Scent Control
 

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...

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No ideas on a scent cover that smells like acorns.. But I am having the same issue as you. Here in SW Ohio and SE Indiana (where my hunting property is), all the white oaks didnt produce any acorns. I finally found one oak on the property I manage that is producing acorns. Its a "Burr Oak". Giant acorns the size of golf balls.

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I use two different cover scents ... cedar branches and dried leaves.

I cut the cedar branches and then boil them in water. I then filter the water and place it in a spray bottle and carry it with me into the woods and periodically spray it during the day.

I also place my hunting clothes in a garbage bag with some of the cedar branches after I have washed them in scent-free wash.

With the leaves, I dry them and then before entering the woods, I burn them and allow the smoke to permeate the clothing including my hat. Be sure to "smoke" all areas were one sweat glands are located, arm pits, crotch, neck and etc.

I've been doing this for over thirty years and have had deer literally step on me while still huntin'!

I too live in Kentucky ... Good Luck!

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How many acorns do you need???

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no shortage of acorns at my house or my stand. im tired of mowin em

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i just use store bought scent illiminators, i.e. scent away

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I just use Scent Killer. Thought about throwing some cedar branches in my tote, but I don.t hunt around cedar trees. Don't know if that would make a difference though.

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I just got done washing my hunting clothes , I let them hang outside all day to dry. Now what i do isput my scent lock clothes in the dryer for 10 minutes to active them and put them in a scent free duffle bag. The rest of my clothes i put in a duffle bag and put three earth scent wafers in the bag with them. I have been doing this for years I think it works pretty well.

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you dont need to many acorns, maybe 50... but i collect more than that i leave them around my stand to help attract the deer.

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And I forgot 1 important thing. I don't eat Taco Johns the night before.

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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.

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I thought you used scentlok washin detergent!!!!! I never even KNEW about doing some of this stuff!!!! What good information guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!

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http://www.answers.com/topic/acorn-deer

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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.

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I agree with the blood hound statement. However, I think he is inquiring about a persons scent in the wind not in their tracks. I believe that it is very possible to cover or mask your scent in the wind, to a certain extent. Trails are a different story. Some animals can track you simply from the disturbance your foot makes in the ground alone (all scents aside).

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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.

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50-50 vanilla and water smells a lot like white oak acorns.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Taking showers, scent free deoderant, etc....is not cover scent. Its controlling your scent. Thats not the same as covering it with another scent. If you notice in my reply I said the best thing you can do is keep as clean as you can and hunt the wind. It must have slipped past you....

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.

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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.