What up Range
I am truly anti - scent eleminating industry[:'(].
I do believe we are being scamed 90% of the time with this stuff.
I like the idea of Bacterial elemination......but again - how long will the clothing be able to do this after repeated washings and usage????
I refuse to use those scent away sprays[:'(] - There is absolutely no proof they work. I know I know, great hunters everwhere swear by them.....................
The reason this market hass us by the B[:-]lls with this scent stuff is.................well........We cant freaking Smell anything[
][>:]. Our ability to smell is like 1/ 1,000 of a deers abiltiy. We are blind with our noses............and IMO we are paying for it.
Dress a blind man in purple and pink leasure wear - tell him he looks good and.......if he trusts you he HAS to believe you.
Absorbing crystals
- Sure they MAY have the ability to "absorb some scent but...........how many thousands of thos "crystals" are you dropping on your way in and out of the stand????....like leaving a trail of popcorn if you ask me
You asked my advise ........well here it is (and as a shop owner I know this is bad business)but.....Forget it all.....all of it. Forget the carbon clothes, the crystals, the spray the black carbon spray, the powder........the whole lot of it
Lets get back to some common sense, scent fundamentals. Lets look the devil in the eye, grab the mirror too while your at it
and admit a few things.
1 - We Stink[:-] - no way about it....like a skunk to a deer. Sparay some of that magic potion on a skunk.....and tell me you don't smell it.
2 - The proper wind or luck - is the ONLY way to keep a deer from smelling us when on stand!!!..period
3 - We know nothing about scent....I mean it nothing. Its like UV lighting..Its there but damn if I can tell.
4 - You have been busted, You will get busted........just deal with it
4 - In trying not to "kill" a stand....focus on wind and what smell you are leaving behind going in and out......example........
I met a fellow hunter I knew casually in the woods a couple years ago. We where both leaving our stands and met up in some thick scrub oak. He had on the works...Carbon suit...black carbon stains...a wafer on his head
..and lord knows what else. As he was working his way towards me in the thick stuff along his tackline, he was grabbing and pushing small branches out of his way with his BARE HANDS. Upon meeting, he told me he saw 10 deer on stand the first day (not one winded him), 3 deer the next time (none winded him) and none today..........Duhh[
]. He noticed I was wearing rubber gloves on my hand....and commented on how I must be more of a scent freak then him........LOL.
All I had was clean clothes, rubber boots and the gloves.......far from a freak......well....atleast to me
. This guy just didn't get it.
Put as many stands as you can in the BEST areas you can find. Hunt the wind to the best of your ability. Use simple common sense when it comes to your scent, and take your lumps as they come.
Sorry no magic answers here
No offense to those who use these products......JMO
