Cover Scent

[TreyB]

What do u all use as a cover scent.... Saw Walmart carried some that smelled like SMOKE. No thanks.

 

[infoman jr.]

I prefer to be as scent free as possible.

 

[TreyB]

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Code-Blue-Sm ... /412570528

 

[TreyB]

I prefer to be as scent free as possible.

Same here... I just dead down wind.

 

[Mike Belt]

Not that it's 100% effective but you're probably better off with a scent killer than a cover scent.

 

[THEdonkey0515]

I just use this & I only use it in bow season I know it probably don't help I guess it's just in my head. Kinda like face mask I feel the need to have my face covered while in the stand bow-gun just something in my head I don't feel comfortable unless it's covered & I don't feel comfortable in bow with out scent killer.

 

[red_top_ridge]

I use a scent killer.

 

[dgolden]

I read a lengthy article not long ago about scent killer/scent away etc. vs. a cover scent. Pretty sure it was in Field and Stream. Long story short, the cover scent along with being scent free as possible worked best.
I've been thinking about making my own cover scent. I have a place with a lot of pines. Thought about taking some fresh pine needles and putting them in a blender with water. Then drain the water into a spray bottle. Just an idea at this time though!

 

[THEdonkey0515]

I read a lengthy article not long ago about scent killer/scent away etc. vs. a cover scent. Pretty sure it was in Field and Stream. Long story short, the cover scent along with being scent free as possible worked best.
I've been thinking about making my own cover scent. I have a place with a lot of pines. Thought about taking some fresh pine needles and putting them in a blender with water. Then drain the water into a spray bottle. Just an idea at this time though!

Take you pine needles/pine cones and other sticks, honeysuckle,etc... and boil them a good bit then drain the water into a spray bottle works pretty well.

Vanilla also makes good cover scents.

 

[TNGunhunter]

I use scent killer, then snip a few small cedar branches on my way to the stand and hang them up. I've had deer within 5-10 yards of me, looking at me, and not spook. And, I'm a smoker.

 

[foodplot]

You are better off using sent killer and then using something natural and local to your hunting area.... I have pines on my property so most of the time i break off a branch and break the needles up with my hands you can rub that on your hat clothes boots etc.
When i am hunting hardwoods I have put fallen oak leaves in a trash bag then put my hunting clothes in with them overnight..... when you get in your tree the next morning you smell like the woods.....

 

[UTGrad]

Take a smelly dump and try to cover up the smell with air freshener. What do you smell? Crap and air freshener.

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[Mike Belt]

I have rubbed pine needles or cedar branches on my clothing particularly when that's the kind of tree I'm sitting in.

 

[knightrider]

I use tide and Irish spring, the deer never complain until it's too late

 

[HunterVol1143]

I have a small ozone machine that I started using last year. I put it in a tote with my clothes and get dressed when I get to my hunting spot and then spray down with scent killer and put nose jammer on the bottom of my boots. Last year was the first year doing that and I had multiple older does walk right up to my tree and never spook or even look my way.


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[Pic IN the Casa]

I store clothes in a bin with cedar branches and if I find fresh deer turds I add them.
I am also an Evercalm fan. Say whatever, but I believe it has saved me from being busted several times.

 

[Hardwoodmaterials]

I know for a fact that you can't trick a dog with cover scent or scent killer. A dog can track and wind you no matter what. I have read that deer can sort out individual scents in what it smells so basically it would smell you, cover scent and whatever else is in the woods and can tell it all apart. So I just use Irish Spring, scent free deodorant, give my clothes a quick spray of scent killer if I remember it and most importantly try to hunt with the wind to my advantage.

 

[Bucky]

Makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxwTc_ZsOrY

 

[CDUB]

White Oak Whiskey

 

[TreyB]

Makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxwTc_ZsOrY

Do that and let me know. :rotf:

 

[csi-tech]

I often spray raccoon urine on my boots, carry some dirt or red cedar wafers on my person after spraying down liberally with Dead Downwind. I have experimented with all of these things with my dogs. None of them really work as advertised. The very best thing you can do is play the wind and mitigate your own scent as much as possible.

 

[wsm]

I have used earth wafers to cover my scent.I thing it helps.

 

[DRSJ35]

I been making my own for the past 3 year's. You can make a couple gallons for around 5 dollars. And i don't usually even use that much. I make a scent killer and a cover scent. And I have had deer up very close so i know it work's. And I like to making it.

 

[THEdonkey0515]

I been making my own for the past 3 year's. You can make a couple gallons for around 5 dollars. And i don't usually even use that much. I make a scent killer and a cover scent. And I have had deer up very close so i know it work's. And I like to making it.

How do you make it?

 

[Winchester]

Really no such thing as a "cover" scent. Deer can discern several smells at once and you still smell like a human with pine needles in your hair. Most research agrees that minimizing your human scent as much as possible is the best you can do.

 

[red_top_ridge]

I been making my own for the past 3 year's. You can make a couple gallons for around 5 dollars. And i don't usually even use that much. I make a scent killer and a cover scent. And I have had deer up very close so i know it work's. And I like to making it.

How do you make it?

I too would be most definitely interested in that recipe for the cover scent if you'd be willing to share.

 

[UTGrad]

Really no such thing as a "cover" scent. Deer can discern several smells at once and you still smell like a human with pine needles in your hair. Most research agrees that minimizing your human scent as much as possible is the best you can do.

I agree with this 100%.

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