This year it was time to replace my favorite pair of hunting boots. The Wolverine King Carribou III's. These boots are light as tennis shoes, are camo (even the soles), Gortex and work from 65+ degrees down to 35+ degrees. They're a great pair of boots.

Here's what I noticed........ When I'm hunting up north in Wis, be it turkeys or deer, I spend a lot of time in my buddies barn while he's milking. I wear my hunting clothes including my boots. I'll spend up to 2 hours in there helping feed cattle or just shooting the breeze. You can't help but step in cow dung while in the barn. When I leave I make sure that I wipe my feet off real good before getting into my truck. Well, this year with my new boots, they sat for about 10 days between hunts. I'd started hunting Ill and while driving there one day, I noticed that familiar "barn smell". At first I thought it was my hunting clothes. Well, I ignored it at first but after about a week of it, I knew it couldn't be my clothes. When I got home I took off my boots and looked at the bottoms, they were clean. Then I put my nose to them......Wow!!! [:-]That's where the smell was coming from. It puzzled me at how long the oder was lasting even after wearing the boots hunting for more than 2 weeks. The oder must have been absorbed into the soles of the boots!

This had interesting results.

Not once this season did my entry trail to my stand get busted!

I had tons of deer cross, walk directly on and sniff the ground where I walked and not even blink their eye's.

I had worn my old boots in the barn plenty of times and never had the oder linger for more than a few days. I'm not sure but the soles must be different. Another thing that I noticed is that when my old boots wore out, the soles delaminated slightly in a couple of spots. I believe that this allowed human (yes I am human) oder to escape from my boots and the deer were busting my entry trail! [:@]

Lessons learned....... replace all accessories when they are not performing at 100% and stand around in cow dung..... it's free!


Note: No scent eliminating products of any kind were used while harming these animals. [:-]

Here's a pic of the boots.