Scent Control
08-31-2008, 09:55 PM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 159
RE: Scent Control
Are you looking for a cover scent or are looking to lure them in, and try to get em to nibble on your shoe strings? I have seen scent killer made in acorn scent, but I never liked it. If I use anything natural for cover scent it is cedar. I usually cut a few cedar limbs and put them in the bottom of a big rubbermade storage tote cover the limbs with an old towel or something to keep the sap off you good stuff, and let it sit for a day or so. Just hope you are not allergic to cedar.
I thought you used scentlok washin detergent!!!!! I never even KNEW about doing some of this stuff!!!! What good information guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!
09-01-2008, 06:57 AM
#13
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: Scent Control
ORIGINAL: trevorpt
Before every deer season i go out and i collect acorns. I smash the acorns up and place them in a bag with my clothes, so my clothes smell like acorns(it works very well to cover your scent and to attract deer). This year none of the trees in Ky are producing acorns because of last years drought. Does anyone have any recommendation for a new scent cover, preferably a scent control that smells like acorns.
Any comments would help...
Before every deer season i go out and i collect acorns. I smash the acorns up and place them in a bag with my clothes, so my clothes smell like acorns(it works very well to cover your scent and to attract deer). This year none of the trees in Ky are producing acorns because of last years drought. Does anyone have any recommendation for a new scent cover, preferably a scent control that smells like acorns.
Any comments would help...
09-01-2008, 07:00 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,498
RE: Scent Control
Cover scent is a waste of time.....Have you ever seen a buck trot across a corn field and smell your or a does scent with no problem at all? Don't you think the smell of the dirt, leaves, and corn stalks are by far a much stronger scent than what you or the doe left on the ground? ( Go ahead and put yournose to the ground and see what you smell).If cover scent worked then the buck would have a very hard time smelling you or the other deer in the much stronger scent of the corn field.
You ever see a bloodhound track someone? They can find where a single person sat in a baseball stadium full of people. Even with the smell of food, trash, and hundreds of other people walking around. This is because each scent( and person)has it's own molecular make up (like a fingerprint so to speak) that cant be covered or changed by placing another scent with it.
You ever see a bloodhound track someone? They can find where a single person sat in a baseball stadium full of people. Even with the smell of food, trash, and hundreds of other people walking around. This is because each scent( and person)has it's own molecular make up (like a fingerprint so to speak) that cant be covered or changed by placing another scent with it.
09-01-2008, 07:40 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 159
RE: Scent Control
ORIGINAL: Kybuckhunter
Cover scent is a waste of time.....Have you ever seen a buck trot across a corn field and smell your or a does scent with no problem at all? Don't you think the smell of the dirt, leaves, and corn stalks are by far a much stronger scent than what you or the doe left on the ground? ( Go ahead and put yournose to the ground and see what you smell).If cover scent worked then the buck would have a very hard time smelling you or the other deer in the much stronger scent of the corn field.
You ever see a bloodhound track someone? They can find where a single person sat in a baseball stadium full of people. Even with the smell of food, trash, and hundreds of other people walking around. This is because each scent( and person)has it's own molecular make up (like a fingerprint so to speak) that cant be covered or changed by placing another scent with it.
Cover scent is a waste of time.....Have you ever seen a buck trot across a corn field and smell your or a does scent with no problem at all? Don't you think the smell of the dirt, leaves, and corn stalks are by far a much stronger scent than what you or the doe left on the ground? ( Go ahead and put yournose to the ground and see what you smell).If cover scent worked then the buck would have a very hard time smelling you or the other deer in the much stronger scent of the corn field.
You ever see a bloodhound track someone? They can find where a single person sat in a baseball stadium full of people. Even with the smell of food, trash, and hundreds of other people walking around. This is because each scent( and person)has it's own molecular make up (like a fingerprint so to speak) that cant be covered or changed by placing another scent with it.
09-01-2008, 08:07 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,498
RE: Scent Control
Scent is scent...doesnt matter if it's on the ground or in the air. You just cant cover it up. Like I said, each scent have it's own molecular make up. Putting a scent waffer on your hat doesnt change anything. Your scent is still there and doesnt matter if it's your scent alone or 10 different scents. Many keep thinking in the terms in how we humans smell and it's just not the same.
I've seen bird dogs wind a quail a long way off and how many other animal and plant scents are in the air yet they can pick out the quail scent even with God knows how many other scents in the air.
The best thing you can do is just keep as clean as you can and play the wind.
I've seen bird dogs wind a quail a long way off and how many other animal and plant scents are in the air yet they can pick out the quail scent even with God knows how many other scents in the air.
The best thing you can do is just keep as clean as you can and play the wind.
09-02-2008, 10:24 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ohio and Indiana
Posts: 2,088
RE: Scent Control
Yea our region (Ohio,Kentucky, Indiana) hasnt produced any or manyacorns.. From white oaks that is.. I found a "Burr Oak" on a property I do landscaping for and Im gonna do the same thing. FIlled up a 5-gallon bucket of them last week. These acorns from burr oaks are the size of golf balls!
09-02-2008, 11:42 AM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 159
RE: Scent Control
ORIGINAL: Kybuckhunter
Scent is scent...doesnt matter if it's on the ground or in the air. You just cant cover it up. Like I said, each scent have it's own molecular make up. Putting a scent waffer on your hat doesnt change anything. Your scent is still there and doesnt matter if it's your scent alone or 10 different scents.
Scent is scent...doesnt matter if it's on the ground or in the air. You just cant cover it up. Like I said, each scent have it's own molecular make up. Putting a scent waffer on your hat doesnt change anything. Your scent is still there and doesnt matter if it's your scent alone or 10 different scents.
09-02-2008, 02:50 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,498
RE: Scent Control
ORIGINAL: jakelogsdon
Disagree. If your scent is weak enough in the first place, it can be covered (scent free showers, scent free deodorant etc...). Your personal scent must have a strong smelling "molecular makeup". Maybe from brewing all that whiskey. it's coming out of your pours.
ORIGINAL: Kybuckhunter
Scent is scent...doesnt matter if it's on the ground or in the air. You just cant cover it up. Like I said, each scent have it's own molecular make up. Putting a scent waffer on your hat doesnt change anything. Your scent is still there and doesnt matter if it's your scent alone or 10 different scents.
Scent is scent...doesnt matter if it's on the ground or in the air. You just cant cover it up. Like I said, each scent have it's own molecular make up. Putting a scent waffer on your hat doesnt change anything. Your scent is still there and doesnt matter if it's your scent alone or 10 different scents.
I have done all the scnet free things you can do and walked a short distance behind my house and still got busted by a deer. We will still give off a human oder no matter what we do. All we can do is keep as clean as we can to keep foreign and bacterial oder down to a minimum.
The human body sheds about 50 million cells each minute so unless you can set in a sealed bag you will always give off a scent trail.