East TN wildfires moving deer?

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psubuzz

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It's really smokey here in Knoxville, and I know some areas I hunt are even worse. A lease I'm on in campbell county was terrible last weekend too. I'm wondering what you guys think might be going through deer's heads about all this smoke. Do you think they are smart enough to go down the mountains into valleys to get as far away from the smoke as possible? Or do you think they continue on with their lives as normal? At sunrise on the ML opener I couldn't see 25 yds because of the smoke, but managed to smoke a doe on a oak bench pretty close to the top of a ridge. That was only a few days after the fires started, but now that things have been smokey for this long, I'm thinking I might need a new strategy. Any advice or what are you guys in the smokey area seeing?
 
Start some fires in the valley around the mountain and let the fire push the deer to the top. You should do well as long as someone can get the fire put out before it gets to you. If that doesn't work out send pics of your kills out before you are overtaken or no one will believe you.
 

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