A Tree Stand Misadventure

[Watertender]

This morning at breakfast my friend Burt had us laughing about his son and his bow hunting fiasco from his tree stand.

He was watching a nice big 10 point buck and calling him in. The buck was being cautious but slowly approaching the tree stand.

The biggest problem was that Burt's son had eaten some chili and his system was working on solving the energy problem shall we say....

He was holding in the gas bubble for over an hour and the buck was just out of arrow range. Just as he was getting ready to draw back and let fly with the arrow he let fly with something else.

The buck heard the fart and raised his head and started sniffing the air. The scent of second hand chili permeated the air and the buck got a whiff of the cloud... The buck let out with a snort and took off running.

He tried calling the buck back in but the buck wouldn't fall for it. So he came home without a deer yesterday.

 

[Enigma]

I can commiserate. Note to self: don't eat anything that creates gas or causes other gastro-intestinal discomfort for two days before hunting!

 

[eveled]

that is pretty funny.

My father wanted to take a thermos of coffee out to the stand. But was worried about the smell. So he had the brilliant idea (I recommended it). Of taking hot apple cider instead. Deer love apples. So the theory was it would attract them. Only trouble was it gave him diarrhea!

Same trip he was sleeping in a farm house with no heat. Wrapped in his GI cold weather mummy bag (I also recommended). He was warm as toast, but the zipper got stuck! he somehow squeezed himself out of the little face hole enough to get to a knife and cut himself out!

That was the last time he went deer hunting.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

I've used rattle horns, grunt calls and doe bleats to call in bucks very successfully in the past.....a lot of those grunt calls sound very much like a butt puff....that deer must have heard it, initially thought there's another buck near, got a whiff and thought the other buck was covered in something terrible and wanted no part of it!

 

[contender]

That's a very funny one for sure. Not the first time I've heard of that happening though. Deer have a very good nose & it helps them survive. He didn't get to be a nice 10 pointer being dumb.


Beano.

To help me from ever having any unwanted scents while hunting,, I start using Beano a few days prior to hunting.

 

[eveled]

Beano! Should be his new nickname.