Like many others, I was skeptical of the Scent Smoker for the first few years that I was aware of it. Finally, last season I took the plunge and bought one... and it didn't take me long to fall in love with it. Since then, I've had a few deer get downwind of me that never paid much attention... All well and good, but none of those events put the Smoker to much of a test, in my opinion. Well,this afternoon, it passed one of the hardest tests I could have put it through.
I was walking to an inside corner of a corn field and it was kind of late... 4:45 p.m... later than I usually like to be getting set up. As I got to within 100 yds of the corner, I heard deer take off up in front of me and I could see a couple white flags through the branches. I immediately crouched where I was, and the deer paused for a minute. There were three of them, all does. One doe circled around behind me, upwind, but the other two went the opposite direction... directly downwind! The two that were downwind just paced back and forth, trying to think of a way to get past me to the other deer. As they did, the SSE wind pushed a steady stream of my scent right at them. Amazingly, they were only 40-50 yds away taking in nose-fulls of smoke, and not a single tail ever went up. Eventually the deer that was behind me walked off, but the two that were downwind just wouldn't leave! After what seemed like ten or fifteen minutes, I just said hell with it and stood up... I was running out of daylight and needed to get into a tree! Obviously once I stood up, the two deer took off through the woods.
Before tonight, my confidence in the Scent Smoker was at about 95%... but after this experience, it's at like 110%. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Scent Smoker kept those deer from thinking I was dangerous. These deer were already spooked from me walking up... They saw me walking and then when I crouched... They got directly downwind of me at a mere 40 yds, ON THE GROUND... And yet they still didn't become alarmed. This thing is amazing... plain and simple.
I was walking to an inside corner of a corn field and it was kind of late... 4:45 p.m... later than I usually like to be getting set up. As I got to within 100 yds of the corner, I heard deer take off up in front of me and I could see a couple white flags through the branches. I immediately crouched where I was, and the deer paused for a minute. There were three of them, all does. One doe circled around behind me, upwind, but the other two went the opposite direction... directly downwind! The two that were downwind just paced back and forth, trying to think of a way to get past me to the other deer. As they did, the SSE wind pushed a steady stream of my scent right at them. Amazingly, they were only 40-50 yds away taking in nose-fulls of smoke, and not a single tail ever went up. Eventually the deer that was behind me walked off, but the two that were downwind just wouldn't leave! After what seemed like ten or fifteen minutes, I just said hell with it and stood up... I was running out of daylight and needed to get into a tree! Obviously once I stood up, the two deer took off through the woods.
Before tonight, my confidence in the Scent Smoker was at about 95%... but after this experience, it's at like 110%. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Scent Smoker kept those deer from thinking I was dangerous. These deer were already spooked from me walking up... They saw me walking and then when I crouched... They got directly downwind of me at a mere 40 yds, ON THE GROUND... And yet they still didn't become alarmed. This thing is amazing... plain and simple.
That's why i tell people, buy one, put it to the test day 1. Do something you would NEVER try, and i bet it works.. 
