Originally Posted by
moridgerunner
It is the old whitetail bucks and does that will change your success rate by catching your scent downwind of your stand. They can figure out how far you are from them by scent dispersion. They may move in slowly looking for you, and if they catch you moving they will probably leave just as quietly. Now that they know your hiding place they will use the wind to scent check your stand area and see if you are there. If you hear deer snorting at you from a long way off downwind from you this is probably what has happened. The younger deer are slower to figure it out. Scent free or smelly they will find you. The ONLY thing that i feel truly helps is rubber boots for the walk in to the stand.
I think this is bs too, but it's just my opinion. As I mentioned I could smell myself last year and killed one of if not the biggest deer in this area, and he wasn't a young buck.
This year, I got WD-40 sprayed on me the first day of the season. Now granted we did dig out the bottle of Scent Away and spray me off in the area that got WD-40 on me, but sitting in the stand I could still smell the WD-40 so obviously the smell was still there. I sat there about an hour before 3 does came out. They never looked at me, never noticed me, and just flat out didn't care.
IMO the most important thing when hunting is to just have a good food plot planted for them to come to. If you have that, I don't think the rest of the stuff matters too much.