Scents?
 

Before i go hunting i always spray myself with scent killer and a little racoon urine on my boots. I was wondering what you do to cover/eliminate your scent? Also have any of you found a attractant scent that you believe truly works?

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I use a cover scent or scent killer, I think that they are good. As for the attractants, I quit wasting money on them. I have never had any sure proof that they work. I'm sure that in some places they do work, they just haven't for me.

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I use scent shield and an earth scent cover up, but as I have said before I have seen deer with and without the scents so if they are really needed, I dont know. Play the wind.

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I have confidence in scent killer spray. I think it really works. I have used both kinds the regular that kills your scent and the fall formula that also smells like dirt. I spray all my clothes and gear. Have had good luck with both kinds.

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I'm not a big fan of scent attractancts. But, I use the cover scents anytime I go out. I will also store all of my clothes in a scent proof back with a dirt scent wafer.

When I head out to my stand, I use a scent pad on the bottom of my boots and spray them with coon or fox urine.

This seems to work most of the time, but you cannot completely eliminate your scent you can only mask it to a certain degree which may be the difference b/t seeing deer or just squirrels.

I am a firm believer in playing the wind. You can never be 100% scent free however i do think they will help if he gets downwind of you. I use scent killers and also put a Whitetail life "Stud Finder" in tree with me with cover scent in it.

I agree it's important to play the wind. The issue I have is where the deer move on my property is such a narrow corridor that playing the wind doesn't always work.

Like several of you I use a mix of scent killer and cover scents. I have no proof but I rotate my cover scent each time I use a stand (fox one time, then racoon or skunk) so that the deer don't associate a certain scent to danger.

I have lost my faith in scent trapping clothing. When Scentloc first came out I know it worked because the deer bedded down right under my stand during an early October hunt. I bought their newer stuff a few years ago but was not impressed.

One note about raccoon scent. Be care putting on your clothes and wearing it into your stand. I once had a confrontation with an angry boar who climbed my tree looking for the intruder in his territory. :s2:

This seems to work most of the time, but you cannot completely eliminate your scent you can only mask it to a certain degree which may be the difference b/t seeing deer or just squirrels.

I use scent killers and also put a Whitetail life "Stud Finder" in tree with me with cover scent in it.

Cover scent doesn't work and if it did it would be free anyway.

I found this article interesting. I never use scents or scent reducing sprays.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/articl...reducing-produ

That article is worthless to a hunter. That is not hunting it is being hunted which is a very different task. Had the dog been task with avoiding humans he would have just left right off the start.

It makes no sense what so ever. Deer don't hunt people and that is what they tested.

I disagree; I found the article of value. You make a good point that a dog is a predator, and deer are prey, but I found the fact that cover scent was effective at masking human scent to ANY degree, informative. I always figured cover scent did nothing. An unanswered question is if a dog had the same number of receptors in its nose that a deer has, would the test have had the same results.

The article does not show us that cover scent was effective at masking human scent. It shows us that a dog reacted differently to the addition of more scents. Something that makes no difference to a deer.

The dog was trying to distinguish between multiple boxes that all smelled like human and or human+skunk etc and determine which box the human was currently in.

Deer smells human and doesn't care which box its coming from.

The test does not relate to hunting a deer....it relates to being hunted by a dog.

The only real relevance is no matter what they did the dog always knew there was a human and that is all a deer needs to know.

Think about what they did and the difference

The dog was task with deciding which of multiple boxes with varying degrees of human odor currently housed a human......the deer are task with do you smell a human or not?

Its apples and oranges.

Ive done my own experiment over the course of the last 20+ years and it just doesn't work.

I was not finding what they had to say about scent killer type sprays? Perhaps it was there but I missed it.

I guess my problem with cover scents is that it might draw a deer's attention. The dog was not worried about predators - he only wanted to find the guy, so that was his only objective - the cover scent did not draw his attention. But a deer is different - it seems any new scent will draw a deer's attention - I will even find all kinds of deer tracks right after I treat an area with Roundup. If I draw a deer's attention, it is generally always a bad thing, even if they do not smell a bit of my scent. If I use scent products, I am careful to bag them up good and only apply them far enough away from me.

Here are my results of many years of hunting with and without cover scents and scent eliminators.

Deer that are downwind smell me and deer that are not downwind don't.

MZS, the scent killer test was only referenced. Here's the link:
http://www.fieldandstream.com/articl...e-a-difference
Unlike the cover scent test, there was no difference in each arm of the test.

I see! 13 seconds, and that was WITH carbon clothing as well!
Hunt the wind, hunt the wind, hunt the wind!

And that is with using human scent in other locations to try to throw the dog off exact location which obviously makes no sense at all when it comes to hunting.

If you think your fooling a deers nose by using any scent spray or cover scent your getting busted by deer and don't even know it. If you want to kill a big buck scent killer or cover scent will not help you in any way. Deer can smell several diff scents at the same time and know exactly ware it came from. I've killed non of my buck using these scams.

I have not had much success with cover scents. I've used raccoon an fox (will not use skunk) killed some deer sometimes didn't. I have used an like scent killer fall blend an I take a scent killer soap shower and wash my hunting clothes in it. The clothes either stay in the truck or outside as much as possible.

I still hunt the wind, very important, of anything you do. IMO

Last season I started using a HECs suit. I wasn't sure it would work, but deer seemed confused when they looked at me on the ground and didn't get alarmed. I tagged out (5 deer) last season all taken on the ground. Still not 100% it works as I was watching the wind too on top of the scent killer. I will be using it from now on tho...

I always thought that if you use skunk urine that's I sign of danger. Only time a skunk.
Sprays is when it feels threatened. That's just my thought on it. I have had good luck with doe in heat lures bucks come in with nose up and lips currled to they get the scent I place it in the tink bombs so it's hanging on trees on directly on the ground. Only had luck with it in the peek of the rut. So again it's hit or miss. I have herd people had good luck with elk in heat lure for deer. The only lure I use is tinks, my dad personally knows Tink Nathan so that my be why we use it but that's all I ever used. As of cover sent I have used it and killed deer, but most of time I do not use it and are just as lucky.

If you really stop and think about it the concept is really just silly.

A deers nose is designed to pick danger up in an environment with all kinds of natural scents.....that is what they do.

If acorns,dirt,leaves,cedars urine etc. tricked their nose they would be in big trouble because they live with all those things daily.

If the real acorns all over the woods don't mask your scent some artificial acorn scent on your shirt probably won't either.

Any one know were i can get some skunk smell.

The hard way, or the easy way?

Gee thanks!

I have designed a new scent dispenser. I need help coming up with a name for it. Any suggestions???

Never used any of it. I have had deer come to within 5 feet of me trying to figure out what I was. Same with antelope. Just another money grab IMO.