cloaking/masking Human Scent while hunting

[firefistace]

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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[browningautorifle]

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...

[firefistace]

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.

[Aragorn243]

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.

[Peter Laidler]

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!

[firefistace]

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. wow

[Paul S.]

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!

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.

[browningautorifle]

you did all that.

You're kidding right? There's a whack of us here that did that, that was different though...

[Sentryduty]

The stories really aren't fit, a mix of diesel, burnt coffee, stale cigarette smoke and rancid cottage cheese smell.

[mwells72774]

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