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Topic: Den Hole-Huffing
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2dogs
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posted January 16, 2006 06:13 AM
I 1st seen this done by my Dad & his 2 Bud's. I was a young guy back then. I thought,"What the HECK! are they doing" ![[Confused]](confused.gif) .
They claimed, that they could tell, what animal was inhabiting or had used that hole. Dependant upon the scent-scented or "strength" of the scent.
I thought this was very COOL! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) . As I already had previous experience of the smell of Red Fox. I started doing this on many dens, we'd come across in the field.
In the winter of 68. I shot my 1st coyote. I inhaled his scent[mostly, when no-one was looking, LOL! ].
As time went on, came upon more dens, field drive culverts with tracks, in/out. We were a huffing, LOL! ![[Wink]](wink.gif) .
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One snowfly day, we were perched on a hill. By a field drive. We let the sighthounds out to whizz,....us as well.
I noticed Red Fox tracks, going in/out of the little culvert. I went, bent down & huffed that opening. Made my eye's watered ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) .
I said, Hey! "There's a Red in here!" No one believed me... [young guy/old guy syndrone ![[Frown]](frown.gif) ]. Oh, well. I'm persistant.
Well, they stuck a section of wire in there. Twisted the wire, soon they had a Red, on. He broke free, busted out the other end[the end my face was against]...Bad! idea.
The Red hit me in the face, I rolled onto my back into the ditch. The Red was in mid-flight, right above me. He hit the ground, flat-out into a wide open picked bean...Game over.
When I huff, a den. I'll inhale through my nose 1st. Then inhale through my mouth[you can pick up taste, that way]. Then inhale through, my nose or mouth & exhaust it [all] out of my nose.
End result; smell & taste.
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Leonard
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posted January 16, 2006 08:00 AM
Thanks, 2dogs. You are more dedicated than I.
I would be thinking that I have no interest in a rude (badger, maybe?) making hamburger out of my face.
Good hunting. LB
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Tim Behle
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posted January 16, 2006 09:49 AM
When I was a teenager I used to go out after a rain and find the deer by smell.
I probably couldn't do that here in AZ, too many other smells become promanant after a rain.
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Az-Hunter
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posted January 16, 2006 11:38 AM
Interesting thread, I obviously wasted my youth, huffing holes that did nothing but get me in trouble:)
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Leonard
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posted January 16, 2006 11:55 AM
Quit bragging, Vic.
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Melvin
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posted January 16, 2006 12:17 PM
2dogs, do you have skunks in your area?..Did you ever huff a hole with a skunk in it?
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2dogs
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posted January 16, 2006 01:04 PM
Hmmmm, huffing holes. Tend to get a guy in trouble, @ times LOL!.
Yup, we have skunk here, not many though. Coyotes here like to eat their bellies/genatalia . Go figure...
Many of their dens are in the [high sides] of road ditch's. Mostly, perfectly round, around 6-8" diameter. I pass on those .
I have an [active] Badger den in one of my call area's. He/she came out last wk. Made 1-rd trip, I suppose looking for food. By the size of it's foot prints, he/she's pretty stout.
I was going to get a dig-camera. I put it off[my old 35mm] started working, again . Now it's done for good.
Buying a dig camera today or tomarrow. So I can get some pics posted. When I go out again. Probably won't be able to run it, though. Electronics, way over my head.
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Talked to the farmer who has the coyote den[active the last 2-springs]. He gave me some directions on where to find it. I humped out over a mile, many[big butted hills, whew!]. Started doing a grid search[his directions, were not real accurate]...My luck.
Finally found them. 2-den's caved in from his tractor during last harvest. Both, were out in the middle of the 2 square mile section. On a very high hill. In a picked corm field.
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I've huffed some Badger den's as well. Makes me a tad tense, putting it mildly. Couldn't smell much, except. Soil & a musky stench[reminded me of Muskrat]. Perhaps they were non-active[empty], don't know.
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posted January 16, 2006 02:25 PM
How about the next campfire we dig out some old Bongs. We could have dried burning Coyote poop in one , Red Fox in another, Kit Fox, maybe I can get my hands on some Maui Muskrat.
