Homemade Scent-Killer: Anyone Used It?
 

I just found the recipe for homemade scent-killing spray and plan to mix up some batches of this come October. Anybody already used this recipe and believe that it works as good or better than anything else out there?

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I am this year for the first time. In fact I just picked up the stuff from Wally World yesterday. HS Green soap, baking soda, peroxide and distilled water. I hear guys swear by it.

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I've used it for the past couple of seasons. Without beinfg able to ask the deer and elk themselves it appears to work the same as store bought stuff for a lot less money.

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How much of each item do you use ?

Whats the mixture ?

Thank You

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1 gallon distilled water
1 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon scent-free soap
1 quart peroxide

mix it up thoroughly until baking soda is completely dissolved and let it set uncovered for 3 or 4 days or until the peroxide stops bubbling, mix it again a little bit and your ready to go

that's straight from the recipe I just found today, I figured I'd find morebelieversin this

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I made the stuff last year. I mixed in a little HS Scent Earth Cover Spray to give it an earthy tone. It seemed to work just fine, but the batch I made turned my geen hat almost compltely white. I may have had to much soda in it, but it really left white streaks all over it. Anyone else had this problem? It cost about $4 to make a 1.5 gallon batch compared to $25 or more to buy it.

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do you wash your clothes in it or drink it?[:-]

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No I cant say I drank it, but it wouldn't hurt ya! The spray when it dried just left a heavy residue all over my clothes.

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I second the fact that it left a residue, although not a heavy residue. It was a little annoying, but a helluva lot cheaper. I think I will use a little less baking soda next time. I saw some leftover in the bottom of the jug that did not dissolve. It seemed to work just fine last year. I did get busted by a few deer, but the east wind was blowing hard in their direction, and they were about 75 yards from me.

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I wash all my huntin clothes in Baking Soda. The cheapest scent killer ever made.

Last yr I made 2 batches of the home brew spray scent killer. There were 4-5 recipes here on site to make the stuff. It will leave a white "soda" residue on anything its sprayed or spilled on. I had a spray bottle bubble up all over my truck floor - a mess but its just baking soda.

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You guys are talking about putting less baking soda in, but isn't that the main scent-neutralizing ingredient? Can the residue be just brushed-off by hand?

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I've never had any problem removing it from clothing. Once in a great while when I wash my clothes in it,some soda might get clumped up in clothing. Just brush it off when dry.

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Now I've been pointed to an article that claims the hydrogen peroxide sold in grocery stores in brown bottles is no good for this "home-brew" because it contains preservatives to keep the peroxide from deteriorating into water, which in turn contain an odor.:eek:SO, I now have to begin the search for pure hydrogen peroxide for my mixture. The guy who wrote the articlerecommended pool chemical peroxide. I know they have pool chemicals, but I'm really wondering if Wally World is going to carry that. Guess we'll see.

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The stuff in the brown bottle works just fine. With all the stuff mixed together and left to sit a day or 2, the smell is no problem. In fact, if you get the peroxide that is the pure stuff you have to dilute it. If you don't dilute it enough, it can burn your skin. Plus I think the only way you can buy it is in bulk form. The brown bottle at Walmart is super cheap. I think I made over a gallon for around $3? Maybe less. I still got alot of it left. I believe i used just over 2 quarts last year. Also, don't put it in a clear bottle. From what I've read the light can break it down and make less effective. Don't know if that's true. I keep my extra in a 1.5 gallon white plastic bucket with the lid on itunder neath my sink in the bathroom. And next to that is where I keep the full pump bottles of it. Be sure when you mix it all together and let it sit for a day or so that you don't seal up the lid. Keep it cracked. If you don't the mixture of the baking soda and the peroxide causes pressure to build and can blow the lid off and make a mess. After A day or so of sitting, it is safe to pour it in your pump bottles and not have to worry about them blowing up. BTW, it does work!!!!
Scott Woody

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Forgot to say this. If you have well water you can use that instead of distilled water. If you have city or county water, do mot use it. This water has alot of chemcials in it like chlorine and that stuff is strong.
Scott Woody

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Hmmm i might make some closer to when i go hunting.

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I've made some cover scent before by boiling some acorns, oak leaves, dirt, twigs, etc and bottled it in a spray bottle. Worked pretty good except that the spray nozzle at the bottom of the bottle would get clogged (which filtering the mixture would cure the prob) and when I sprayed my clothes it would put some brown spots on them (that washed out) b/c the mixture was a dark dark brown color after boiling.

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I to have boiled pine needles and the such, filtered the water and used it as cover scent. I think they are all highly effective and MUCH cheaper then buying the commercial stuff.

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I can attest that this stuff works. Be careful with the pool peroxide though. I hear it'll take your skin off. The brown bottle stuff is only around 3% and is safe to put on your skin.

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The pool peroxide is 30% if I recall correctly and will need to be diluted to 3%. Places like Walmart or your local drug store does not carry it. You will need to find a pool distributer to buy it, if you want to go that route.

I have used a similar home-brewed reciepe for 3 years. I HAVE NOTICE THAT DEER SOMETIMES STOP WHEREI WALKED THROUGH AND SMELLED MYTRACKS while using it. Not always, but I have seen this enough to make me think twice about using the 3% peroxide bought at the drug store. So I think they can smell some of the chemicals in this. The deer that do stopped, has not reacted negatively, just noticed the smell. In a minute or two, they just carried on with their routine.

