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• earlyagain Posts: 6,905 Senior Member

  November 2018 #2

  The smell of shotgun powder sure is a nice power of recollection.
  
  I don't think I ever fired enough 22s hunting without wind to notice the smell.
  
  The smell of the kerosene stove and lantern were strong in deer camp when I was a kid.

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• coolgunguy Senior Member Posts: 6,614 Senior Member

  November 2018 #3

  My sinus polyps are back with a vengeance, so it's a rare day that I can draw breath through my nose, let alone smell something. The two you listed are good, but for me, it would be the smell of the coffee aisle at the store, fresh bread in the oven, the ocean as you approach the shore and my kids when they were babies.  I remember these smells vividly and I hope to be able to enjoy them (or similar ones... my kids would think it was weird the days) again some day. 
  
  
  

  "Bipartisan" usually means that a bigger than normal deception is happening.
  George Carlin

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• Jayhawker Moderator Posts: 17,099 Senior Member

  November 2018 #4

  Freshly spent paper hull shotshells....

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• Tugar Senior Member Posts: 2,266 Senior Member

  November 2018 #5

  Hard to pick just one. Hoppes #9, the mixture of breakfree and spent powder from an AR, and of course, my chili.. 
  
  

  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
  Winston Churchill

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• knitepoet Senior Member Posts: 21,395 Senior Member

  November 2018 #6

  Bacon frying.
  sourdough bread baking
  and Jayhawker's freshly fired paper shotgun hulls
  

  Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Rule #37: There is no “overkill”. There is only “open fire” and “I need to reload”.
  
  
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 6,905 Senior Member

  November 2018 #7

  knitepoet said:

  Bacon frying.
  sourdough bread baking
  and Jayhawker's freshly fired paper shotgun hulls
  

  That new sausage has to have a hood smell👃

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• CHIRO1989 Senior Member Posts: 12,948 Senior Member

  November 2018 #8

  Anything my dad is cooking at the hunting shack, the sauna stove fired up, bottle of doe pee on a cold morning.

  I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11

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• Zee Senior Member Posts: 24,537 Senior Member

  November 2018 #9

  The sage in Wyoming and the breeze through the aspens in Montana. 
  
  I could die a happy happy man after either of those. 

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• terminator012 Senior Member Posts: 3,929 Senior Member

  November 2018 #10

  While the smell of gun powder going off is good, I love the smell of some good ole red oak or hickory coming out of the chimney on a cold winters night. 

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• FFLshooter Member Posts: 1,057 Senior Member

  November 2018 #11

  Gonna second a fireplace.

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• zorba Senior Member Posts: 23,977 Senior Member

  November 2018 #12

  Smell of conifers in the high country.
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
  

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• mitdr774 Member Posts: 1,496 Senior Member

  November 2018 #13

  Campfire, turboblue after it's been half ass burnt up in an engine,  exhaust from a propane fork truck,  gasoline, spent gun powder (we get to use .25 cal.  PATs at work some times), bacon, and I'm sure I missed a few.
  
  

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• minnesotashooter Senior Member Posts: 786 Senior Member

  November 2018 #14

  coolgunguy said:

  My sinus polyps are back with a vengeance, so it's a rare day that I can draw breath through my nose, let alone smell something. The two you listed are good, but for me, it would be the smell of the coffee aisle at the store, fresh bread in the oven, the ocean as you approach the shore and my kids when they were babies.  I remember these smells vividly and I hope to be able to enjoy them (or similar ones... my kids would think it was weird the days) again some day. 
  
  I am a sinus polyp sufferer as well.  I hate those things. 
  
  

  
  

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• Antonio Senior Member Posts: 2,754 Senior Member

  November 2018 #15

  The sea, early in the morning specially, my 3 girls (They all use the same cheap Chilean cologne wife's been using since she was a baby), "new car" smell and what I call the "United States smell"; don't ask what it is precisely, but it's imprinted in my memory since I was a little boy and grandma came from a trip to FLA or NY with grandad; she waited for us to arrive to open the luggage where she carried our gifts & goodies (Even simple, everyday stuff was wonderful, like chocolate milk cartons, kids' cereals, chocolates or toys, none available thanks to importation bans by commie governments) and the smell that came out of it is the same I still feel as soon as I land into the US.....no kidding!
  

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• Spk Senior Member Posts: 4,068 Senior Member

  November 2018 #16

  Ponderosa pine in the spring time, the smell of meat in the smoker and Colombian coffee -- freshly ground. (not a Latté, Mocha or other form of Frappacino, Just Coffee black)
  
  

  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain
  How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
  
  

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• Michakav Senior Member Posts: 2,800 Senior Member

  November 2018 #17

  Bacon frying, onions sauteing and pine trees.

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• Gila Posts: 1,828 Senior Member

  November 2018 #18

  A bunch of the stuff already mentioned, the smell of the air after a rain, the desert in the spring, Christmas with a real tree up, new leather, a new car and a Martin guitar.  On the other hand, I don't much care for the aroma of my wife's flatulence...
  
  

  No good deed goes unpunished...
  

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• zorba Senior Member Posts: 23,977 Senior Member

  November 2018 #19

  TMI...
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
  

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• kansashunter Senior Member Posts: 1,863 Senior Member

  November 2018 #20

  Smells from my youth that takes me back, fresh mowed alfalfa and turned up dirt. When I got a little older burning rubber. 

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• jbp-ohio Senior Member Posts: 10,227 Senior Member

  November 2018 #21

  Christmas sugar cookies in the oven....
  
  Christmas/Thanksgiving/Easter dinner being cooked............

  "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson

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• Linefinder Moderator Posts: 7,261 Senior Member

  November 2018 #22

  Freshly split red oak. For me, that's probably the best.
  
  Mike

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• CaliFFL Senior Member Posts: 5,486 Senior Member

  November 2018 #23

  Two cycle engine exhaust...reminds me of jet skis and dirt bikes from my youth. 

  When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
  
  Adam J. McCleod
  
  

  
  

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 13,521 Senior Member

  November 2018 edited November 2018 #24

  4 day dead gator.

  Overkill is underrated.

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• wddodge Senior Member Posts: 1,101 Senior Member

  November 2018 edited November 2018 #25

  Walking into a barn of fresh baled hay. The smell of dirt when working ground before we got cabs. The aroma of liver and onions with fried taters coming from the kitchen. 
  

  
  

  Denny

  
  

  edit.. Looks like Kansashunter and I come from the same background.  
  

  Participating in a gun buy back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.... Clint Eastwood

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• earlyagain Posts: 6,905 Senior Member

  November 2018 #26

  Brand new tires👃

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• orchidman Senior Member Posts: 8,148 Senior Member

  November 2018 #27

  The scent of a woman and leather..................

  Bacon frying 30 mins before opening of the duck season.........

  Fresh fired paper shotgun shells...........
  

  Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....

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• tennmike Senior Member Posts: 27,454 Senior Member

  November 2018 #28

  orchidman said:

  The scent of a woman and leather..................

  Bacon frying 30 mins before opening of the duck season.........

  Fresh fired paper shotgun shells...........
  

  The smell of a woman in leather excites men because she smells like a new truck!

    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
  ― Douglas Adams
  

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• tennmike Senior Member Posts: 27,454 Senior Member

  November 2018 #29

  Salt sea air, the smell of a cedar thicket after a rain, Jayhawker's fired paper hull shotshells, and the smell of fresh plowed earth are a few. And an odd one, a barn full of cattle on a cold day. Puppies smell pretty good, too.
  

    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
  ― Douglas Adams
  

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• Spk Senior Member Posts: 4,068 Senior Member

  November 2018 #30

  tennmike said:

  The smell of a woman in leather excites men because she smells like a new truck!

  You mean low maintenance and an open bed...... I hear ya'

  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain
  How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
  
  

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• bellcat Senior Member Posts: 1,914 Senior Member

  November 2018 #31

  Fresh cut alfalfa and silage.

  "Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Mark Twain

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