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#2144475 - 11/03/10 07:14 AM RE every scent thread
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While talking about the finer points of scent control, something came to my little mind. We have discussed all kinds of methods, from shower to stand. Well I got to thinking....kinda dangerous I know, but think about this. If you use towels and wash cloths that have been washed in scent free detergent.....what about the chlorine and other chemicals that are in city fed tap water? Would they not still stay on you? I feel that, if you have well water, you have yet one more advantage in the scent control war. Any comments on this revelation?
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#2144484 - 11/03/10 07:19 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: MUP]
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No MUP! No! Tell me it ain't so. You too!!!!


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IMO anything you have on your person. A deer will smell it. If it knew what it was smelling it could probably tell what you had for breakfast.
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#2144489 - 11/03/10 07:23 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: KENBOB10]
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There is no way to be scent free. You just reduce your scent as much as possible.
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#2144497 - 11/03/10 07:27 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: BSK]
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You can't be completely scent free is absolutely correct. So make yourself smell different. Read my post on the most recent "scent control" thread
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#2144507 - 11/03/10 07:33 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: BSK]
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Oh I know you can't fool the nose, just kinda dissecting the showering strategy a little. Wouldn't you think that using non treated well water would enhance your "scentlessness" over treated water?
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#2144512 - 11/03/10 07:34 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Robbhorn]
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even after I wash all my clothes in Scent-Away. I even wash an extra towel in scent away too.


I let those clothes and that towel hang out in the breeze all week on the back porch.


one hitch, my wife grilled hamburgers yesterday with our gas grill. She failed to tell me that she was going to do so. Now my hunting clothes smell like Burger King.

start over
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#2144525 - 11/03/10 07:40 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Stovepipe]
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 Originally Posted By: Stovepipe
even after I wash all my clothes in Scent-Away. I even wash an extra towel in scent away too.


I let those clothes and that towel hang out in the breeze all week on the back porch.


one hitch, my wife grilled hamburgers yesterday with our gas grill. She failed to tell me that she was going to do so. Now my hunting clothes smell like Burger King.

start over


I know some cagey old hunters who lay their hunting clothes near a camp fire so that they get "smoked". They swear that it is the best cover scent you can use. It makes some sense. Wood smoke is a pretty common smell for deer I am sure, and I doubt they necessarily associate the smell with humans. I don't know.

I read an article years ago about a man who could stalk up and touch deer and other game. Simply amazing. He moved inperceptably slow and his cover scent was rubbing himself with black soot from camp fires.

We wash all our clothes and towells in Free and Clear detergent. It has pretty much the same effect as the Scent-Away products for a lot less money. Any scent free detergent serves the purpose.


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#2144610 - 11/03/10 08:23 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: MUP]
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I have been using a scented oil (apple&cinnamon) with good success at confusing the deer when they get down wind of me . They know they smell some thing that 's not quite right but it hasn't alarmed the deer . This oil stays on the ground for a long period of time compared to scent you buy , and this stuff is really cheap. It kinda covers up your scent . Now we do know that all things don't work all of the time and just when you depend on some thing it lets you down but it can't hurt because if they get down wind they are apt to smell you any way ! Best kept secret I'll share with you all ;)Only trying to help !! :)I have been getting it at the Dollar Tree .

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#2144622 - 11/03/10 08:28 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Snake]
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\:D I lay in the creek behind the house and use sent free soap then dance around the fire and smoke- light sage brush and chant
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#2144650 - 11/03/10 08:44 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Goshen Valley Boy]
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Soot and ash are almost all carbon... So it would make complete sense that this would work. I'm gonna try it!
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#2144652 - 11/03/10 08:46 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: tndad]
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LOL, there is no such thing as a cover scent first off, deer can discern several smells at once. And for the smoke deal, people dont do it for a cover scent, its because the smoke actually impedes the growth of bacteria, hence keeping you from stinking as quickly as normal. Sorta like smoking meat, keeps bacteria from growing! I myself dispise my hair and clothes smelling like smoke, and will take the scent free as possible route myself!
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#2144684 - 11/03/10 09:04 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Robbhorn]
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 Originally Posted By: Robbhorn
Soot and ash are almost all carbon... So it would make complete sense that this would work. I'm gonna try it!


