Cover scent

[archeryrob]

Can't go wrong with hunting the wind. Plus there is thermals also. Wind might come from the south that day, but if you are on the north side of a south acing hill in the early morning your scent is rolling south until the sun comes up and the wind blows.

I do not believe cover scents work. My daughter used to use them and hunt my buddies. I would go see my buddy and my my dog would smell her and trail her to her tree stand. The cover scent did not fool the dog!. They say dogs can smell so good, they don't smell the cake, they smell all the ingredients in the cake. Deer have even more nose nerve receptors than dogs do. So I doubt you could cover it. You're just adding another thing for them to also smell.

Short of using an Ozone closet/bag to destroy human scent, or washing clothes, I do not think you are covering or removing it. I use an ozone closet and I think if fresh ozone is on your clothes it helps destroy scent coming off of you. But if they get down wind, you could still get busted.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I use an ozone closet and I think if fresh ozone is on your clothes it helps destroy scent coming off of you.

FYI, you do realize the half life of ozone is very short. On average, call is 20 minutes. Increase temperature or air speed over the treated garments and that may be cut down to 7 minutes. So inside the first hour after ozone treatment has stopped, there isn't enough ozone left to do diddly squat.

In other words, your "fresh" ozone is literally gone in minutes. There is no lingering odor control treatment as ozone doesn't linger.

One can somewhat trick a deer's eyes but not their sense of smell or hearing. There are no gadgets for that.

Actually, hunters do it all the time. We play the wind. Sometimes, it is comical when a deer can see you, but can't smell you because the wind is in the wrong direction.

 

[Captcurt]

Can't go wrong with hunting the wind. Plus there is thermals also. Wind might come from the south that day, but if you are on the north side of a south acing hill in the early morning your scent is rolling south until the sun comes up and the wind blows.

Yep. I used the thermals yesterday. I had a camera on a scape that I had doctored with 200 Proof and had deer coming in every day. At daylight I set up on a trail down the hill from the scrape and main trail. Then when the sun peaked over the ridge and hit my east facing ridge, I could feel the thermals kick in. I moved 50yds above the scrape and 30 minutes later a herd of deer slipped in. One small 8pt and the rest were does and bambis. I took out a big doe.

 

[Captcurt]

For those of you who don't use scents, look at this. I doctored an existing scrape with Buck Stop 200 proof and even put some on some limbs. This was in 24 hours. I also had a spike, a 6pt, and several does.

 

[Show Me]

You can tie a rag on an overhanging limb over an ATV trail and some will raise up to smell the doe in heat whatever stuff. I've never seen them go out of their way like on tv.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

For those of you who don't use scents, look at this. I doctored an existing scrape with Buck Stop 200 proof and even put some on some limbs. This was in 24 hours. I also had a spike, a 6pt, and several does.

I would be more impressed if you doctored yourself and took pics of the deer coming to you.

The thing about cover scents is that they are to cover the person. You covered an existing, known, used, scrape. The deer probably would have showed up anyway.

This is why when folk talk about how well X feed or X attractant worked when they placed it where they have been feeding already, you never know if the attractant worked or if the deer were just returning to the place they have been coming to anyway.