Scent Overated????
11-12-2009, 03:44 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Darrtown, OH
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Scent Overated????
Ok I have always done what I could to prevent/cover/eliminate/control my scent. But my Dad always asks hwo important it is where we live when you have a house atleast every half mile and scent from your house gets carried around. My woods that I hunt is down wind of the most common wind direction and only across 175-200 yard grassy field and I hunt in the woods and stil ltake care of my scent and I dont see tons of deer but I see enough to keep it interesting. For my scent control this season all I did was soak my clothes at the beggining of the season in a carbon solution then stored them in a plastic bin and then every 5-6 hunts ill spray down with some scent killer spray thats all I do. Last night I had a four point come in dead down wind and it was a nice steady breaze and even crossed my trail and never thought the wiser. What are your guys thoughts on this?
11-12-2009, 03:49 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Midwest
Posts: 248
it depends. i always wash my clothes in scent free wash, air them out as much as i can, and spray down with scent killer on my way to the stand. sometimes deer will walk directly on my path to my stand and not know the difference, and sometimes the older bucks or does will smell you even if you're not directly downwind. I think it depends a lot on how mature the deer are, the more experience they have the harder it is to fool their nose.
11-16-2009, 12:01 PM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
Hunt a different place and see. Times when it doesn't matter so much and times when it does.
I was in one of those when it doesn't, sitting there getting bugged by something stuck in my sock pricking me. First time I've ever taken a boot off on stand, wouldn't you know it a doe being run raged by a buck busts out right under me heading out into the clear cut, both frothing at the mouth. I'm up with my boot half off weapon in hand waiting for her to take him out and she stops, looks right up at me, turns quickly and bolts back into the woods. I'd of bet she would've never given me a thought. Sure was exciting.
Nothing this year has seen me except her. It matters.
I was in one of those when it doesn't, sitting there getting bugged by something stuck in my sock pricking me. First time I've ever taken a boot off on stand, wouldn't you know it a doe being run raged by a buck busts out right under me heading out into the clear cut, both frothing at the mouth. I'm up with my boot half off weapon in hand waiting for her to take him out and she stops, looks right up at me, turns quickly and bolts back into the woods. I'd of bet she would've never given me a thought. Sure was exciting.
Nothing this year has seen me except her. It matters.
11-17-2009, 03:42 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
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11-17-2009, 08:23 AM
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NE & Western Wisconsin
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I always say, Will it be overrated when the biggest buck you ever seen busts you? It doesn't hurt.
I hunt in Western Wisconsin. Scent control is huge. With the bluff and rolling terrain, wind swirls like crazy. Its hard to play the wind.
I hunt in Western Wisconsin. Scent control is huge. With the bluff and rolling terrain, wind swirls like crazy. Its hard to play the wind.