Does anyone still use their smoker? I love it, can’t even remember who I bought it from on here. Works great, guys down in NC have never heard of using smoke. I have seen it work amazingly at 15 yards.
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Big_Holla
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I rarely use it any more and have stopped smoking my good bowhunting clothes altogether. I will occasionally fire it up and allow it to waft around while I'm getting geared up, but I stopped pre-smoking my stuff 2 years ago due to it ruining some stuff. I've been extremely successful the past 2 seasons reverting to the classic scent free method in combo with Evercalm and an open bottle of Black Widow Buck Butter.
I still think smoke can be effective, but it will ruin clothes if you're not careful and with far less people burning wood stoves around here, it's not that common of a smell nowadays. I love the smell and the ritual, but it was time to make an adjustment.
I still think smoke can be effective, but it will ruin clothes if you're not careful and with far less people burning wood stoves around here, it's not that common of a smell nowadays. I love the smell and the ritual, but it was time to make an adjustment.
Sure do! I just got done doing a load of laundry today, followed up by a full smoke in the cabinet around noon, then hit again while getting dressed a bit of ago.
When Brock said he was done selling them, I bought 2 lol. The old one is retired and dates back to around '06, one is in action, and one in the box. Figure i got another 25-30yrs covered.
Outside burners are everywhere up here, and I don't hunt the wind at all anymore. Only thing I would not do it to was a good set of new clothes for out west or something. I dont spend a lot of $ on camo so most likely won't have to worry about it for awhile lol. For my style and level of hunting, it hits the spot!
When Brock said he was done selling them, I bought 2 lol. The old one is retired and dates back to around '06, one is in action, and one in the box. Figure i got another 25-30yrs covered.
Outside burners are everywhere up here, and I don't hunt the wind at all anymore. Only thing I would not do it to was a good set of new clothes for out west or something. I dont spend a lot of $ on camo so most likely won't have to worry about it for awhile lol. For my style and level of hunting, it hits the spot!
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Never hunt without using it.
Has worked great for me,the buck i shot this year was downwind of me with a big doe and smaller buck for close to 30 minutes and never knew i was there.
Had lots of deer downwind this year and not one knew i was there.
Has worked great for me,the buck i shot this year was downwind of me with a big doe and smaller buck for close to 30 minutes and never knew i was there.
Had lots of deer downwind this year and not one knew i was there.
OO2
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Smoking up doesn’t work. Ya gotta have a couple $Xk worth of ozonics to kill big bucks
I don't think anything will work for my rank ass. I used to try hard but I've given up and hunt the wind hope for the best. I'll give this a whirl though can't hurt what I do.
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Mason will hardly leave the yard without smoking himself. He marched right into a good bucks bedroom three times this year with questionable wind. He should have killed that buck each time but it didn’t work out, fortunately.
Fortunately is right! Crazy how hunting works sometimes.
I used to use the smoker religiously. I certainly believe that it works more often than not. I did have a few "poor" reactions from deer, although far fewer than "good" or should I say non-reactions. For me, like Jesse, it now simply boils down to my personal aversion to putting a permanent smoke-smell into my high dollar hunting clothes. My Sitka stuff holds resale value EXTREMELY well... just as long as it doesn't smell like a camp fire. Over the past 3 seasons I've switched back to scent-free washing and hunting smarter in regards to wind direction. And in doing so, I've had noticeably more encounters with mature deer. Now, I'm not saying mature deer avoid smoke. I just think that, when I was a religious scent-smoker, I was more likely to hunt carelessly because I considered myself more bulletproof. I simply took more chances... stupidly. Removing the smoker from my routine has left me no choice but to hunt smarter. That's just my personal stance on it.
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NAC1989
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Every time I go out! I just recently started using cherry wood chips instead of hickory because the store was out and they seem to work better. Don’t know if it’s just a fluke or what.