What do you do to over come your scent?

[Diamondrock]

I am wondering what most of you do to cover your scent. I have always just used the Sagebrush; after traipsing through the Sagebrush you pretty much smell like it. In Idaho we used Pine needles to cover scent, rub them between your hands and wipe it on your clothes. Yesterday I bought Scent A-Way and will give it a try this year.

How about you guys?

[05_sprcrw]

I don't use any cover scents, about all I do is use Trophyblend whitetail herd in a couple areas to relax the deer but other then that I just cover all the exposed skin I can and have found that to be more effective. Because skin cells flake off and leave scent everywhere so cover up your skin and hunt the wind is all I do.

[Leo]

Wind, height and time are my best friends for scent control.

[lungbuster123]

Play the wind as best I can and use Wildlife Research Scent Killer.

[Okie101]

When I get out of my pickup,,,the first pile of cow dung I see, I just go and roll in it.... J/K...


Cedar trees are my best friend were I hunt...It's like a ground blind in the air...

And what Leo said....those thing have worked the best for me.

I tried alot of scent cover last year, not saying it doesn't work, but I didn't kill a thing or have anything close to me to kill.

[Mark Land]

Local available cover scents I always utilize, but more important I try to start out as scent free as possible. I wear sweat pants to the woods and change into hunting clothes when I get there, always fresh bathed, and spray down with Super Odor Eliminator on me and all my clothing and gear. Approach the area from downwind and only hunt stands that will get me the best wind option for that day and will get down and move if it changes. With many mature animals you will only get 1 chance so I am much more cautious and careful when hunting a particular animal.

[davidb]

The biggest factor for me on not getting winded is wind direction on the stand.
2nd major factor would be wind direction and the approach to the stand.

Little Things that help but I have had mixed results is scent free showers, and scent free cloths.
I prefer a shower before a hunt but sometimes this isn't possibable, and down South it's still pretty hot in the early fall and the time you walk all your grear in a 1/2 mile or so and jack up a tree 25 foot you will me dripping in sweat.
So that shower you took 1 hour ago may or may not be helping and the cloths washed in sent free soap and hung outside for weeks is soaked in sweat.
I like the confidence I have when setting with a clean dry body and camos that have not been contaminated with any human like odors.
But that confidence will not trump the confidence of having aproached your stand and hunting area on the down wind side and having your nose to wind on where you hope the deer will appear from.
db

[grizzlydown]

I wash my cloths in baking soda, even your towel for the shower, try to have them in tote with acorns, pine cones, leaves etc. this year I am going to try something new...I am going to boil the acorns, pinecones, leaves, sticks and use that water for scent cover for me and the blind, and strain that water to keep the junk out of the squirt bottle!!! hope it works out, I think i will keep the stuff in the fridge, not sure if it has to or not though??



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[tappedandtagged]

Scent control starts with what you eat, so I start there.

4 weeks before season I go through a cleansing diet of high fiber, fruits and flax seed. I do this for one week.
3 weeks before season I start eating an all natural diet (carrots, corn, peas, beans, rice etc). I do this for the entire next three weeks. During this week I also start showering with soap I make myself (from boiled pine needles, a little potting soil, bee's wax and tallow from last year's harvest). I also use carbon for deoderant.
2 weeks before season I move out of my house and start sleeping under the stars. I only wear clothes that have been hung in the sun for at least a day and I also hang my sleeping bag out in the sun every day as well.
1 week before season I take it to the extreme. I stop wearing all clothes whatsoever and only cover myself with animal hides I fashioned from previous years harvest.
During the season I'm pretty much good to go as long as I keep to this regimine. I use racoon urine for cover scent and keep my clothes laying out under a tarp the night before so they smell like fresh earth.

[yotekilla]

I think chlorophyll tablets help. I got a bottle at my local pharmacy for 3$. They give them to nursing home patients that they can't shower every day to cut down on B.O. I take a shower in scent killer before every hunt, and change when I get to my location. Wash my clothes in scent killer soap, and hose myself down in scent killer before I head out. Then play the wind. On days where im short on time I will take a spit bath with scent killer field wipes.
I dont think 3oz of carbon in those expensive suits does anything. Does your dryer get to 600*F to properly reactivate the carbon. I don't think so. Skunk piss works better

[Dsotm223]

Originally Posted by tappedandtagged

Scent control starts with what you eat, so I start there.

4 weeks before season I go through a cleansing diet of high fiber, fruits and flax seed. I do this for one week.
3 weeks before season I start eating an all natural diet (carrots, corn, peas, beans, rice etc). I do this for the entire next three weeks. During this week I also start showering with soap I make myself (from boiled pine needles, a little potting soil, bee's wax and tallow from last year's harvest). I also use carbon for deoderant.
2 weeks before season I move out of my house and start sleeping under the stars. I only wear clothes that have been hung in the sun for at least a day and I also hang my sleeping bag out in the sun every day as well.
1 week before season I take it to the extreme. I stop wearing all clothes whatsoever and only cover myself with animal hides I fashioned from previous years harvest.
During the season I'm pretty much good to go as long as I keep to this regimine. I use racoon urine for cover scent and keep my clothes laying out under a tarp the night before so they smell like fresh earth.

Maybe I'm missing some sarcasm in this, but if not that seems really excessive. I'm all for scent free but jeez. I take a scent free shower and run my clothes through the dryer with some earth scent dryer sheets, that is after scent and uv free washing of course. I put it in a scent free tote then drive out to my spot. I get dressed out there and basically bathe in scent killer, then off to the stand I go. If I dont have the dryer sheets I fill an old sock with leaves, tie it shut and throw it in the dryer with my clothes.

[elkslayer4x5]

Local foilage, cedar or douglas fir, snip a branch, give myself a good rubdown, add some doe urine to the tarsel glands from my last doe, and attach to boots. Try not to touch brush, watch the wind.