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Question about masking your scent
steve b.:
Vegetarian diet and/or chlorophyll (sp?) tablets starting a month before the hunt.
Smoke bath, as mentioned
Toss some baking soda into the armpits and underwear
Bag the clothes as mentioned and hang them away from camp
And of course, the wind.
agd68:
I used to be very active working with our Natural Resources teaching the Bow hunters course, one of our instructors was also the Provincial Deer biologist. He did a very informative presentation on white tail and that was one topic he addressed. Here is what he said. How do you defeat a white tails nose ? YOU CANT. Science jabber dummified, they have the ability to sift and sort a whole bagful of scents and identify individual ones. Best tactics to use he advised was 1. use the wind to your advantage 2. get off the ground into a stand. Try to minimize your odors as best you can and use cover scents and bait or attractant lures, this will help but not defeat that super sniffer. One trick we use on bears is to hang a sweaty T shirt at the bait sight. after a while they get use to the smell and seem to ignore it. That way any new scent you lay down on your way in or out is not alarming.
PEARL DRUMS:
The best thing I ever did regarding stink control was to comepletely change out of my hunting clothes on the tail gate and put them in plastic containers, every single hunt no matter what weather I was standing in. I rarely get whiffed anymore, most of that is using the wind and the rest is from a lack of residual odor off my clothes and boots being all but gone. I spray myself every two hunts as well. My boots get sprayed every hunt.
David_Daugherty:
Thanks for all the replies. This has been a very interesting topic. Again 2 days ago I was playing the wind as usual and the deer chose the one path that took him/her down wind from me. It was too thick of cover to see the deer but I could clearly hear them walking through the dry leaves. Once down wind from me they stopped and I never heard anther step or sound from them. But they didn't blow me. I found that curious, knowing they winded me but didn't blow. I guess they didn't care enough about their buddies to warn them, lol.
David_Daugherty:
Here's an update on what I have done since this post. I have combined pine needles, fat kinlin, bay leaves, cedar, and baking soda. Boiled this for about 20 minutes. Let cool with lid on then strain. I put the cover scent into a spray bottle and apply it befor I enter the woods. Also take a little spray bottle to apply small amounts about every hour I'm on the stand. So far I have had deer walk by me, under me and all around me. Nothing has smelled me as of yet. Today I had a 6 point and 8 point come withing 5 feet of me (from down wind at that). I shot the 8. I also bathe with non scent soap prior to hitting the woods as well. But so far this new ritual seems to be paying off :)
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