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Old 06-14-2006 | 06:20 PM
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Default Can deer smell face paint?

Never used it before. Does it stink? I'm sort of anal about scent control.
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Old 06-14-2006 | 06:43 PM
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I beleave all camo face paint is odorless, but I might be wrong ?
The stuff I use doesn't smell.
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Old 06-14-2006 | 06:58 PM
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I used to use face paint. The stuff I used kind of smelled like a crayon. Now I use a head net. I would like to go back to paint for my elk hunt ( if I draw), if in fact there is odorless paint available.
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Old 06-14-2006 | 07:09 PM
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Well I can tell you some of the Army stuff has a scent. I am thinking that it probably is scent free for hunters but if it has a smell they no doubt can pick it out.
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Old 06-15-2006 | 04:08 AM
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Default RE: Can deer smell face paint?

Wore it once and smelt like Crayon's to me. I did not see any deer that day so I can't say either way.
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Old 06-15-2006 | 06:24 AM
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I think they can smell anything. To say it is odorless is what our senses can smell; not theirs. I don't think it is an alarming odor and I have shot many deer using it while bowhunting. I would be more worried about your breath and body odor.

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Old 06-15-2006 | 06:32 AM
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ORIGINAL: gzg38b

I'm sort of anal about scent control.
I'll say, jeez
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Old 06-15-2006 | 06:57 AM
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Deer are tuned into human odor. That crayon smell is not a human odor. Some guys pee right off their treestands with no ill effects. I know a guy who smokes on stand and kills lots of deer.
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Old 06-15-2006 | 09:10 AM
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Deer are tuned into human odor.
Not just human order, but any foreign oder. Any foreign oder will alert them at first. That may calm down after getting used to it.
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Old 06-15-2006 | 09:32 AM
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They'll smell your buggers just as easily as they will the face paint.....
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