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Old 09-01-2008 | 07:40 PM
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Default RE: Scent Control

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Cover scent is a waste of time.....Have you ever seen a buck trot across a corn field and smell your or a does scent with no problem at all? Don't you think the smell of the dirt, leaves, and corn stalks are by far a much stronger scent than what you or the doe left on the ground? ( Go ahead and put yournose to the ground and see what you smell).If cover scent worked then the buck would have a very hard time smelling you or the other deer in the much stronger scent of the corn field.

You ever see a bloodhound track someone? They can find where a single person sat in a baseball stadium full of people. Even with the smell of food, trash, and hundreds of other people walking around. This is because each scent( and person)has it's own molecular make up (like a fingerprint so to speak) that cant be covered or changed by placing another scent with it.
I agree with the blood hound statement. However, I think he is inquiring about a persons scent in the wind not in their tracks. I believe that it is very possible to cover or mask your scent in the wind, to a certain extent. Trails are a different story. Some animals can track you simply from the disturbance your foot makes in the ground alone (all scents aside).
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