box of cigars and it wouldn' t matter a bit as long as you' ve got your stand downwind. By the way, cigarette smoke is a great for determining wind direction. ;o)

But I' m glad I don' t smoke any more. When smoking, scent control is limited to staying downwind. I don' t think all the scent eliminator, carbon spray, carbon scent control suits, cover scents, etc.... can negate the overwhelmingly strong and persistent scent of stale tobacco smoke and smoker' s breath.