camp fires smells mean nothing to an elk or deer.
the smell of burning wood is a natural thing.
and is one of the best coverups you can have.
most of you young pups hav been fed so much garbage about smells that it stinks.
two years ago i sat on a burn line that was a good 4 or 5 years old.
i could kick up the soil and still smell the smoke.
while sitting there i had 2 cows walk down the trail, walking into the wind. They passes 6 feet from my purch amungst some old root snarls.
and didn't even bat a eye.
I had sat around the camp fire the previous evening and filled my cloths with the smell.
now you tell me.
i had a buddy who is an old indian, not that neans any thing, show me a trick in getting the elk to come down early in the evening si to first locate where they are bedded then set up, upwind and build a small camp fire. so that the smoke drifts to them. beleive it or not they will come.
somke bullcrappy,
now i could understand it if they said don't piss into the wind or crap on you shoe,
But smoke give me a break,