Scent control?
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 262
Scent control?
So ive been reading alot of scent control topics on here and some guys seem to be hardcore and others seem to care less. It got me wondering how scent free can we really be? I mean i wear the hats i hunt in year round and i wear my rubber boots to the farm and the realease i use to bowhunt with i also use to bowfish with. I spray everything down befor i go hunt but i gurantee it doesnt get rid of every little thing. What do some of you guys think?
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 542
I personally don't buy into the scent control stuff that much. Can they reduce your scent, maybe, but I am not sure it can do it enough. Besides that, what did you eat? Are you chewing gum or tobacco? Did you brush your teeth? The deer will smell your breath as well as the rest of you. I do use scent free soap on the clothes and sometimes myself and scent free deo. Other than that, I try to stay downwind from them. I think the scent free craze is more about separating a hunter from his money.
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 186
I personally don't buy into the scent control stuff that much. Can they reduce your scent, maybe, but I am not sure it can do it enough. Besides that, what did you eat? Are you chewing gum or tobacco? Did you brush your teeth? The deer will smell your breath as well as the rest of you. I do use scent free soap on the clothes and sometimes myself and scent free deo. Other than that, I try to stay downwind from them. I think the scent free craze is more about separating a hunter from his money.
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Anne Arrundle County, Maryland
Posts: 1,672
Here's what I do and have had great success with it. I wash all my clothes with Scent-A-Way and shower with it the morning of the hunt. About 150 yards or so from my stand I spray the bottom of my boots with raccoon pee, then at my stand (ladder) I spray raccoon pee at the base of the tree and on the first coule of ladder rungs that I touch, then spray again arround the tree at body height where I sit in the stand. The thing is to try to eliminate as much of your scent as posseble then cover the rest. Try it and I'll bet you will get hooked just like I am. I won't go into the woods deer hunting without a bottle of raccoon pee in my pocket.
#8
Here's what I do and have had great success with it. I wash all my clothes with Scent-A-Way and shower with it the morning of the hunt. About 150 yards or so from my stand I spray the bottom of my boots with raccoon pee, then at my stand (ladder) I spray raccoon pee at the base of the tree and on the first coule of ladder rungs that I touch, then spray again arround the tree at body height where I sit in the stand. The thing is to try to eliminate as much of your scent as posseble then cover the rest. Try it and I'll bet you will get hooked just like I am. I won't go into the woods deer hunting without a bottle of raccoon pee in my pocket.
Have a great season!
Live it up! Doug
#10
Senseless.. If you want to do all that.. good for you! But you don't need to do all that to go undetected in the woods. Been going in the woods for over 45 years and hunting the same place for over 25... you don't need to do that to get close to deer. Having said that I'm happy for you if that is what you like to do.
Have a great season!
Live it up! Doug
Have a great season!
Live it up! Doug