Author Topic: Dead Down Wind Scent Elimination Products-Any Experiences?? (Read 637 times)

smoky · « **on:** September 26, 2005, 03:48:15 AM »

These products look interesting to me, but kinda pricey and not many locals carrying them yet. Any experiences with them, particualarly the mouth spray.

Thanks,

Smoky

tscott · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2005, 04:29:29 AM »

You know I admit I get caught up in this stuff, every once and a while. Hope it doesn't happen again. Can't say that any of my 100 or so bucks
was shot because of any attractant, or call. I do try to hunt clean (baking soda). It always comes down to two things (besides patience)...
#1 Be in the woods as much as possible.
#2 Play the wind as best as you can. (not as important as #1, as anything can happen to spooked bucks)!

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2005, 05:03:10 AM »

Anyone who seriously thinks they can fool the nose of a deer with something from a bottle is kidding only themselves.

A deer's nose is so sensitive that they can smell the trail of another deer or a human who passed a day or two before and tell from which direction they came. And you think you're gonna confuse that nose?

A dog's nose is supposedly no more sensitive than a deer's. A drug sniffing dog can smell dope in a sealed plastic bag inside the gas tank of a vehicle. And you think you're gonna fool that nose?

My favorite analogy is this. Have you ever walked into a house on a holiday like Thanksgiving when the woman of the house is cooking a variety of things for lunch. Things like turkey and dressing, pies, cakes, etc? Can your insensitive nose smell ONLY one of those? Can't you detect a wide variety of different scents?

Then how in the world can you possibly believe you can fool the nose of a deer?

If your scent blows to the deer's nose you are made. No if's, no and's and no but's about it. You're made.

jbtazgrabber · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2005, 05:45:30 PM »

gb is right......i have not tried any of those hi dollar products my self.....except the sports wash for clothes.....i do however think lava soap is a clean as you can get to sent free,,,,,,,cheap apple sauve shampoo....im trying percimmon this year...i smoke even on stand,,,but it seams to me a apple gets the smell out.......even in okla <where apples dont grow>i think thats the secret....i had deer so close i need slingshots and spears instead of guns.....i never deer hunt without a apple....try it ,i beleave it works better than anything you can buy.........jb

760 Nut · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2005, 05:16:17 AM »

There is no such product that can totally eliminate your scent. Scent blocker clothes, sprays, soaps, etc. really only help to lower the amount of scent dispersed into the air. And this they do well.
There was a study done on the effect of human scent and how deer react to it. Using all the new scent elimination tools available, it was found that utilizing such products lessens the chances of spooking deer via human scent. The study showed that at 30 yards and downwind, deer did not spook as often as they would have if no steps had been taken to lessen human scent. The study compared it to you or I getting a trace smell of chlorine versus sticking your head into a bucket of chlorine. The study claimed the deer probably smelled the subjects but where only getting a slight scent and so it appeared they were further away than they actually were. Hense, the deer felt no immediate danger, but did no there was a human somewhere in the neighborhood.
(ie. subject was 30 yards away, the deer's nose was telling them subject was 300 yards away)
Everytime you take a breathe your emitting scent, your eyes emit, as well as your ears. So to say a soap or clothes ELIMINATES the chances of a deer winding you is ridiculous.
Long story short, there is no product that eliminates human scent, but they may lessen the stink your sending out to the radars on the end of a deers snout. I would pay attention to wind and equally as important, THERMALS.

That was long winded, I need a beer now. :bye:

rickyp · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2005, 09:45:31 AM »

just a few days ago I showered with some soap from bath and body works called clean cotton or something close in the morning, then went hunting in the afternoon. hunting clothes have been used for about a 3 days with out washing but hung on the line everyevening until the next afternoon. I saw something like 5 deer (I know 4 different deer) this is the most I have seen at one time this year. The deer I saw didn't even know I was in the stand.

what I normally do is wash my clothes in a very little sports wash to get dirt and blood out and once the water level is all the way up I take some arm & hammer baking soda and dissolve it in the water. I found if i just drop it in I will get white sports and wash it normally then line dey them when I can, If it is to cold I use the dryer but I will put a scent wafer in with them to off set the bounce the wife uses.

The one thing I do is run a "empty load" before I put in my stuff. You would be suprised how much left over soap is in the washer.

I use unscented soap in the shower.

doing all this helps is to reduce the strange scents in the woods If we can smell the bounce and tide I know the deer can

beemanbeme · « **Reply #6 on:** October 09, 2005, 05:15:35 PM »

I'm gonna guess that the east coast deer are only too familar with the scent of humans. I've sat, watching TV, and thru the window watched deer munching my wifes petunias maybe 10-15 feet away. And they could see me. I also agree that it is impossible to mask or erase human scent.

I try to be clean and use a unscented soap before going hunting. No aftershave. I keep my hunting clothes in a special footlocker out in the shed with cedar shavings packed around them. Along with my hunting boots. I don't put my hunting boots on until I'm wherever I am going to be hunting--no point in going to all that trouble with the clothes and then walk thru a puddle of grease at the service station or walk acrost a cafe floor that's just been mopped with Lysol.
Does this really make a difference??? I don't really know but it makes me feel better.

Would I pay $50-$100 for some magic, scent-blocking "stuff"?? Or pay some ungodly amount for "scent-blocking" clothes??? Naaaah, that ain't no turnip truck I'm ridin' around in. Just spit on your finger, hold it in the air, and hunt toward the cool side.

rickyp · « **Reply #7 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:00:37 AM »

think about this;
you spend so much time and money buying scent free clothing and stuff. then You take your hunting gun out the night before hunting season and give it a good cleaning and a coat of gun oil. The smell of gun oil and cleaners may do wonders for a hunter but does nothing for deer but let hem know you are close.

tscott · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2005, 03:23:10 AM »

I walked all day yesterday. The west NC muzzleloader in steep mountains.
Humid, my clothes were drenched with sweat. An hour before dark, I sat down on the top of a mountain. I was miserable with the stench of myself.
At dusk a very spooky doe walked right up to me.. My secret? A light breeze was in my favor!!! Now somebody has got to start something about the multi million dollar deer call business, that sounds like lunchtime at MacDonalds, or lambchop!! Doesn't happen often, but I really get a kick out of the calls, and particularly the rattling.....