You can't cover your scent...period. Keeping clean and hunt the wind is the only option.

A deer can pick out the different scents in many different orders at the same time. Just like a dog can. If you could cover your scent with a little dirt spray then a buck could never find a doe. Just put your nose to the ground where a doe has walked across. What do you smell? Dirt, leaves, corn stalks, etc. These oders are much stronger than the does scent but a buck can follow her at a fast trot with no problems. The stronger scents don't affect him at all.

The same goes for your human oder. You can't cover it up because the deer can distingish between the different molecules in the scent. One scent being stronger than the other has nothing to do with it. You can't cover them up.

Peace of mind is worth its weight in gold. Always go with the feel good stuff.

Btw, rubber boots, to me anyway, are much superior to their plastic counterparts. They stay more pliable in colder weather. Oh... they are not scent free. They give off an oder that you and I or anyone else can smell. Just think how good the deer can detect it. They should probably be sprayed.

You say your hunting an area where there is inevitably human scent swirling around, but those molecules have dissipated and are less concentrated. I think scent elimination is the way to go. At the very least you're going to minimize the scent you produce, and possibly give the impression you're not in the area, and the off gasing the deer is smelling is somewhat normal. As for cover scents, only rut attractants!!!, and since most archery seasons aren't in the rut I wouln't recommend them.

A good cheap way to eliminate scent (I've been experimenting successfully for two years now) is to go the "devil" that is Walmart and buy Aquatech activated carbon for aquariums for about $3.50 for 4 oz., crush about 1/2 oz. of it as fine as possible, add 1/4 cup baking soda, all with a gallon of distilled H20. Let sit for an hour or so andstrainthrough a coffee filter 2-3 times. Put in spray bottle, and use when needed.
As evidence it works, last year I stalked in on 30 head of elk with swirling wind and stuck a young bull at 10 yards (he was the only one awake and standing and that wouldn't have changed if I hadn't shot him.)

Good info....especially since this will be my first year bow hunting.

If I stunk to high heaven and had a bottle of Hawgs vanishing hunter I would still feel confident enough to hunt. I think that much of the stuff.

Scent Killer is my choice...

last year i started using scent killer autumn laundry detergent, and spray, and fresh earth cover discs. i didn't really notice any significant advantage from using them, but i would think that the non uv brightner detergent has to help. besides, that stuff does smell like my woods, so iti don't think it's going to hurt anything. i haven't gone so far as the soap, deodorant, and shampoo though. that's where i begin to question how much the stuff works and is it worth it.