Would probaby make some good camo paint as well! ;\)
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#2144695 - 11/03/10 09:10 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: MUP]
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I think some people have ,a bit more trouble with scent then others

Myself I have rarely been busted by scent They hear or see me but I must not smell as threatening to the deer as other people.
I have had deer walk almost to me ...I know they smell me.
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#2146064 - 11/03/10 08:15 PM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Goshen Valley Boy]
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 Originally Posted By: Goshen Valley Boy
[I know some cagey old hunters who lay their hunting clothes near a camp fire so that they get "smoked". They swear that it is the best cover scent you can use. It makes some sense.


Well, if you think you can "cover" human scent with other stronger scents, then it makes sense. But since you can't...
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#2146209 - 11/03/10 09:09 PM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: BSK]
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I use to work for a local water company, and the most common water softner is a product called aquadean. Which is a odorless granule. As far as chlorine goes its odorless until it is contained. For example a plastic bottle of tap water, swimming pools, and water spickets that have backflow preventers that are seldom used,etc.... Oh almost forgot chlorine in tap water is supplemented in a gas form, a leaking chlorine cyclinder is odorless so you have to use a spray bottle of amonia totest for leaks. The amonia will start smoking if leak is indicated.
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#2146304 - 11/03/10 09:49 PM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Robbhorn]
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the scent game can become ocd. i went away from it for a few years but am now back.
you will not totally eliminate your smell but you can tone it way down. it has to help some.

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#2146528 - 11/04/10 06:12 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Ol'Mossyback]
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 Originally Posted By: Ol'Mossyback
I use to work for a local water company, and the most common water softner is a product called aquadean. Which is a odorless granule. As far as chlorine goes its odorless until it is contained. For example a plastic bottle of tap water, swimming pools, and water spickets that have backflow preventers that are seldom used,etc.... Oh almost forgot chlorine in tap water is supplemented in a gas form, a leaking chlorine cyclinder is odorless so you have to use a spray bottle of amonia totest for leaks. The amonia will start smoking if leak is indicated.


Cool! I appreciate your insight into this OlMossyback! ;\)
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#2146552 - 11/04/10 06:26 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: MUP]
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The most dangerous smell is YOU! Deer smell the human scent! That is the main one to try to deal with. About the only thing you can do is shower before hunting - to get clean and remove as much of the dead skin cells as possible. I also cover as much of my skin as possible when walking into my stand (gloves, long sleeves) to keep dead skin cells from getting on limbs and on the ground.

As far as cover scent...as Winchester said, deer can discern many scents at one time. Back in the day, it used to be popular to put skunk scent or red fox urine on your boots when walking to your stand to "cover" your path in. I always chuckled to myself...because I could almost read the deers mind as they sniffed the ground, they would think: "There is some stupid hunter walking next to a skunk, whatta dope."


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#2146599 - 11/04/10 06:59 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: pastorbmp]
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Did anyone else read that article I was referring to? It may have been in Field and Stream. It would have been 5 to 10 years ago.

It was about a man who could still hunt so slowly across a field that he could routinely touch unsuspecting deer and had even done it with coyotes. It told how slowly he moved. It told what he used as camo. It mentioned that he rubbed burned campfire wood and ashes over him before he did it.

I would love to find a link to that article. It was an amazing story.


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#2146825 - 11/04/10 09:28 AM Re: RE every scent thread [Re: Goshen Valley Boy]
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I still haven't found the article, but I did find the man who it was written about. His name is Tom Brown Jr. He is a pretty unique dude. Google him when you get a chance.
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