Getting the burlap smell out

[DLH]

:-D    Any one know how to get rid of the burlap smell from a GILLIE suit?  I love my suit but the burlap smell is not natural.  I'm afraid that YOTES ,and Deer my smell it.
        I have hung the G suit in my hunting shed all summer, and I have tried Earth sent spray, the smell is still there.

         Please help      :-D

[hillbill]

hey take the gillie suit and throw it on top of a live angry skunk. i promise it wont smell like burlap anymore! lol

[Graybeard]

I use burlap camo on a lot of my treestands, the permanent kind. After a month or so of being on the stand out in the weather most of the smell is gone. Not all. Most.

If you have a place to just hang it out in a tree for awhile that's the best way I've found.

GB

[SAWgunner]

Here is something else the Army has taught me about ghillie suits.  Take some foilage from around where you will be hunting and put in a trash bag with your ghillie suit.  Never bring your ghillie suit in the house for any length of time, and always add natural foilage to the tree tux when you get to where you are hunting.

Good Luck,

SAW

[Dalton Masterson]

I have taken a small cedar branch, put it in a pillow case, and threw it in the dryer on low heat with some of my clothes. Made a nice strong cedar smell. Then I left it outside for a day, and it seemed to work fine after that. Works well if you have to hunt windbreaks and such. DM

[Thomas Krupinski]

When I bowhunt I wear a scent-vent, it secures to anything cloth or nylon straps with a safety pin type of retainer.  It screws open and closed to vary the amount of scent it omits.  I use skunk, mule deer and elk depending upon what the quary is.  

The skunk oil provides a good mask and I can get javelina called in pretty close, after a while you don't personally notice the skunk.  So far, close but no cigar this year, poor shooting with my recurve at 3 pigs yesterday and called in a 4th, but he was too wary.  

They cost about $5 and have a circular felt button inside that is replaceable with just about any type of cloth.

[C.J]

i use a home made guilli suit for time to time as well and that smell is really hard to get rid of a couple things iv herd but havent tried yet are to dig a hole and burry the suit for a couple days or you can try leaving it in a barn for awile that worked well for a buddy of mine one last thing you could try is to put it on and roll around in mud,leaves,dirt,water,etc.. just get it real messy that should also give it some natural colour as well