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Conditioning Deer to Human Odor/Scent
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5154697" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Marlin308,</p><p></p><p>I eagerly await the results of your experiment!</p><p></p><p>However, on the question of, "Can you condition deer to your personal scent?", I think the answer is, Yes. I say this after years of running trail-cams in out of the way places from early August through January, visiting them weekly. I've been doing this on my property for over 20 years. I firmly believe this activity, in combination with working in my food plots off and on throughout the year, with my ability to "get away with more" than the other hunters on my property. Now will deer still spook at my scent? In very close proximity, yes. But I have witnessed a freakish number of occurrences where they did NOT react negatively, even when I KNEW they could smell me (directly downwind, and/or crossing my obvious scent trail).</p><p></p><p>Now I still wash all my hunting clothes in scent reducing soaps, and do much to keep my scent trails down (never wear my hunting boots inside a vehicle where they can pick up oil and gasoline smells), and I won't place a trail-camera where I can't drive my ATV right to it, but I'm still in the woods A LOT outside of deer season. I ABSOLUTELY believe all this activity <u>when I'm causing the deer no harm</u> gives me an edge come deer season. The deer still smell me when I'm on stand, but my scent is ever-present <u>everywhere</u> on the property year round, and 99% of the time causes the deer no harm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5154697, member: 17"] Marlin308, I eagerly await the results of your experiment! However, on the question of, "Can you condition deer to your personal scent?", I think the answer is, Yes. I say this after years of running trail-cams in out of the way places from early August through January, visiting them weekly. I've been doing this on my property for over 20 years. I firmly believe this activity, in combination with working in my food plots off and on throughout the year, with my ability to "get away with more" than the other hunters on my property. Now will deer still spook at my scent? In very close proximity, yes. But I have witnessed a freakish number of occurrences where they did NOT react negatively, even when I KNEW they could smell me (directly downwind, and/or crossing my obvious scent trail). Now I still wash all my hunting clothes in scent reducing soaps, and do much to keep my scent trails down (never wear my hunting boots inside a vehicle where they can pick up oil and gasoline smells), and I won't place a trail-camera where I can't drive my ATV right to it, but I'm still in the woods A LOT outside of deer season. I ABSOLUTELY believe all this activity [U]when I'm causing the deer no harm[/U] gives me an edge come deer season. The deer still smell me when I'm on stand, but my scent is ever-present [U]everywhere[/U] on the property year round, and 99% of the time causes the deer no harm. [/QUOTE]
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