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Smells that take you back.

Ripening wild grape in a mixed hard woods transitioning to 5-7 year successional growth. I grew up in a steep valley in the very beginnings of the Appalachian range. Foothills really, but my first ever squirrel, a black squirrel, was taken amidst the wild grape and hazelnut shrubs and mixed hardwoods. We didn’t have many oaks there so the hickory and beech nuts were the main mast. That smell is so distinctive I wish I could bottle it. Every so often I come upon a spot somewhere that smells just like and immediately I think of that first hunt. Burned into me!!
 
MattMan81 said:
Cleaning my gun today with the fresh fall air, and early morning hunting. The smell of Hoops #9 solvent blasts me back to being 14. Shooting my first gun and cleaning it. The preparation of gun season and becoming a man.
What other smells you guys have that bring memories of hunting?
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That one always gets me. Still feel like I’m young every time I clean my guns.

Farmer working the field took me back last week. Smell of the field as the corn came out and then the tractor and soil getting turned over few days later. Felt like I was 8 years old walking to the tractor to go ride with my dad when he worked for farmers in the fall and how cool I felt going out myself to get to do that and earn some money myself when I was a teenager. Don’t think they’d trust me to run one of the newer ones these days. Haha
 
All I can drum up is the smell of the devils lettuce and chapstick. Of course when I was younger, I didn’t know that was the devils lettuce I was smelling. :tearsofjoy: Now I know why my dad would pull in the driveway and sit in the car a few minutes before coming inside. He still totes around some chapstick, but that other stuff messes with his blood pressure so it’s been a long time since he’s picked that up.
 
Mschmeiske said:
All I can drum up is the smell of the devils lettuce and chapstick. Of course when I was younger, I didn’t know that was the devils lettuce I was smelling. :tearsofjoy: Now I know why my dad would pull in the driveway and sit in the car a few minutes before coming inside. He still totes around some chapstick, but that other stuff messes with his blood pressure so it’s been a long time since he’s picked that up.
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I never figured a left handed would cause high blood pressure. It always brought mine down. It’s the best anger management med out there. To bad I can’t concentrate enough to work on it.


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Cedar takes me back to the days my Stepfather always set up in them and his clothes were steeped in cedar smell. Machine oil takes me back to the days my Dad worked in a screw machine factory. Crown Royal reminds me of stupid juvenile stunts.
 
I remember when I was a kid '71 we hunted from the ground from make shift ground blinds and used an apple cover scent. I was peeling apples out in the yard for applesauce and was taken back in history.
 
Idk why but every time I smell a squirrel, even though I’ve hunted and continue to hunt them my entire life, I get taken back to a specific hunt the first time I got my limit when I was 11. Have no idea why the smell takes me to that day but it’s nostalgic to say the least.
 
The_Fit_Ness_Monster said:
Idk why but every time I smell a squirrel, even though I’ve hunted and continue to hunt them my entire life, I get taken back to a specific hunt the first time I got my limit when I was 11. Have no idea why the smell takes me to that day but it’s nostalgic to say the least.
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You can smell squirrels?
 
kstetar said:
You can smell squirrels?
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Squirrels are the nastiest, stinkin'est animal the world has ever known. They stink on the outside, and I'm yet to find a smell more nauseating than the insides of one. Maybe I just shot a thousand too many and got burned out. But yeah, you can definitely smell a squirrel. I'd rather a billy goat live in my house.
 
The_Fit_Ness_Monster said:
Yeah lol and idk what Nutter is talking about, squirrel smell is not stinky at all that I’ve found, they smell like idk how to explain it but it’s not bad (to me). Lol
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You must have grown up with a hamster cage in your bedroom. ;)

A squirrel smells like what it is. A rat. They're still tasty, but I have to treat them like catfish. Can't clean em and eat em in the same day.
 
Nutterbuster said:
You must have grown up with a hamster cage in your bedroom. ;)

A squirrel smells like what it is. A rat. They're still tasty, but I have to treat them like catfish. Can't clean em and eat em in the same day.
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Lmao idk what you’re talking about, skint to pot is what happens to the first few killed for the year. The only thing I can’t skin and eat the same day is nutria sometimes rabbits also.
 
Nutterbuster said:
You must have grown up with a hamster cage in your bedroom. ;)

A squirrel smells like what it is. A rat. They're still tasty, but I have to treat them like catfish. Can't clean em and eat em in the same day.
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I shot a squirrel for the first time a month ago in a long time. First thing I noticed when I picked it up was it's stank
 
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