Can you smell if a buck is bedding near or around a certain area?
Not smelling a scrape or rub up close, but just general walking around and suddenly getting a big whiff of buck?
Curious because as I was leaving my spot last night in the dark, I tried to navigate thru a thicket and got back in there, turned around, and got hit with a pungent animal smell. Really present and identifiable scent. It was dark so I didn’t get a good look around, but I marked it as a spot to return to another time.
It’s early season of course. I don’t know how bucks might be behaving differently now as opposed to the rut and in. But I wondered if there might be one in that thicket, bedding down.
Not smelling a scrape or rub up close, but just general walking around and suddenly getting a big whiff of buck?
Curious because as I was leaving my spot last night in the dark, I tried to navigate thru a thicket and got back in there, turned around, and got hit with a pungent animal smell. Really present and identifiable scent. It was dark so I didn’t get a good look around, but I marked it as a spot to return to another time.
It’s early season of course. I don’t know how bucks might be behaving differently now as opposed to the rut and in. But I wondered if there might be one in that thicket, bedding down.
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