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This and many similar products are designed to sell.
The first thing a deer will catch scent of is your breath.
Whatever "cover scent" you use, deer will still smell you.
Watch the wind and use an elevated stand and don't waste your money on gimmicks.
The first thing a deer will catch scent of is your breath.
Whatever "cover scent" you use, deer will still smell you.
Watch the wind and use an elevated stand and don't waste your money on gimmicks.
SoonerMedic
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I'm with ^ him. Deer are said to be able to distinguish something like 6 or 7 different scents at one time. So your stank mixed with any of those products, along with food, does, other bucks that are all in the area....he can smell all of it in just one sniff. Pretty amazing if you ask me!
I’m not really that big on “hunting the wind” and here’s why.... I smoke in my stand. And while smoking, I can watch a North wind instantly turn to a south wind because of how it swirls in the trees. So unless you’re hunting a field, it’s a crap shoot. I also don’t believe that deer really care that much based off of how many deer come “down wind” of me, to me, while I have a burning cigarette in my hand. This happened last weekend. Had a decent 8 and a doe get within 4 yards of me. I was only about 10 feet in the air. This plays out over and over for me every year on public land that gets quite a bit of pressure.
I’m also in the club that your scent is impossible to hide. So I save my money for processing, new stands, broadheads, etc.
I’m also in the club that your scent is impossible to hide. So I save my money for processing, new stands, broadheads, etc.
SoonerMedic
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I admit that I do use the scent eliminator sprays, simply because they have done SOME research on it's effectiveness and they determined it helped more than 58% of the time if I'm not mistaken. Possibly more? Other than that, I won't spend serious money on the Ozone generators and whatnot...That's way too much money for something that isn't PROVEN to work 100% of the time.
Patocazador
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I bought a "Deer Finder" about 20 years ago. It said the temperature difference between the recently dead deer and the environment was enough for this infra-red gizmo will find your deer if there's no blood trail.
After using it, I realized that bow season was when I was most in danger of losing deer because, with a rifle, I usually neck shoot the deer and they drop. Also, the ambient temperature in my part of Florida is about 88 deg. during bow season. That's not enough difference as it turns out.
The thing was great at find big rocks that held heat after dark.
There was also a deer blood finder spray that was just hydrogen peroxide with a yellow dye. All these gizmos are usually rip offs. All, that is, except the Thermacell. That thing is one of the best products to ever hit the market.
After using it, I realized that bow season was when I was most in danger of losing deer because, with a rifle, I usually neck shoot the deer and they drop. Also, the ambient temperature in my part of Florida is about 88 deg. during bow season. That's not enough difference as it turns out.
The thing was great at find big rocks that held heat after dark.
There was also a deer blood finder spray that was just hydrogen peroxide with a yellow dye. All these gizmos are usually rip offs. All, that is, except the Thermacell. That thing is one of the best products to ever hit the market.
The Thermacell is the best invention for warm weather stand hunting EVER.I bought a "Deer Finder" about 20 years ago. It said the temperature difference between the recently dead deer and the environment was enough for this infra-red gizmo will find your deer if there's no blood trail.
After using it, I realized that bow season was when I was most in danger of losing deer because, with a rifle, I usually neck shoot the deer and they drop. Also, the ambient temperature in my part of Florida is about 88 deg. during bow season. That's not enough difference as it turns out.
The thing was great at find big rocks that held heat after dark.
There was also a deer blood finder spray that was just hydrogen peroxide with a yellow dye. All these gizmos are usually rip offs. All, that is, except the Thermacell. That thing is one of the best products to ever hit the market.
Loyalist Dave
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What I've learned from solely hunting deer from ground blinds...,
If your buddy's wife washes the hunting coat with a modern detergent, the deer don't like that perfume crap, and will react if they are downwind from the coat, even in light rain. So to wash hunting clothes you use plain, unscented lye soap...., if all you can get is a bar of lye soap, then grate it into the washing machine and let it dissolve into the water before you wash the clothes. Remember....nothing with a "Spring fresh scent", and no cologne, no deodorant, etc.
For some reason the smell of wood-smoke on clothes is less offensive to some deer than plain human. I've had smoke smelling outer clothes on more than one occasion cause a buck to turn, stomp, and grunt in my direction when the wind changed, and the wind went from me to him.
I've been told to "smoke" my outer clothes by more than one venerable old deer hunter who say this scent is close to the musk of a mature buck..., but even if it's hogwash, if you must use a "cover" scent, at least wood-smoke is free. I think that deer not only try to know if you're in the area by your scent, but also try to range you with your scent. So I also scrape up the forest floor where I'm standing so no crunchy leaves or dry twigs are under foot, and it also kicks the smell of the forest floor into the air. (Just ask any K9 officer) So I think that if the deer smell forest loam, and wood-smoke, and the human scent that they also smell is fainter than the other two..., I think they may react that the "threat" is farther off than you actually are to them. So they are not nearly so quick to lift tail and bolt.
That's just my theory.
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Let's say you order a burger with no mustard cause you don't like mustard. Before you get it to your mouth, you'll probably smell that mustard, even tho there are the smell of fried burger, bacon, cheese, pickles and onion on it also. None of those other smells cover up the smell of something you dislike. Now, relate that to deer and trying to cover your scent completely. Now, if you are hungry for bacon, what is the first smell do you think you will notice and will draw you to the burger? Relate that to attractant scents. While you may be able to mask your scent a little, you will not completely eliminate it with cover scents. Washing in scent-free, odor eliminating soap, Hanging your clothes outside, will help because they lessen the amount of the scent "cone" you leave around you. Last weekend on my wy to my stand, I walked thru some apples in the backyard to cover my foot scent. When a doe came thru and crossed my trail, you stopped and I thought, crap she scented me. She then proceeded to follow my trail to the bottom rung of my tree stand, licking her upper lip as she walked. I reiazed later the deer were feeding on the last apples in the valley....the ones in the back yard and she reconized the smell of those certain apples and it attracted her to it, even tho I was sitting next to another apple tree that still had apples on the ground below it.Even with ozone makers, cover scent and keeping clean, you still need to play the wind if deer are alarmed. I think deer becoming more urbanized, along with being fed and baited and llowed to walk till they get big, have got more acustomed to human scent and do not fear it like they used to years ago when they stayed deep in the woods and man seldom ventured into their territory.
1911 guy
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"People" smell is what spooks deer, in my opinion. Scented soaps and detergents, aftershave, mouthwash, you name it. And they're right, you can't completely eliminate it.
However, you can mitigate it a little bit.
Make your clothes smell like something else. Loyalist Dave mentioned smoke. I hang my clothes in the barn. Shower the night before with unscented soap. In the morning, rinse your mouth with peroxide, don't use "minty fresh" whatever.
Deer are curious animals. I, too, have had them walk right under my stand while I'm smoking. Seen them peeking at me while cutting firewood. With a chainsaw. Deer have good noses, you can't really hide yourself. But you can tone it down enough to not set off alarm bells in their brains.
However, you can mitigate it a little bit.
Make your clothes smell like something else. Loyalist Dave mentioned smoke. I hang my clothes in the barn. Shower the night before with unscented soap. In the morning, rinse your mouth with peroxide, don't use "minty fresh" whatever.
Deer are curious animals. I, too, have had them walk right under my stand while I'm smoking. Seen them peeking at me while cutting firewood. With a chainsaw. Deer have good noses, you can't really hide yourself. But you can tone it down enough to not set off alarm bells in their brains.
Double Naught Spy
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How do you hide the smell of the MOPP suit???????
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