Last year I started a new strategy where I use the home-brew sollution on everything except my shoes/boots. There I used the commercial scent killer products. No problems with that combo.

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Do you know how you would measure the amount of water to add to theamount of peroxide for the right 3% combo for your brew? Sound like we're makin' moonshine here.

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Not to be too mathimatical, but I'll give you the formula because I am not sure what concentration of the pool peroxide is. If it is not 30%, you can subsitute the percentage in. Here goes:

Use the formula C1*V1= C2*V2 where C = concentration and V = volume.

So if you need one quart (32 ounces) of the store bought (3%) peroxide to make up a gallon and assuming that the pool concentrated peroxide is 30%, you would use the following:

.3(= to concentrate pool peroxide percentage of 30%) * V1 (the unknown amount)= .03 (desired concetration perocide percentage--3%) * 32 ou. (1 quart what you would use of the store bought normal peroxide)
or
.3*V1= .03 * 32 ou

reduce to
V1 = .03 *32 ou / .3

do the math and you'll get:

V1 = 3.2 ounces of concetrated 30% pool peroxide in one gallon of homebrew scent killer. Of course this is assuming that the pool peroxide is really 30 %.

Now aren't you gladthat you asked?

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There was alot of discussion late last yr in Bowhunting forum about home brew scent killer.

You can do a Search by typing in scent killer baking soda. No author.Bowhunting forum. top 100 replies. there are some good replies along with recipes for the brew.

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For $25 I will just buy what I know works lol. I would kick myself in the nuts if I had a good bucks wind me because I tried to play mad scientist and make my own cover scent LOL.

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All the ingredients in the brew are designed to do nothing but destroy odor. There is no way a deer is going to be alarmed by the spray. If they bust you after you've sprayed-down, it's because you didn't put enough on or use it properly or something, not because the spray itself has an odor.

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Alot of people think i am crazy when i do this but it works. Its not a scent killer just an attractant. Once me or my dad kill a deer instead of ripping all the guts and stuff out I normally collect what every urine i can from the bladder by wearing gloves and tieing off the tubes then we use to farm so i have a lot of milk test tubes that i just fill up.(I would cut the wholebladder out so i wont spill on meat) The best stuff is the real stuff and i know that this is 100% real

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I don't know if what I use is an attractor or a scent killer, but I know when I spray it on me, I have deer all over around me winding for the source.

I make Cammomile tea from dry cammomile flowers and also mint leaves and mix it in a spray bottle and just spray it all over my clothes.

My grandfather use this for over 60 years.

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Indeed, it works like a charm. I boil up plain old spruce branches and then, exactly like you do, filter it and put it in a spray bottle. Why not smell like the bush you are sitting in?

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Alex, my family and I have been drinking Cammonmile Tea for over 50yrs.
We buy the imported one from Spain.

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Bicarbonate of Soda has been used for a huntingcover scent since the 1920's.

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2 quarts 3% H202 (Hydrogen Peroxide, brown bottles, $.98 quart at Walmart)
2 quarts distilled water ($.50 gallon at Walmart)
2 boxes of baking soda ($.50 per boxGrand Total- $3.46 for 1 gallon of scent eliminator, compared to $30 in cabelas... Can you say advertising and lucrative profit?

Mix all in a bucket and stir until soda well dissolved. Let sit for at least two hours, mine sat 2 days. Keep mixing as baking soda falls out of solution and drops to the bottom of the bucket. Only so much will stay dilluted, don' t worry to much about the fall out after it' s sat awhile.

Fill containers (I used the H202 quart bottles and the rest in the gallon jug). Cap. Let sit for 1 week. Use liberally, cause the stuffs so cheap



Here's a homemade scent killer recipe I pulled off the internet at the beginning our last season. I've used it religiously and I haven't heard a snort all year. I was directly downwind at ground level on several occasions and was never winded. I also took my archery deer and can credit this stuff. I had leather boots on and had walked all over the area looking for a tree (first time I hunted that particular tree). I missed this deer on the first shot and it proceeded to circle downwind of me, nose high in the air. He never caught wind and I ended up getting a second shot that took him.

1 gallon distilled water (or clean creek water, just no chlorines or iodines in it)
1/2 box of baking soda
16 oz peroxide
2 shot glasses of Hunters Specialty green liquid soap

Pour out enough water from a gallon jug to get the other stuff in and let it fizz for a while after mixing (about 1 hour or the top will pop off). Then just transfer to a spray bottle and you're set.

128 oz cost about $4.50 vs $8-$10 for 16-32oz of some other fancy kind.

Other guys have tried it as well and say they've had success. I won't hunt without it again.

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Or you can mix Vanishing Hunter with H.S.specialities Scent away spray, let it sit for a few days..........I swear i had a two does, smell my back pack i left on the ground accidently but managed to spray it down with this mixture, and they didnt even flinch!! Two seperate does, smell the same pack and not bust me! Huh, i am on to something with this one boys!! LOL

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I don't think I'd ever try making a homemade scent-killer. Seems like too much room for error. White Lightning is my main piece of hunting equipment.