Scent smoker for your clothes

[FOX FIRE]

Never heard of this untill last night, just curious what ya'll take on it is, myself...dont think I would roll the dice on it.

http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthrea ... ke+clothes

 

[gatodoc]

Smell like a human in hickory smoke? Whatever works I guess....

 

[TENN.BOY]

They are very popular up north, I now several guys that use them every time they go in the woods, and they have killed some big bucks in the past. But it is hard to do because you are going against every thing you have ever been taught about staying scent free.

 

[pressfit]

Smoke is not a threat to deer..Indians used to get all smoked up over their campfire before they went on a hunt..worked for them for hundreds of years...

 

[catman529]

I wouldn't worry about smelling like smoke while hunting, but I wouldn't go out of my way to smell like it before getting in the tree. However, some of those posts are half convincing. If people are killing deer directly down wind in multiple instances, maybe the smoke smell peaks the deers' curiosity or something. Who knows, I probably wont ever hunt that way unless I happened to be sitting by a fire before the hunt.

 

[MUP]

I would think, ( I know, a dangerous proposition :grin: ) that deer and other wildlife may actually move away from the "smoke" smell, for fear of fire?

 

[BSK]

Big waste of money. You CANNOT overpower a deer's ability to smell a person by using a more potent smell (smoke). The deer smell the smoke and the person underneath.

 

[TN Larry]

Cover scents remind me of this joke:

An older lady gets on an elevator and accidentally passes gas that would gag a skunk. She knows that someone else will get on the elevator before she gets to the ground floor so she finds some pine scented air freshener in her purse and sprays it in the elevator. Now feeling relieved, pun intended, the door opens and a drunk steps in. The door closes, and he starts sniffing. He looks at the lady, and says "Mam, is it just me, or did someone crap a Christmas tree in here"?



A deer's nose has the ability to distinguish this same thing on a whole other level.

 

[plinker22]

I wonder when the first "Vaping" of clothes will hit the market?

 

[catman529]

Big waste of money. You CANNOT overpower a deer's ability to smell a person by using a more potent smell (smoke). The deer smell the smoke and the person underneath.

this is true, but the numerous people saying they shot bucks directly downwind while using the smoke makes me wonder. maybe they were too curious about the smoke to care about the human underneath it? Or maybe coincidence that all those hunters had their scent blowing directly over the bucks they killed... who knows

 

[BSK]

Big waste of money. You CANNOT overpower a deer's ability to smell a person by using a more potent smell (smoke). The deer smell the smoke and the person underneath.

this is true, but the numerous people saying they shot bucks directly downwind while using the smoke makes me wonder. maybe they were too curious about the smoke to care about the human underneath it? Or maybe coincidence that all those hunters had their scent blowing directly over the bucks they killed... who knows

If those bucks truly were downwind--actually were in the person's scent stream--those bucks would have reacted. Just because air is moving past you in the stand going one direction doesn't mean anything about where that air goes once it's past you. Wind does crazy, crazy things.

 

[FOX FIRE]

Wood smoke is serious strong & could very well mask a lot of the human smell or at least cover the smell of washed & dryed clothes , but its hard to cover up one stink with another, mite end up smelling like a clothes dryer on fire.

when I go camping it dont take long for me to smell like the camp fire just form being around it, I could imagine how far a deer could smell it, if its asmart deer thats been around for a few years it mite can pick out the traces of human in the mix...hard to say.

Question: does the third picture look a little fabricated to ya'll, kind of does to me, you can sse the sunlight reflecting off the kids hair in the fornt top but not on the ground or deer anywhere, maybe I'm just hunt'n boogers.

 

[Boone 58]

 

[backstraps]

If a deer is really "down wind" of you, meaning your scent stream blowing directly to him, he IS going to smell you.

The hunting "industry" makes money from brainwashing hunters into thinking their products make you scent free. The scent away sprays, suits, wafers, ect ect NOTHING will make you scent free.

 

[BSK]

Wood smoke is serious strong & could very well mask a lot of the human smell or at least cover the smell of washed & dryed clothes...

No, it can't. We humans simply can't comprehend how sensitive a deer's nose is. Their sense of smell is approximately 10,000 times more sensitive than ours. When we try to imagine something, we use our own experiences. In comparison to other mammal species, we don't have a sense of smell (or it would be best described as virtually non-functioning). We simply can't comprehend nor imagine what an animal's sense of smell is like.

 

[BSK]

If a deer is really "down wind" of you, meaning your scent stream blowing directly to him, he IS going to smell you.

Correct.

 

[lungpuncher1]

I think the curiousity of the smoke smell overpowers thier fear of our human smell (maybe for just a moment), therefore giving you a few extra moments... hopefully.

 

[in the dog house]

If a deer is really "down wind" of you, meaning your scent stream blowing directly to him, he IS going to smell you.

The hunting "industry" makes money from brainwashing hunters into thinking their products make you scent free. The scent away sprays, suits, wafers, ect ect NOTHING will make you scent free.

100% agree .... bunch of snake oil

 

[BSK]

ANY cover scent is absolute snake oil. "Overpowering" a deer's nose--using a scent that covers human scent--is an absolute biological impossibility.

 

[nodog]

Using smoke as a cover is very old, Native Americans used it. The problem with this approach and unit is the amount of smoke that the body comes in contact with, it isn't healthy. It's not like standing around a camp fire, it's standing in a smoker.

 

[BSK]

Using smoke as a cover is very old, Native Americans used it.

Primitive peoples did a lot of things we now realize were pretty foolish.

 

[TLRanger]

My favorite cover scent is two cycle engine fuel. Just rub it on and hit the woods. Everybody knows that deer always come to a chain saw.

 

[Winchester]

"smoking" yourself and your hunting clothes is really more about inhibiting bacteria growth which is what makes us stink so bad after some time, bacteria growth! Sorta like smoking meat, inhibits bacteria growth, not really a 'cover scent' as such a thing doesn't exist when trying to fool a deers nose. All that said, I wouldn't make myself and my clothes smell like smoke if you paid me.

 

[BSK]

"smoking" yourself and your hunting clothes is really more about inhibiting bacteria growth which is what makes us stink so bad after some time, bacteria growth! Sorta like smoking meat, inhibits bacteria growth...

That actually makes more sense Winchester, as that is how most "scent reducing" sprays work--they inhibit the bacterial growth that produces human "body odor."