Cigarettes question

[fourfive8]

I too have hunted with a guy who smoked for many years. He quit ten years ago but even when he smoked WHILE elk/deer hunting, he managed to get his animal on a regular basis. Maybe he was lucky with the wind direction all those years or my guess is the animals don't know what cigarette smoke is so it doesn't spook them. Same with campfire smoke on your clothes and distance gun shots. They often smell fires burning in the mountains and hear thunder often in their habitat. From my experience, movements by the hunter will spook them way more often than any of the above factors.

Yes, agreed^

I quit a long time ago. Never affected hunting one way or another for me as the idea has always been to keep known or target animals upwind. Probably bothers people more than game... and for certain affects some people psychologically, whether they're upwind or not or can smell cigarette smoke or not. I've watched herds of elk moving in and out of slow moving prescribed burn fires seeming to prefer it as it may mask them and would tend to keep bugs at bay. As good as the sense of smell many animals have is, I believe tobacco smoke to them is just another interesting odor among many they analyze. If they associate any odor with danger it would more likely be lion, bear or human BO or antiperspirant more than tobacco smoke or Skoal or camp fire smoke. Who knows?... I've never asked a bear or deer or elk or coyote what they thought about it

 

[wvfred]

Cigarettes are definetly much much cheaper at the duty free shop.

 

[HankBuck]

I have dipped on every flight. Just indiscreetly. For a 21 day trip I have several times, I have had as many as 20 cans of Grizzly. Split up between. Carry on. Checked bag and guncase. Never an issue.

@Mark Biggerstaff - 20 cans of Grizzly? For ONE hunt? You must leave an easy “spit trail” to follow…. I guess it’s good if you ever get lost - just follow it back to the truck

 

[Big guns]

Don't know why people travel carrying cigarettes, I mean you can buy that at your intended location.

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

@Mark Biggerstaff - 20 cans of Grizzly? For ONE hunt? You must leave an easy “spit trail” to follow…. I guess it’s good if you ever get lost - just follow it back to the truck

Not really. When your PH and trackers bum off you the entire hunt.

 

[BryceM]

My PH was convinced elephants could smell the difference between natives and hunters. Makes some sense. Deodorant, detergent, etc is all different (or non-existent).

 

[Betterinthebush]

Not really. When your PH and trackers bum off you the entire hunt.

I never considered the mooching of dip. Figured with everyone smoking I’d get left alone. Going to drop a second tub of Stokers in the check in luggage. TFTHU!

 

[KuduKiller]

My first trip over I had a tracker that was curious about my Copenhagen when my PH told him it was tobacco. The tracker talked me into putting some on a piece of newspaper and he tried to smoke it. That didn't go well for him.

 

[KuduKiller]

Yes, agreed^

I quit a long time ago. Never affected hunting one way or another for me as the idea has always been to keep known or target animals upwind. Probably bothers people more than game... and for certain affects some people psychologically, whether they're upwind or not or can smell cigarette smoke or not. I've watched herds of elk moving in and out of slow moving prescribed burn fires seeming to prefer it as it may mask them and would tend to keep bugs at bay. As good as the sense of smell many animals have is, I believe tobacco smoke to them is just another interesting odor among many they analyze. If they associate any odor with danger it would more likely be lion, bear or human BO or antiperspirant more than tobacco smoke or Skoal or camp fire smoke. Who knows?... I've never asked a bear or deer or elk or coyote what they thought about it

For years I have chewed while in the stand and I have literally spit on deer that came under me. I believe if it’s not a “chemical” smell they don’t really care.