Originally Posted By: Mark2Deer have a better sense of smell. But coyote are smarter. You cant say that scent control is not important.. I have shot deer from my stand at 5 feet with bad wind. I shot a 52 lb coyote at 50 yds down wind.
Mark2
Can you provide a reference for that statement? I'm looking to learn something here. Deer are reported to have as many as 297 million olfactory receptors and some bloodhounds and trailing dogs have 300 million olfactory receptors. Coyotes being a wild canid known for their survival ability that relies heavily on the sense of smell to find food, for protection, and for various social reasons such as mating and marking territory it would seem logical that they would have at least that highly developed sense of smell. Though I cannot readily remember exactly where I read the research that coyotes had a greater sense of smell than a deer; it would seem logical given the information of domesticated hounds having a greater olfactory sense than a deer. I could be wrong about it, though I find it hard to believe that a coyote’s nose isn’t at least as sharp as a domestic hound and thus greater than a deer also.
