Does any of you folks use turpentine on your boots as a cover scent..I understand it's a secret here in the south..It's strong..and southern pines are made from it..I'm trying it this year..

Never heard that one Chuck, let us know how it works for you!!!!!

chuck----can you smell the turpentine when you apply it to your boots?

I havn't tried it yet..but I will be ...I was busted a few times last year..Yes..you can smell it when you open the can..It's pretty strong..but smells like pine trees..

Interesting. Just thinking about it though you could try other similar stuff.

Good luck

When I belonged to this one club in Georgia many years ago, that's all we used. We had 5 sections of St Regis Paper land. They cut a section every year while I was in the club. This was before the days of total stripping. They left hardwoods and creek bottoms which became major highways for the deer. If you were hunting around where they were cutting you doused yourself liberally with gum turpentine before heading for your stand. Seemed to work to us. We'd splash a little on our hat, shoulders, arm pits and boots. The deer never seemed to get alarmed by it. Everyone smelled the same and always had a can or two in their truck.

There ya go..spoken from a true pro..

What about just collecting fresh pine needles and keeping them in a bag with your clothing and boots. To keep things from getting messy you could fill an old sock withcrushed pine needle and put that in the bag. That's what I did when I used to hunt the New Jersey pine barrens.

My grandpa used to use that stuff briefly, some old timer told him about it. I personally took one whiff of it and decided it would be no where near my hunting clothes. It didn't smell like trees or anything to me, it smelled like a strong chemical. I would guess that if a person had luck with it, they were hunting ground that had just been timbered recently and had gas and oil cans still sitting around. The turpentine would then be just another fumey substance in the air.