This thread had me thinking.....so I went back about a year to a NAW article I'd read by a guy named (I think) Bobby Worthington about this very thing. The header on his article was "All or nothing".

While I don't go to the extremes he does in scent control......his point was....if you're not doing everything you can to diminish your scent......why do anything? Why NOT spray down? Why wash your clothes in scent killer soap? Why NOT eat what you want? Why NOT smoke on stand? Why worry about your entrance and exit routes?

The wind?

If you're hunting a spot one day because you have a good wind......where's your scent blowing? Might you hunt, there, tomorrow.....if the wind shifts?

Maybe I'm not understanding this......but why WOULDN'T you do everything in your power to make yourself AS indiscernable to a whitetail as you could? Why not worry about where you might wanna hunt, tomorrow?

I haven't been at this that long.....but long enough to KNOW that if a deer Im after is in a certain area.....THAT is where I need to be. If the wind's favorable on a certain day....Ill be there. If it shifts the next day.....I'd like to think I didn't stink the place I wanted to hunt him in (i.e. the place he IS), by not practicing EVERY scent prevention method I could, the day before.

Seems kinda elementary, to me.....UNLESS you dont care about where your scent is going.....and whether or not you "might" NEED to hunt, there, tomorrow.

I say this from the perspective of someone who hunts small parcels (most less than 25 wooded acres). if you have LOTS of targets....and lots of acreage.....I could see where it might not matter as much.

I don't think "most" of us hunt that way, though.