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Leonard
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posted January 16, 2006 03:51 PM
I think Cheech smoked Labrador?
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MULE
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posted January 16, 2006 04:07 PM
Only asian grey wolf gets torched in my hookah.
Expensive? Oh hell yeah!
But it beats "huffin" paint
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Lonny
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posted January 16, 2006 04:22 PM
I have never purposely huffed a den, but even us poor-nosed humans can locate animals by smell alone when conditions are right. I have been around a few active bear dens and you don't even need to stick your head in the hole to tell that something spent some time there. A buddy of mine arrowed a bear and we spent a couple of hours searching in very thick cover before the scent led us to it.
I've located a couple of freshly killed bull elk just by following my nose into the wind after looking in vain for the dead critter and not finding anything. Elk have a very distictive scent and with the wind right anyone could do it.
I've read where the I n d i a n scouts for Custer could smell even the smallest of warming fires used by the Sioux and Cheyenne at great distances. Way before the whitemen could pick up the smell of smoke anyway.
edited for glitch in the system
[ January 16, 2006, 04:27 PM: Message edited by: Lonny ]
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Leonard
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posted January 16, 2006 04:37 PM
I'm proud of the fact that I can smell the water, a mile before I cross the Colorado River, in Blythe. Best I can do? Badgers stink, late season, male coyotes stink. Dead coyotes usually smell worse than dead badgers. Ask Higgins.
Good hunting. LB
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MULE
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posted January 16, 2006 05:22 PM
Be careful of the golden skunks.
Don't let what happened to me happen to you
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2dogs
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posted January 16, 2006 06:33 PM
Mule, Too FUNNY! LOL!
Reminds me of when one of my older Bro's threatened me. Right before I nailed him. In the mouth with a handfull of mud & slimy Nightcrawlers, LOL!
It was worth the beating .
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posted January 17, 2006 03:52 AM
Too bad Gen. Custer didn't have you guys for scouts.
This thread reminds me of the movie ALMOST HEROES.Chris Farley plays a scout smelling buffalo dung and and comments"the buffalo are near", when asked if he can know this simply by the smell, he says"well no ,they are standing right over there"
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Lonny
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posted January 17, 2006 05:54 AM
smoke em'
Ask anybody who has ever spent much time hunting elk and they will tell you that elk have a odor that is easy to pick up. Even elk beds hours old still have the distictive smell of elk. I'm sure as hell not talking about putting my nose in the wind and locating elk or any animal that is hundreds of yards away. In heavy brush the animal might be very close by but you can't see it.
If you walk into the house with dog shit on your boots I bet your wife can smell it.
And no, I can't stick my nose in a den and say, "Red Fox", "male", "two hours ago".
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Leonard
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posted March 10, 2006 07:27 PM
There were witnesses.
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Andy L
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posted March 10, 2006 08:45 PM
Turkeys are pretty easy to smell in the rain.....
Ok, I know that was off topic....
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posted March 11, 2006 08:56 AM
Damn InjunJoe,
Opened that link, kids had volume up, o'lady sleepin on the couch sits straight up, thought she had me busted lookin at porn again!!
That was funny!!
Well Rich.... is it true? once you go black you wont go back??
JD
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posted March 11, 2006 11:08 AM
LOL canine! That very thing just happened to me. The kids were watch Scooby Doo and they all jumped to come and see Mr. 'Chiggins at the computer.
"Dad, what was that? Was that Rich????"
I never got to see but the first second or two and I switched it off quickly! LOL
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Leonard
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posted March 11, 2006 11:55 AM
should have been there...it was disgusting!
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Rich Higgins
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posted March 11, 2006 12:10 PM
My POS computor won't download it. I have a feeling it's better this way.
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Jay Nistetter
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posted March 11, 2006 03:57 PM
You are SOOOOO right Rich.
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Understanding the coyote is not as important as knowing where they are.
I usually let the fur prime up before I leave 'em lay.
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posted March 11, 2006 05:49 PM
We all need to take up a collection and buy Rich a new 'puter.
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