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Timo:
 I was reading about the home brew cover scents on in primitive skills. Never really tried that and don't use a lot of cover scents per say. Just always tried to hunt the wind and stay clean.

I have use white wood ashes with  good success (maybe be the charcoal in them)and also carry red cedar berries in my pockets,just smash them in my hands and wipe down with them.They seem to help alot.

Question......has anyone here ever did the "smoked clothes" thing? I've had a few hunting friends say it works. I've never tried it on purpose,but have had them smoked around hunting camps and such. Never noticed much difference.

El Destructo:
No...I just keep mine in the Wife's Cedar Chest all Year Long...and since where I Hunt has Native Cedars....seems to work just Great....ain't never been winded yet!

Justin Snyder:

--- Quote from: El Destructo on September 06, 2009, 11:05:17 am ---No...I just keep mine in the Wife's Cedar Chest all Year Long...and since where I Hunt has Native Cedars....seems to work just Great....ain't never been winded yet!

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Well, at least not that you are aware of.  8)

I like to keep odor to a minimum and use the wind in my favor. Skunk is as strong a cover scent as you can find. But you still smell like a hunter, just one that has been sprayed by a skunk.  :-\

Pat B:
Tim, I see smoke as a nature neutral scent and not alarming to animals...but that depends on the source of the smoke. If it is from a controlled fire with natural, local materials like wood and grasses it should not necessarily startle  animals but if you use the common campfire smoke you are probably getting beer and soda cans, plastic bottles, plates and cups, uneaten food, etc mixed in and this can be alarming to animals that are being hunted.
   That said, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said you hunt into the wind and go into the woods clean. Cover scents make us, the hunter, seem invisible but in fact, no matter what or how much cover scent one uses, if your scent stream hits an animal's nose, the game is over. The same goes with commercial camo. Is it necessary? Is it the pattern you wear or your actions(or inaction's) in the woods that makes you invisible?  

FlintWalker:
I never use any cover scent. I try to smell as much like "nothing" as possible and don't think cover scent works.  I believe a deer's nose is so sensitive that he can still pick up human odor even if you soak down in cover scent.
  Smoking your clothes might work, but IMO that's just another odor to catch his attention.

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