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Scent control
Hillbilly:
Like everybody else said, if you're upwind of a deer, it'll smell you. If you're downwind, it won't. I wash my hunting clothes in baking soda and don't use scented soap if I'm hunting. I figure like Pappy said, they'll still smell you, but might fool them into thinking you're farther away than you actually are.
TRACY:
Use the wind to your advantage. You will always leave a foreign scent no matter what you do. Some of these methods of scent control may reduce the amount of scent that you leave behind, but you still smell like a human. If the scent products give you more confidence then by all means use them.
brokennock:
O.K. one thing I don't get. Why would one scent their clothing with woodsmoke?? Why smell like a forest fire, I'd think most animals, like people, would want to get away from the fire????
I love the smell of a campfire but can't see why a deer would.
I too know many people who have killed deer at close range while smoking. My buddy Gary burned his self doing this.
Stonedog:
Here in Kentucky, we don't have forest fires....none that come to mind in my 32yr old brain anyway. Woodsmoke is a natural smell. I have not worried about woodsmoke in my clothes for the past 5 years. No issues. In those five years I have killed 22 whitetails. None over 30 yards, be it with flintlock or longbow. Three of them were shot when the WALKED UP TO MY CAMPFIRE in the morning! Twice on real cold days....I made a small fire.....buried it then sat over it wrapped in my wool blanket....warm as can be and killed a deer.
Woodsmoke on your clothes aint a bad thing....but the biggest thing to do is play the wind...and be mindful how it blows up into the hollars....
DanaM:
I remember reading an article in one of the hunting mags years ago. It was about old timers using the method you describe
Stonedog, build a fire and wait for the deers curiousity to bring them in.
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