Hi guy, i am always open to learn new this and gather up knowledge...i will appreciate your real life experience how to dull/hide or mask human scent while hunting.
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Hi guy, i am always open to learn new this and gather up knowledge...i will appreciate your real life experience how to dull/hide or mask human scent while hunting.
I'm not so sure you can mask it so well, there's some things wild game hate though that can be avoided...such as, body odor/sweat, cigarettes, petroleum products like rifle oils... They also don't mind us being out there, just don't alarm then. I've always been able to move around with relative ease but don't scare them. Camouflage doesn't really work, they may be color blind but they have been there all their lives and things will look out of place to them anyway. I used subdued clothing for bow hunting but gave up on face paint early on. Some places here require 18sq inches of red anyway...a red coat.
I just shower without soap before going out to remove all harsh scents or perfume scents. Clothing can be aired outside and left hanging out to air it completely...I don't smoke anyway...
i met this old pap a few year ago at the hospital, he told me he was a heavy smoker and it help him with his body odor while hunting, he said he never had to worry about it.
I knew guys that used to build fires to keep themselves warm and it never seemed to stop them from getting deer. I've never done anything in particular to mask my scent. It seems rare that they spook from smell. Nearly every case of a spooked deer is because they saw me move before I saw them. Most of my kills have been in the 25-75 yard range so they are right on me. That doesn't mean deer downwind of me aren't just avoiding me altogether. I do tend to not pay that close attention in that direction for that reason.
In a light hearted way, and BAR will bear me out here, if you have lived in the back of a truck or an ARV (a tank-like recovery vehicle) or holed up in the ground with 4 others, unwashed and living like dogs for a week, you just smell like the local wildlife anyways............ Been there and done it!
you did all that. wowQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
It's the scent of laundry and bath soap, etc. that could give us away in Vietnam when we first went bush. There too, we ate different foods and different seasoned foods than the Vietnamese so our sweat smelled different as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
You're kidding right? There's a whack of us here that did that, that was different though...Quote:
Originally Posted by firefistace
The stories really aren't fit, a mix of diesel, burnt coffee, stale cigarette smoke and rancid cottage cheese smell.
We normally make a small fire in a big coffee can and throw in some leaves and cedar greens. Works pretty well. All deer harvested this year have been less than 50 yds
I just had a visual and strong recollection...glad I'm done with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sentryduty
Shower without soap. Leave my hunting clothes hanging outside when possible. I put plain vanilla extract in a small Spray bottle. Spray my shoe bottoms with some. Have shot a lot of deer following my trail. Why ...I think that scent makes them curious but it was passed on to me by my dad. Got a nice Doe tonight with the 03A3.
I've always stored my hunting duds in a big box that contains pine needles and leaves. Keep 'em in the back of the truck until ready to hit the woods. (Swapping clothes as you exit the vehicle CAN be rather chilling, though.)
Dunno what the deer make of it, but I like the smell of pine needles, so....
As noted above, I think the most important thing for stalkers/still hunters is to keep still most of the time! And don't stop hunting until you get back in the vehicle. Can't remember the number of times I've had deer within 50 yards of the truck on the way back from a day of seeing nothing otherwise!
someone said breadth control is important so i made a little research and there's no way you can stop breathing. even if you chew all the leaves and ping you want.
Funny how different animals react to scent, fox and coyote will bolt soon as they come across your trail and sometimes Ive had deer stay downwind long enough to bow shoot them. One thing is for sure any two bits of scent and or movement and your done for sure.
A sport's wash for your clothes wash without soap wear rubber soled boots and when moving in the woods even in the cold open your coat so the heat don't build up. Sweat can give you away and it can also kill you under extreme conditions. Even breaking a sweat walking to your stand will probably make you quite chilly when you final stop and hunker down quiet. Personally I don't worry about it anymore. I live in the boonies and have deer in my yard all the time so they are used to us and our smells.
Other than the occasional wily old buck, I think the primary trigger for deer is sight. If they scent you, they will fool around trying to determine where or what you are rather than just taking off. Stamping, snorting, walking a few steps and then jerking their heads up. They often even know you are there just not what you are until you move. They just know you aren't right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doco overboard