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i figured out what i am going to do...cabelas has acorn scented waffers that i am going to buy :)

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the HS scent wafers work very well, at our hunt club a lot of us choose to clip them onto our hats. Of course, remember, just clipping a scent wafer on somewhere isn't going to totally cover your scent as we're covered head to toe in scent. Good luck!

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i usually let my clothes sit in a scent free bag with a scent killer or some acorns, and before i go out into the field i spray my self down with a scent killer, but i will definetly clip a scent waffer onto my hat the upcoming season.

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After all your scent free things you should have sprayed some acorn scented stuff on you. Or got a wafer to pin to your hat.

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I guess you got this deer hunting thing worked out.....How long you been hunting? I've been deer hunting close to 30 years. Believe it or not I've seen and learned a few things along the way. I try to pass on a tip or two when I can but some guys already know it all so I guess I'm just wasting your time and mine. Good luck to you.

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I also dont believe to much in cover scents. I thinka deers nose is so good that it is still gonna smell you plus whatever you have on. I heard it explained on another forum once that it is like when I walk into a room with a pizza, I smell pizza. But a deer would smell tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, sausage, dough, ect. ect... Cover scents dont eliminate my scent, they just add an additional scent to it.

But that said, I still through a couple of fresh earth scent wafers in my hunting clothes tub just in case;)

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Grizzly winter green

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since i have started covering my clothes in the acorn scent i have had mutiple deer walk directly beneath my stand, a few were even really nice older bucks and they had no clue that i was there

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If it's doing such a good job of covering your scent then why not hunt from the ground?

I've had deer what looked to me straight down wind many times and not smell me. Sometimes the wind swirls or carries your scent in other directions than what you think.

Weather plays a big roll also. If you hunt with dogs you will see some days a dog can smell a bird with no trouble at all and other days they will walk right past them. On the dry days they have a hard time picking up the scent. Nothing the bird did different to not get smelled just that the conditions changed.

In the early days I tried every cover scent you could think of and some you will never think of. If it makes you feel better thats fine but.... I wouldnt put so much trust in it that I make bad choices and hunt an area when conditions are not right. You will never know how many deer you do scare away. They all dont snort and run away. Many times they will pattern you and you will never know it.

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I don't use cover scents, unless you call pine needles and weeds rubbed on my clothes and bootscover scents. I guess I shouldsay I don't use commercial man made cover scents.I do wash my clothes in scent-uv brightener free detergent, take a shower with scent free soap, use scent free deodorant, brush my teeth with baking soda, and keep all of my hunting clothing in bags. It's worked well for me all these years.