Deer smell ???

[NoCams]

My father in law and I were bebopping up a logging road one day years ago after scouting a new area and I stopped in my tracks.... He asked what was wrong ? When I told him I smelled where the deer crossed the logging road he thought I was nuts ! I moved back and forth about 10yds till I homed in EXACTLY where they crossed. I put him down close to the ground and he then smelled it too ! Just like Bill Carlsen said, " smells like a goat."    

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[702plmo]

The reason I asked was my wife came home from hunting and said, "Do not laugh at me but I thought I smelled a deer."   I told her that I have smelled deer before and she did not believe me.    
   I placed her stand down wind of a bedding area.   She told me that she smelled a deer and a few minutes later she heard a "Grunt"   She used a can call and the buck responded several times.    She described where she heard the deer as it was moving.
   It was classic.   The deer got up from the bedding area and circled up wind of her.   The deer used the cover of the thicket to travel and circled down wind of her and stopped grunting.    
   She did not see the deer at all.

[Rico]

Thats amazing Eric do you work into the wind while hunting hopeing to detect game. What is your the first sence that detects deer for you. I am pretty much limited to sight and sound and when I do smell one his superior sences have out done mine. Somewhere along the way we somehow lost this sence of smell for most of us.

[Eric Krewson]

I can't work into the wind and smell game with any regularity because they move away ahead of me and out of the air stream. I have to be stationary and have them move in up wind.

[Rico]

Understood thanks and Good Hunting

[Gordon martiniuk]

More garlic was what an old hunting friend used to say and yes Deer Bucks  smell in the heat of the rut besides ther glands that are in overdrive the do urninate on themselves the best thing to do is gut your deer as soon as possable then if you have snow fill the body cavaty with snow and the rapid cooling seemes to help  make sure when skinning do not rub the smell into you meat keep the skin away and you will be ok if not more garlic  

[eagle24]

I have smelled deer several times before they got into sight.  First few times I thought I was imagining it, but I have no doubt you can sometimes smell them.