It sounds like you' ve taken quite a few precautions on reducing your scent, and also covering it up. I' ve never been one to use cover scents, but I started trying to make myself as scent free as possible. I was my clothes in scent free soap, shower in scent free soap, use scent free deoderant, and use a home brew scent eliminator (distilled water, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and scent free soap. I can give you the formula if you want it). I don' t own Scent Lock type clothing, and I' ve had deer walk right on the same trail as me, and feed under my tree with no indication of being spooked. I had one downwind last night for a while as well, and it didn' t seem to notice. Saying this, I still pay a LOT of attention to the wind, and won' t hunt a stand if the wind is wrong.


The only advise I could give is: use fewer or no cover scents for a while and see what happens. But, I' m betting the problem is the smell you get after putting all your scent free clothes on. How many clothes are you wearing on your walk to the blind, and how hot is it? If you' re sweating on the way there, all the scent free stuff isn' t going to do you much good. You said mosquitos bothered you, so it must be fairly warm yet. Try to wear as few clothes as possible on the walk in so you don' t get how and sweaty. Bring them along in a back-pack or something. When you get to the blind, quietly put them on.

It sounds like you' ve done everything else right. My bet would be that you' re sweating on the way in, which will make any hunter smell-no matter how much care he puts into scent elimination before the hunt. Good luck!

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