Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

Just a curious poll to see how many of you use items such as scent lok or scent blocker and scent killer sprays etc...not trying to start a debate or anything like that.

RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

I don't use them.

RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

I use everything that can give me an edge. What is and what is not worth the $$ that's my choice. I know my Deer sightings, kills, and deer that circle around me and then leave naturally have increased drastically since I have been using my current scent control regimen.

I will say that if you don't go at scent control 200% then you might as well do Nothing else other than just hunt the wind. It is much more than throwing on some clothes and spraying down.;)

Dan

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I use both clothes and sprays....Don't know if they work but I can afford the sprays and the clothes were free from one of Drury's drawings they did about 3 years ago...Any little edge over a deer nose is gotta be better than nothing at all...

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Only the sprays here!! But not always. Just play the wind because of all the camera equipment and other stuff we bring in it would be almost impossible to stay scent free.. I think we sprayed down like3 days of our 24 day sprint.. Walt

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I use the clothes and the spray. I dont know if they work of not but i had deer downwind of me this past season and they never winded me, so........

RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

i use both a sentblocker suit and the spray..had deer down wind of me on the ground and had no idea maybe im just lucky though:D

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Only used Dead Down Wind andplayed the wind.

Can't complain. Got blown a few times and went undetected a few times down wind. Don't know if it did much,
but to my nose it does kill odor.

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I use Scent Killer wash, hang dry clothes outsides (in early season when wether permits) otherwise dry with the scent killer dryer sheets. Spray clothes down good, let em dry put em in big plastic ziplocks. Then after I dress I spray myself and equipment down with the spray. Before I dress I do shower in the "scent free" soap. Granted I do not believe for 1 min that I am scent free, but I do think that it helps. The last deer of the season I killed came with 2 others from downwind, never smelled me and I had deer right under my stand when there wasnt any wind at all and never got winded. Like I said I dont think for one second that I am scent free I just try to do what I can to prevent as much scent as I can. One of the biggest things that I do is spray my boots down heavy each time I go out. It has worked for me I believe.

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For me i use everything i can think of, i dont know if they work, but if they help even a LITTLE its worth it... I start of by using Scent killer body wash and shampo, as well as the scent killer deoderant (which i also use right before i go out hunting) Than after all my scent eliminating things are properly washed an stored away, i put on my base layer of "x scent" which i put on my legs and top, than i put on my scenter blocker suit, next my nice scent lok waterproof gore tex pants over that. After that i put on my rubber boots, scent lok face mask and i already have my scent lok gloves on because i only touch my clean scent lok with gloves so i dont smell them up... Finally after all that i go out side and spray my self down in scent killer spray, as well as my bow,backpack etc... and than im off

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I have the whole works, dream season suit, the boots, gloves, hat, you name it, all from scent blocker!! I shot 2 of the 4 deer this year down wind of me... You people that say it is a joke, better think again. I know it is hard to get 100% scent free, but scent blocker or any other scent eliminating products will give you RESULTS.

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I only use the spray and even then i don't always use it . The clothes are a wast of money in my opinion

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When i first bought my scent lok clothes i was not sure if it worked, so i waited for really good sales and got scent lok clothes that i would ware wether or not its scent lok, so even if it dont work i still use it for the right weather conditions. For example i got Cabela's MT050® GORE-TEX® Scent-Lok®/pants for 100 bucks including tax!(normally costs 220) I would of bought them for that price even without the scent lok...

RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

I posted a similar poll not long ago. I use and will continue to use sprays- I do believe they help (somewhat)

I purchased an original Scent-Lok suit wayyyy back before most people knew about them- back when they had to hock the suits at local hunting shows. I used it for a few years. I came to the conclusion that I still had to play the wind, however if the wind varied a bit or swirled for whatever reason, like the sprays, it helped .

As an example (and anecdotal evidence- certainly not scientific) I remember one extremely warm 80 something degree day in October bowhunting and I was sweating like a pig- going in and on my stand. The wind changed/ (top of a hollow) not long after I got in there, so I was continulously testing the wind with powder and it kept falling down to the ground and drifting into this one particular area before becoming so fine I could no longer see it it. I really didnt have time to move anywhere else and hunt for the evening so I stuck it out.

About 30 minutes later after running a doe around my area for awhile and giving up on her, I had a nice 6 pt buck come back to my doe grunts and walk right down the path I came in nose to the ground, and then where my wind powder had been falling to the forest floor. He caught me move a little, relaxed after looking through me. and then milled around in the area for a bit. Finally presented me a good shot and I centerpunched his lungs. After watching him do a giant semi-circle around my stand back up into the field and then cartwheeling to the ground , I tested the wind again and the powder drifted right into that area I had shot him. I don't know how he did not get my wind that day I have to honestly say the suit (WITH MASK!) is the only logical explanation I can give. Overall I think the mask is very important for whatever added effectiveness the suits give you.

On a side note-It was so hot that day and he had been running like a mad man that it looked like an axe murder scene following the bloodtrail.

Will I buy more scent clothes this year? I don't know- I'f I'm able to procure some property to hunt again, I may invest in one of those silvermax suits or whatever, or some other kind of "base" layer- and then rely on my normal "scent free as possible "regimen (how the clothes are stored, putting them on in the field, , proper washing etc).

RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

I use them when hunting whitetails in woodlots where I can drive from home. If I'm hunting anything else it's on multi-day hunts and you can forget the Scent control clothing. You've just got to pay attention to the wind and know when to go or stay.

RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
 

Scent Blocker suit, and Scent Killer spray