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You cant always play the wind. I take scent control way to seriously, I know that. However, I have very high confidence in animals not detecting me, or at least not detecting me enough to be scared off by my scent. I have very carefully walked through the middle of a feeding elk herd (20 plus animals) in a clear cut in the Winston during early archery with numerous animals inside 20 yards and the closest being 5yds(which I have pictures of). All was fine until the battery went dead in my camera and it started beeping. Prior to that, the animals knew I was there, but they did not feel I posed a threat. Many more stories like this with elk, deer, and bear, but this one is the best example I think.In addition to scent control, I think UV control plays a role. I use Sport Wash and UV killer on all of my clothes.I will do whatever I can to up my odds.
Quote from: Cylvertip on October 01, 2017, 12:30:04 PM You cant always play the wind. I take scent control way to seriously, I know that. However, I have very high confidence in animals not detecting me, or at least not detecting me enough to be scared off by my scent. I have very carefully walked through the middle of a feeding elk herd (20 plus animals) in a clear cut in the Winston during early archery with numerous animals inside 20 yards and the closest being 5yds(which I have pictures of). All was fine until the battery went dead in my camera and it started beeping. Prior to that, the animals knew I was there, but they did not feel I posed a threat. Many more stories like this with elk, deer, and bear, but this one is the best example I think.In addition to scent control, I think UV control plays a role. I use Sport Wash and UV killer on all of my clothes.I will do whatever I can to up my odds. We hear the argument that the elimination of scent is not possible, so why bother? But what about reduction of scent? If reducing scent fools the deer's nose into thinking you are not a close threat, then maybe it's worth the effort.
In my experience, I never used to wear any type of scent killer and had a mixed bag of getting busted. Then I started using scent killer and at first it seemed to work at masking my scent for the first few years, before it didn’t. I tried different brands at varying levels of application and it seemed like the more I used, the quicker I got busted. I showered with non scented soap, washed my clothes in non scented detergent(my wife has sensitive skin, so all my clothes are washed with non scented detergent), I applied scent killer from the skin to the last layer. Last year, I got busted time and time again until finally I sat in a slash pile in an active logging area(no logging that day) before I finally connected on a good deer. This year I tried a different approach and washed three pairs of clothes two months before the season and sealed them in a plastic bag with pine bows, cedar bows, dirt, and other vegetation from the area I would be hunting. I didn’t get busted one time this year. No scent killer, just native vegetation. Animals have much stronger sense of smell than we do and they also adapt very well to their environment. In my case, perhaps there is a marker in the scent killer they have picked up and recognize as a human scent. When I first began using it, it may have worked because it was foreign and not recognizable as human scent. I don’t know the right answer, but I will continue this year’s findings until it doesn’t seem to work.
Quote from: Scuffy on December 14, 2017, 04:12:47 PMIn my experience, I never used to wear any type of scent killer and had a mixed bag of getting busted. Then I started using scent killer and at first it seemed to work at masking my scent for the first few years, before it didn’t. I tried different brands at varying levels of application and it seemed like the more I used, the quicker I got busted. I showered with non scented soap, washed my clothes in non scented detergent(my wife has sensitive skin, so all my clothes are washed with non scented detergent), I applied scent killer from the skin to the last layer. Last year, I got busted time and time again until finally I sat in a slash pile in an active logging area(no logging that day) before I finally connected on a good deer. This year I tried a different approach and washed three pairs of clothes two months before the season and sealed them in a plastic bag with pine bows, cedar bows, dirt, and other vegetation from the area I would be hunting. I didn’t get busted one time this year. No scent killer, just native vegetation. Animals have much stronger sense of smell than we do and they also adapt very well to their environment. In my case, perhaps there is a marker in the scent killer they have picked up and recognize as a human scent. When I first began using it, it may have worked because it was foreign and not recognizable as human scent. I don’t know the right answer, but I will continue this year’s findings until it doesn’t seem to work.I agree. Each time I sit down for a stand, I try to break a few limbs to get some scent going. I also will stop every once in a while when I am hiking, break off a branch and rub it on me a bit. My one quandary that I have yet to solve is the sweat factor in early season. I wear a scent free anti antiperspirant but that just worked for the armpits but not lower back, chest etc.