Want a cigar, can't have a cigar. What do you do instead?

[Brian D.]

Through the years I've had three different deer hunters tell me this same basic story, and as far as I remember none of them knew each other:

After several fruitless early morning hours of spotting no deer, they lit up cigars out of boredom. Not long after, one or more of the critters wandered nearby, sniffing the air with great curiosity. In two instances the deer were too small, but the other hunter harvested a full sized buck.

Hunters and fishermen/women often fib or exaggerate, so I can't verify the above as factual.