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whats everyone opinion on smoking while hunting ?
not just turkey, how about when sitting for deer, bear, or even waterfowl ?
im New to big game hunting, but from my experience with small game and birds, they dont see nor care for smoke, maybe it even helps mask my scent ?
The biggest curse of smoking while hunting is the movement associated with it.
The smoke itself - not an issue for birds, and for other game - it's no worse than the rest of the human smell you're putting into the air.
If the wind isn't in your favour - they'll smell you and your smoke - not sure that the smoke makes a difference. If the wind is in your favour, it's no harm / no foul.
...and that "mask your scent..." thing - scent doesn't work that way with animals. Only human noses can be fooled that easily.
When smoking was popular decades ago many deer fell to a smokers bullet.
Wind in your favour and minimal movement is the key. Zero movement if the game is staring at you.
Ya, the smoke is not the issue, if it smells the smoke, it smells you.... Movement is the issue...
It defintely doesn't matter, The guys I know that have shot many big bucks over the years smoke while on stand. As others have said, If they smell smoke they will smell you.
Just call it your wind checker if anyone your hunting with says anything haha.
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My brother is the luckiest guy in our deer camp. His success stories start in one of two ways:
"Well, I just lit a smoke and..."
Or
"I had just finished a smoke when..."
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lol, ive had does come within 20 yards of me while smoking, sometimes theyll give you the little fake up and down head movement for a solid minute trying to fake me out or something lol, they stay put tho, other times they dont even look my way at all, this is on the ground no blind just a burlap, and some natural cover, my father and cousins both smoke as well, we dont seem to have a issue getting our limit every year lol
GW11 THATS MY DAD LOL, every time he lights a smoke BANG and i get a text saying to get the atv LOL
I took quite a few big game animals before I quit smoking (15 years ago) and I've dropped quite a few since. I really doubt that it makes a difference other than I sure feel and can breath a lot better.
Game usually come out just after you light up a cigarette
cherry cigars work on deer
Just be ready to spit it out in a safe zone lol
Specially during black powder season charge pouch sitting near
I hunt with guy in Michigan that smokes while turkey hunting (in a blind). It does not seem to bother the birds but his blind looks like a teepee complete with the smoke signals from a distance
Myself, I took a couple of turkeys & deer while saying in my mind "well, just let me put my smoke down please, & then will talk"; followed by a boom! lol
Not much of turkey hunter,but once i read ,based on turkey eye and hearing being excellent-it turkey could smell as good as they could see and hear, they would be non huntable.;)
I shot lots of big game with a cigarette in my mouth. I did play the wind though.
Like many have said I don’t think cigarette cigar smoke make a difference. But flash of that bic has gotten me once that I know of
Depends on what you are smoking ? That funny stuff makes me fall asleep but a regular tobacco ... no problem. Otherwise if done safely ie; fire hazards go for it ! Albeit first and last light is a bad time to fire one up as either the flick of a Bic or the glow of your smoke every time you suck on it will give you away .
During a deer hunt with friends, we were on individual stands. One guy had a smoke in one hand, coffee in the other, deer walks out, puts coffee down, shoots deer dead? For years, I've been very careful with scent but for that guy it worked.
I just happened to bring my first one home after having a smoke in a blind.
But the wind was in the face though, so don't know if it reached the deer
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Probably you used a strawberry scented smoke ,
that is why you get lucky ....
But in this winter Moose hunt will be same ...!
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Originally Posted by newbiehunter
No need for smoke when you have edibles.
No,but,they hear chip bags and gigglin' a mile away.:moose::moose:Quote:
Originally Posted by canadaman30
Like others have said it is the movement, I have shot deer and turkeys not long after having a smoke and I have also been busted , I remember thinking ah nothing around I will have a smoke after lighting it and looking up to a couple white tails headed the opposite way, I am sure all smokers have been busted while not even knowing it. The less you do while in the stand the better the odds of a successful hunt, although most smokers are willing to take the risk.
I think the movement - fidgeting with lighting and smoking - is far more damaging that the smoke itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coonhound
I agree with Werner.Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche