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Old 10-17-2005 | 09:53 AM
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HuntmDown
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If you were following a good scent control program, you shouldn't have been getting busted so something must have been giving you away. Maybe a smelly pair of boots, smelly pack, garlic breath, who knows. I don't use carbon clothes and I haven't been busted in a long time. I guess if it didn't seem to work, I wouldn't keep doing it either. If you're not going to minimize your scent then you need to take extra care in how you approach your stand and understand that you pretty much burn out each spot as you use it so you need to keep moving. If your willing to give it another try, I would suggest adding Hunters Edge to the line up of products you're using. It's a powder made from one of the strongest odor absorbing there is. Sprinkle it in your boots and clothes and such but most importantly in your pack. I have a theory that lots of guys get busted because of their packs. When is the last time you washed the rope you haul your bow up with? Your hands give off lots of odor and you run that rope through your hands over and over again. How about the sheath on your hunting knife? Any chance there's old blood and/or little bits of guts in the leather? The easiest way to fight those odors is putting scent absorbing powder in the pack. It works its way into everything. When I root around in my pack, there's a cloud of dust wafting out. I just throw a little more in every so often and I know its coating the straps of my safety belt, flashlight, gps unit, and everything else that's in there, stuff that I probably wouldn't ordinarily wash or spray very often, if ever. Well, it's just MO but I can afford to buy a few scent control products a lot more than I can afford to burn out my favorite spots. Good luck to you.
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