Long reply, sorry....
Before work this morning I took a scent free soap shower, used the Arm and Hammer deo, then went to work. I came in early so I could get into a stand. I noticed my dad was burning a brush pile when I got home. We live next door to them. I ran in, changed into my hunting clothes, hopped on the 4 wheeler and pulled down wind of his brush pile. The smoke was rolling out of it and I sat there maybe a minute. I had never tried using smoke as a cover scent before, but with the wind swirling as it was this afternoon I figured it couldn't hurt.
I got to the stand on my food plot at 4:20. At 4:50 a couple of does and some yearlings came out in the plot about 80 yards away. They fed out into the middle of the plot and decided to camp out until way after dark. The wind had swirled all afternoon and I was surprised they didn't smell me. I didn't want to spook the deer, so when shooting time had passed I lowered my bow to the ground and sent a text to my wife asking her to drive over and run the deer out of the plot with my truck. As I saw her coming through the back pasture I looked to my right and saw 2 big bodied deer about 25 yards downwind of me in the plot. When my wife got to the food plot, I could see in the lights that there were 4 deer and all 4 were bucks. Nothing big, 2 spikes and 2 small forkhorns, or small 6's, but I had bucks downwind all the same. Until I see something different, I'm gonna smoke my clothes pretty often.
