I just got into ' serious' hunting the last two years, but like I do with everything, I have read, analyzed and over analyzed everything I can get my hands on. The more I read and experiment with out in the woods (I hunt 5 minutes from my back door, so experimenting is easy), the more I am leaning towards going the all natural route also. I' ll still use scent free laundry detergent, simply because eventually the clothes need to be washed and its definitely better than Tide. Maybe I' ll continue to use one or two other commercial things also, but otherwise I' m leaning towards eliminating as much of the junk and scents as possible from my hunts. I have the same concern as you do about deer smelling and detecting chemicals. I swore by Hawg' s scents last year, but this year I got busted by two different does when I used the BF Gland scent on my pants legs as I walked into my stand. All else was typical, the gland scent was the only ' new' experiment I did that day.

I look at it this way- I can detect a strange scent in my home rather easily. I know if it was one of our cats that wizzed on the floor, or the dog. I can pick out whether or not my wife altered the recipe of my favorite dish by smell alone. Do I have confidence that deer, especially the big bucks, can' t tell the difference between H.S. Scents ' Autumn Ground' and the smell of their natural autumn floor that they lie on every day and have their noses to every hour? Heck, I bought some of it the other day and I can tell the difference. I think scent free is the best way, and doing it as naturally as possible, with just a little help from chemicals here and there.