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Buck smell

I've definitely smelled deer before. Generally I also saw them after, either they came out to me, or I went in too close and busted them.

Also smelled something in Alaska a few weeks ago. It was getting dark and we were in brown bear territory so we were too chicken to go check it out and risk getting eaten. Animals definitely have unique smells.
 
Back when I was young and a very burgeoning bowhunter just learning to hunt, with not very much discretionary income to afford a treestand and a climbing method, I used to still hunt an old enduro run on my grandmothers farm. They would have the run in September so all of bow season the trail was super quiet walking. I knew where the deer were bedded and that enduro path almost perfectly headed along a southwesterly direction right into the wind and a bedding area. I knew I was getting close when I could smell ‘em! The best was doing that during the rut with a slight snow falling….. the bucks I would run into along that path humbled me bad but I still remember them vividly in my mind. The smell of them as well!
 
Wish my sniffer worked like that. I can smell a fire is about only smell I can distinguish outdoors anymore. Occasionally a pine tree.
 
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