Thursday, November 1, 2012
Macho Macho Man
Can you imagine what the typical hunter smells like? I wonder what the nose jammer shampoo scent is.
Do they really need fake deer poop? Do they spray themselves, or just the nearest tree, with the female deer in estrus product? What's in a buck licker? I know there are a dozen other things they can buy to smear on themselves and their surroundings. Did Dad gussy himself up with all this junk, or did he just go to the camp, eat some oysters, sleep late, then walk around and look for deer?
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Well I had to look up these products...Buck Lickers are flavored mineral blocks designed to enhance antler growth. Buck Bomb is sprayed on trees and bushes to attract the deer, not on the hunter. But they do use the vanilla/anise scented Nose Jammer to hide the human scent.
ReplyDeleteI always imagined Daddy sat up late around a campfire drinking beer. How many days does it take to shoot a deer? Wasn't he gone for a couple of days?
The odors made the think of something...Remember how stinky that catfish bait was? I'll never forget Lindsey's face!
I think it takes a day to hunt, then a night and a day to brag about it, drink, and eat oysters. I have a few pictures of him sitting around their campfire doing that. I remember he always smelled good and smokey when he got home, then how awful it smelled when he cleaned the muzzle-loader.
DeleteI suppose putting out deer lickers is no worse than spreading corn twice a day for months, in order to shoot the deer. I wonder why regular shampoo/perfume. or just bathing that morning, wouldn't work. Vanilla/anise isn't a smell they'd be used to in the wild.Maybe deer prefer vanilla. Last year we made the mistake of driving by our land during the opening day. We topped the hill and saw a dozen or so guys standing in the road in total camoflage, even their guns and 4 wheelers were camo. We didn't know what day it was, and my first thought was that they were some sort of hillbilly Bandidos.
ReplyDeleteDon't we have her smelling that bait on video? Do you have it, or do we?
I think I have it. From the day we stood on the edge of your pond and watched Mr.Turtle come back to eat from your hand. That was so amazing.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten how stinky the muzzle loader was until you wrote that. I remember looking in the trunk one time when he just got home from a hunt and seeing a deer in it. Traumatic. I don't know why he brought it home instead of taking it to the....butcher? Processing plant? What did he call it? .I can't even remember.