What Percentage of the Time Do You Think Deer Blow/Snort When They Wind You?

[Bogle]

Pretty much what everyone else has said. However, I find that I get busted a lot more in the warmer months than in the cooler months, and I almost never get busted during the rut.

 

[Lucky13]

I posted in this thread last night and was reminded of it in the dark this morning when a deer blew at me. I usually don't get that while hunting around my farm and on the same train mentioned above about deer doing 180's rather than making all that noise but today was different.. When the sun started to come up, more blows. Then two more separate occasions and different locations more deer blowing at me. One was a young buck.
I started to think I was in a crap location until 9am when this guy gave me a shot. He was a rut deer. No brows and busted up left side. Never had him on any camera and not sure where he lived.

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

I posted in this thread last night and was reminded of it in the dark this morning when a deer blew at me. I usually don't get that while hunting around my farm and on the same train mentioned above about deer doing 180's rather than making all that noise but today was different.. When the sun started to come up, more blows. Then two more separate occasions and different locations more deer blowing at me. One was a young buck.
I started to think I was in a crap location until 9am when this guy gave me a shot. He was a rut deer. No brows and busted up left side. Never had him on any camera and not sure where he lived.
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That’s a bad mammajamma! And great story.
Look at his dark nose, that’s wild. Is it from rubbing or do you think it’s his actual fur color? could be some ancient odocoileus dna if his face is marked up like that.
Awesome deer!

 

[Lucky13]

That's his fur. Big deer.. Weight, head, cool looking deer for sure.
I guess my point was, just because a deer blows it doesn't always mean your hunt is ruined.
Here's a trick that can work and has for me many times when they do blow... (if they don't get 100% shot of human stink up their nose)
Blow back at them.
I have killed a lot of deer by blowing back at them and several that came right back to my tree from 100 yards away

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

That's his fur. Big deer.. Weight, head, cool looking deer for sure.
I guess my point was, just because a deer blows it doesn't always mean your hunt is ruined.
Here's a trick that can work and has for me many times when they do blow... (if they don't get 100% shot of human stink up their nose)
Blow back at them.
I have killed a lot of deer by blowing back at them and several that came right back to my tree from 100 yards away

you’re the first person I’ve ever seen suggest that. that sounds freaking brilliant. I’ll try (almost) anything twice.

 

[Plebe]

Sometimes they’re not blowing at you.

This morning at right about shooting light, I had a deer blowing I thought at me. Like at least 30 times. But it kept coming in. When it materialized the buck made a scrape at about 20yds and then walked right by my tree.

Maybe 5min-10min earlier, a big bodied buck had walked by me at about 25yds. I could hear another deer not far off. Then, probably 50yds from me, there was a snort wheeze and what sounded like a pretty decent brawl.

Everything (me, buck fight) was upwind of the incoming satellite buck.

 

[woodsdog2]

12 points for the contest. I'd shoot it

Just don’t eat it.

 

[woodsdog2]

That's his fur. Big deer.. Weight, head, cool looking deer for sure.
my point was, just because a deer blows it doesn't always mean your hunt is ruined.
Here's a trick that can work and has for me many times when they do blow... (if they don't get 100% shot of human stink up their nose)
Blow back at them.
I have killed a lot of deer by blowing back at them and several that came right back to my tree from 100 yards away

I’ve used this trick before as well! If you’ve been around deer a lot and with my age I have, I guess. Anyway, they “bluff blow” a lot. Used to think they were always blowing at me but then they would circle sround, looking the other way and attention focused and you can hear them do those slight Puffs and they will blow when they don’t smell you either…. It’s an alarm mechanism or it’s a dominance and communication mechanism. The snort wheeze is a similar example but they will also puff at each other a lot. I’ve also had several times, deer see me but not recognize me as human and blow and the wind was coming from them to me. They will keep trying to figure you out until they do or you kill them first. Bigger bucks I’ve not witnessed this level of curiosity.

 

[Lucky13]

We are on the same page. It’s basically a tool that can work on does. I consider it a freezer filler move to try when your wind isn’t blowing at them.