ORIGINAL: mauser06

see greg, my buddy has a small dairy farm as well...i stop there dang near every night when im home from college. usually that means right after hunting. he gives me or gets me the permission and hunts as well so he likes to talk and game plan with me...can get me on critters pretty well and hes never bowhunted or really stand hunted a day in his life..

but i wont wear an article of clothes or my rubber boots into the barn. farthest i will go is the milk house...thats where i change when we go coon hunting...

ive found you can wash the stuff from your clothes, but boots, its impossible. i had a pair of leather boots i wore to clean a ladies horse barn. not nearly as wet as the cow barn...but there was no getting that smell out/off of them boots.

yes, it may actually HELP and act as a cover scent...but, i still rather try to smell as much as NOTHING as possible. i think that when deer are under pressure and somewhat alert/on edge (like my deer often are) they are more prone to spook at anything foreign. i should "test" the theory and go a year with JUST barn scent...and compare it a year of being as scent free as possible....could save me alot of money and effort....could hang all my gear in one of the box stalls! no more getting dressed in the cold at 0400hrs...