Deer Hunting Basics
04-20-2015, 11:43 AM
#71
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
That MAY work if you are hunting very close to a blooming mint patch and I stress the word MAY. Otherwise the deer are going to pick up on a scent not native to their habitat and high tail it out of that section. Cover scents or "masking" scents do not generally work. They may help a small bit in delaying the warning but not very much. Wind is both your friend as well as your enemy. Odor neutralizers with anti bacterial agents in them are better as they destroy the actual "odor" molecules that the deer's olfactory system picks up and detects. They nor anything else is 100%.
Last edited by super_hunt54; 04-20-2015 at 01:55 PM. Reason: Spelling was horrid.
04-20-2015, 12:21 PM
#72
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: south eastern PA
Posts: 15,436
.Patricia, unless you do not breath, you will never hide your scent from deer. Using mint soap while hunting in an area that does not have mint is introducing a foriegn odor to the area and it will not cover all human scent. I will leave it at that.
Last edited by Oldtimr; 04-20-2015 at 12:25 PM.
04-20-2015, 12:44 PM
#73
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
I do nearly all my deer hunting in CO. Since there isn't any wild patches of mint anywhere near that, I'm fairly certain that any deer would immediately go on the alert when they smell it.
