can deer smell PBJ??

[DoubleDropTineTrouble]

With the gun opener coming and plans to sit all day with some snacks...can deer smell Peanut Butter??

I take a lot of precautions to keep my scent down, but i know that i can smell peanut butter when i walk in a room. Anyone been busted with a PBJ in hand?

[Skibum]

Deer like PB.

[old graybeard]

Careful some might call that baiting:D

[Skibum]

Careful some might call that baiting:D


:lol::lol::lol:

[Wishn I was fishn]

Careful some might call that baiting:D

Only if you allow the deer to sit in you lap and eat it. Good luck with that one.:D

[maliki]

I'm most sure they can. during late season hunts I always put PB on branches of small saplings and the deer go right to it. I used PB on the last weekend in December when I couldn't harvest that last buck and wanted to fill the freezer. It worked everytime.

Now with the baiting ban, I'm gonna have to try a different approach if I have any tags left-over.

[tikki50]

Where's that picture of the hunter fallen asleep and the deer eating his PBJ - Captioned 'No Baiting' LOL......

[Chocha]

With the gun opener coming and plans to sit all day with some snacks...can deer smell Peanut Butter??

I take a lot of precautions to keep my scent down, but i know that i can smell peanut butter when i walk in a room. Anyone been busted with a PBJ in hand?


Forget the deer.. Watch out for me to come rolling in with my nose in the air.. I love PBJ...

[Herb@BBT]

Don't know about PBJ but I had some does bust me once after I got done eating some chocolate.

I had some does coming down a trail and then all of a sudden the lead doe stops and lifts her nose in the air. I had just eaten a handful of the small Hershey bars. Cold clear day, lots of snow, etc. They did not panic, she just led the rest of them off on another trail.

I just knew I was going to get one for the freezer before she smelled something that did not fit. Oh well...... If it had been human odor she would have bolted for sure....

[harpo1]

Good rule of thumb.....If you can smell it, so can a deer most likely!

Whether or not it spooks them is another story.

[Skibum]

Don't know about PBJ but I had some does bust me once after I got done eating some chocolate.

I had some does coming down a trail and then all of a sudden the lead doe stops and lifts her nose in the air. I had just eaten a handful of the small Hershey bars. Cold clear day, lots of snow, etc. They did not panic, she just led the rest of them off on another trail.

I just knew I was going to get one for the freezer before she smelled something that did not fit. Oh well...... If it had been human odor she would have bolted for sure....

Not true. It's not true that deer always bolt from human odor. If that was true they would be running wildly all the time in many areas. Generally they do just what you described although often from a distance you may not even see it.

[Swamp Monster]

With the gun opener coming and plans to sit all day with some snacks...can deer smell Peanut Butter??

I take a lot of precautions to keep my scent down, but i know that i can smell peanut butter when i walk in a room. Anyone been busted with a PBJ in hand?

Nope. See, in Michigan, all of the deer have been bred specifically to get the Peanut Butter Scent gene to become dormant. This was an agreement with the Deer Gods back in 1778....man needed one advantage and his yearning for PB&J while in the woods was too much to overcome. Deer soon associated PB&J with man and became much to weary...hence the agreement with the deer gods. Now, we hunters can partake in the ritual PB&J lunch during deer hunting....usually the smashed version for many. The only problem today....the Bear Gods were never our friends and have seen to it that bears, even those down for their winter nap, crave PB&J even more than man himself. So PB&J eater, beware, momma Bear is hungry too!


Ok want an honest answer....um, yeah. If they can smell a human over a mile away, I would guess that PB&J within gun range is a gimme. But, hey it's just a wild shot in the dark! :lol:

[Selectiveharvest]

What about venison jerky? Do you think they recognize it as one of their own?
Who cares, the beauty of gun season is that by the time they get close enough to smell PB&J, jerky, chocolate, beer, cigs, etc. they should be in the crosshairs already.
The buck I shot last year required me to take the cig out of my mouth, and hold it and the muzzle, while the other hand squeezed the trigger. I was able to finish my smoke while the deer stumbled to his demise!

[RippinLipp]

Why remove the cig. If your good you can leave it in your mouth. I've shoot a few with my bow while having a cig hanging out of my mouth:lol:

As far as PB, I heard they did a test at a ranch a few years back with PB and someother stuff and deer always went for the PB before anything else.

[SPITFIRE]

think about it.... what creature doesn't like PB. It will probably bring in the hogs too.

[marty]

Deer love peanut butter. Years ago when we could bait my wife use to get these big tubs of the stuff where she worked at. I put one in a crooked of a tree. A couple days later I watch a spike licking the daylights of of it. He stood back and just kept licking his chops like he couldn't get enough of it:D

I think he needed a glass of milk after that:lol:

[Uncle Boopoo]

PB&J wash my lunch today, while I pulled an all dayer. Just like Swamp Monster said, they were the smashed version:lol:

I was hunting in a ground blind today, and had a doe come in to a bleat can. She was only 10 yds when I spotted her. She came right to the sound of the bleat, but when she got near, she started taking BIG sniffs of air. I thought I was busted BUT, she came even closer! Too close! I couldn't move. She kept half circling my blind and sniffing the air. My only guess was the paper towel that had peanut butter on it, sitting next to me. Or the peanut butter smell still on my breath. She never did spook and eventually just walked away grazing.

[Herb@BBT]

I am always amazed by deer behaviour. I really did think they smelled the "chocolate".....