I hunt alot of farm country deer here in PA and in IL and I try to use every scent elimination product for one main reason........wind swirls. These areas are generally populated by farmers working the fields, joggers, dog walkers, other hunters, duck blind builders in IL, you name it so the deer are used to smelling humans. What I want to try to duplicate if a wind swirls or a deer gets downwind unexpectedly is as LITTLE human scent as possible.

Why would I want to just SLAM him in the nose with human scent when I can MAYBE create the illusion of a person at a distance or a quick faint scent stream that was faint enough to just make that buck stop and think about it rather than turning inside out the second my BO fills his nostrils?

In my mind I'm planning with my scent control for the unexpected, wind swirlsor deer coming from a goofy direction, and I know if they get downwind they're gonna smell me if the wind currents are travelling downward. I'm just hoping that I can send as little as possible his way.

Deer would never stop running where I hunt if they flat out spooked everytime they smelled a human being. I just don't in a worse case scenario want to paint the picture that a big stinky hunter is about to jump on his back.

Hunting the wind smart is pretty much a given but it still doesn't change the fact that brief wind changes and swirls happen all the time and deer do get downwind.......I sat a stand last year in IL on a perfect hard west wind. Sat there all evening untilabout 1/2hr beforebefore sunset when the wind unexpectedly switched in a big gust or 2 from the east blowing straight into the area I expected to see a buck. Then a couple minutes later as I was contemplating getting down it turned right back around hard west again.
Not 5 minutes later here came a nice 135ish" 8pt from the exact area the wind switched to.

Is it proof that being as scent free as possible helped? Not sure, but I do know that an east wind there is going to carry the farmer's scent that direction as well as anyone else out on the working part of the farm. So MAYBE my scent was ignored because if it was smelled it was faint enough to not be percieved as a threat.

If I went in there without showering that day and smelling like a turd [:'(].........maybe I don't see that buck?

Until we can see deer we don't know are there AND read their minds at the same time I'm going to personally try to stay as scent free as I possibly can.