Cover sent for deer hunting/ever thought of this?
#1
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North East PA. but not home.
Posts: 743
Cover sent for deer hunting/ever thought of this?
Some of us use it and/or wear special outfits,made to stop your body sent.
I always thought it was a good idea,until i realized this; If you hunt you have to breathe! Each breath,on average,is 1/2 a liter of air,at about 30 to 50 per minute! How do you cover this sent up? Thats a large volume of human sent,getting pumped into you hunting area????
What do you folks think?
I always thought it was a good idea,until i realized this; If you hunt you have to breathe! Each breath,on average,is 1/2 a liter of air,at about 30 to 50 per minute! How do you cover this sent up? Thats a large volume of human sent,getting pumped into you hunting area????
What do you folks think?
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Northern WI
Posts: 853
I think you hunt the wind, no matter what you do. But what I do for my breath is brush with baking soda or some hydrogen peroxide. If there are apples around, eating an apple on the stand might help - at least it keeps me from getting hungry. But unless you are 20+ feet up (which I do not like to be) or you are in a blind that allows your scent to be vented up a chimney pipe or completely contained, you will get busted I think if you are up wind. But even if you are down wind, often a deer will approach from behind and along the side - taking every measure possible decreases chances of getting busted that way.
Last edited by MZS; 01-12-2013 at 03:57 PM. Reason: replaced up with down.
#4
I think you hunt the wind, no matter what you do. But what I do for my breath is brush with baking soda or some hydrogen peroxide. If there are apples around, eating an apple on the stand might help - at least it keeps me from getting hungry. But unless you are 20+ feet up (which I do not like to be) or you are in a blind that allows your scent to be vented up a chimney pipe or completely contained, you will get busted I think if you are up wind. But even if you are up wind, often a deer will approach from behind and along the side - taking every measure possible decreases chances of getting busted that way.
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Hunting the wind is definitely the way to go. I've hunted for decades and killed way more than my share of big game and I've never used any special washing machine stuff for my hunting clothes, etc. When I bow hunt I do put some fox urine on my rubber boots and around the tree I'm in and that's about it.
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
Ever heard of Gum-O-Flauge? (spelling?)
They already thought of covering up the scent from our breathe,the Hunters Specialties has a scent-free kit with special tooth paste,mouth wash and even breathe mint to conceal our bad breathe when Hunting along with un-scented under arm anti-persperant and their scent free detergent and shampoo!
They already thought of covering up the scent from our breathe,the Hunters Specialties has a scent-free kit with special tooth paste,mouth wash and even breathe mint to conceal our bad breathe when Hunting along with un-scented under arm anti-persperant and their scent free detergent and shampoo!