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Does anyone think it affects your regular hunting clothes or scent-lok apparel after you've washed it in scent free soap and put it in your dryer with scent free dryer sheets to activate the carbon again, when you have used scented dryer sheets all year long for your everyday clothes.
 
Carbon suits and scent killers are as useless as you know what on a boar hog.
My opinion, but anything you can rip a fart in and smell it is doing nothing for containing scent. Never been able to tell any difference in success using and not using any of those products.
But whatever gives you more confidence.
 
For the folks who dry on a line outside:

During the season, when you wash the clothes again and hang them to dry, how do you keep them from freezing up in the cold? I like to dry mine in the machine and then put them in a vacuum sealed bag before I head out. Do y'all just let ten dry outside in the cold and then bag/box them up, giving them time to warm up? If so, wouldn't you have to do this a good bit in advance of your next planned hunt?
 
My hunting clothes have never seen the inside of a dryer�outside for me.

Word of caution, double check the washing machine for a soap ring around the underside of the agitator wings and a ring around the top of the tub�especially if liquid fabric softener is used, as it will leave behind a buildup over time. Before I wash my clothes before season, I always check this and end up scrubbing it down with scentfree soap and baking soda....otherwise I might as well wash my clothes in mountain rain or ocean breeze. ;)
 
Eric Kilby said:
Ever heard of freeze dried? Lol I let them dry outside during the warmest part of the day then put them back into my Rubbermaid container that I have been using for years to keep camo in. Putting on cold clothes wakes you up in the morning lol
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What EK said pretty much. I don't know what I would do if we actually had a Winter season around here tho. :o :grin: I do have several sets of clothes washed, dried, and in storage containers tho, for those extended periods that I may not be able to wash and dry on a good schedule.
 
archer19 said:
Carbon suits and scent killers are as useless as you know what on a boar hog.
My opinion, but anything you can rip a fart in and smell it is doing nothing for containing scent. Never been able to tell any difference in success using and not using any of those products.
But whatever gives you more confidence.
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I agree with you 100per cent Archer. I think you can lower your scent circle somewhat, but if a deer comes in down wind of you it's gonna smell you period. But I aint selling scent killer or carbon clothes either.
 
I clean the lint trap out. Turn the dryer on for about 10 minutes with nothing in it beforehand. Might be wasting time, but I figure running it might help pick up small particles that may not have made it to the trap yet.
 
I wash mine and hang them in my hunting shed. they all hang year round i use permethrin and i dont have bugs in that shed either no spider no wasp nothing lol
 
Friend of mine in military special forces all his life said they did extensive testing with all sprays, suits, boots, etc using bloodhounds as testers and he said no diff in any combination and none were effective.
 
bigjohn said:
Friend of mine in military special forces all his life said they did extensive testing with all sprays, suits, boots, etc using bloodhounds as testers and he said no diff in any combination and none were effective.
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No one is saying these products make you totally scent free, which would be required to produce a difference in what a bloodhound can and cannot smell.

Scent REDUCTION simply reduces the volume of scent you give off. And SOME of the products appear to accomplish this.
 
Until we can talk to deer, many questions may never be answered...

IMO, carbon clothing MAY decrease your scent, but if you are upwind of a deer's nose, no amount of carbon or scent eliminating spray will save you.

With that being said, if you have done EVERYTHING just right, you may not bust a deer out of the area if they catch your scent, but instead simply make them edgy and hesitant about coming your way.

Maybe these products resemble "old scent" to a deer's nose. Maybe the lesser amount of scent makes a deer think that you are not still there but came through earlier in the day or yesterday...

I'm sure most of you have been mere feet from a deer's nose, but thanks to a "good" wind, you never got busted. I have worn carbon clothing and did everything right and got busted 100 yards from that same nose, sometimes even further.

I stopped wearing carbon clothing. My reasoning was simple. No one can tell me that if a deer comes in downwind from me, he will not smell me. I can be wearing ten day old clothes and smoking a cigar and if the wind is right, I will not be winded.

I'd rather be comfortable and play the wind the best that I can than be hot or uncomfortable and still get busted when the wind is not right.
 

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