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Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« on: August 24, 2015, 07:59:25 PM »
I am going to be archery hunting blacktail deer for the first time this year. I have hunted them with rifle for many years, but never worried about how I smell to them, as I generally shot them from 100+ yards away.

What cover scent do you recommend? One that masks my smell or one that makes me smell like some other animal, like a coon or another deer or ?


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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2015, 08:24:01 PM »
Rub yourself with Fir or Cedar bows.




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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2015, 08:34:29 PM »
I use the primos earth scent spray. Both archery blacktail bucks were taken under 20 yards. Both elk 30 yards. Even with the wind swirling stuff works good for me.
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2015, 03:35:30 AM »
Store your clothing in bags with leaves and branches from the area you hunt and use scent free deodorant.

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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2015, 05:43:42 AM »
IMO it's pretty hard to find a better cover scent than skunk in any situation
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2015, 01:16:28 PM »
Kudos to sales of scents, soaps, and covers, but if you're upwind and breathing, they're going to smell you, IMO. 

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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2015, 01:20:22 PM »
Use the wind.

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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2015, 01:23:48 PM »
rain...or if you can get some essential oils of local plants-some of the farmers distill out fir/spruce/pine.

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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2015, 02:04:26 PM »
The best scent is 'no' scent. Start with that. It can be done well if you work at it.
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2015, 02:07:33 PM »
Hydro fluid, two stroke gas and diesel!
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2015, 02:28:31 PM »
Raining cats and frogs and windy! Those are always my best blacktail days.
Never really thought about it much thirty years ago, didnt own any expensive gear with too many vowels in the name.
Hard to believe we harvested animals in work clothes! Mountain walk might be on to something with the 2 stroke oil.
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2015, 02:31:29 PM »
I always smell like mix.
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2015, 02:57:35 PM »
I think the cover scent industry is 100% BS. Total, unadulterated BS.

Clean yourself, and play the wind.

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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2015, 03:05:45 PM »
But in all seriousness,  I run a saw 4-5days a week, and am often in the woods working,  and I wear hickory shirts. For some reason,when I do a lot of hiking and hunting in my home country, animals don't flip out so bad. 

  On another track, it seems like the area next to my place the does and smaller bucks are familiar with me, I guess you could call it. I wear a felt slouch hat. If I go on my near daily walks without it, the deer are much less tolerant of me.
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Re: Best Cover Scent for Blacktail
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2015, 04:59:29 PM »
Burnt wood... Nevermind none of that around washington!
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