Curious on you thought about this “tip”

[Billy74]

What do you think of leaving an old shirt in the woods a month or so before a hunt.  I get the idea but aren’t you as likely to just change movement patterns. 


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[hunter399]

I've thought about leaving a scarecrow in a tree stand ,with hunter orange. Year round.
Never tried it ,so not sure if it will work.
Got a few other mythical tricks, mostly just myths though.

[huntnnw]

Use to leave a shirt in stands on bear baits. One year a bear climbed tree and took shirt and shredded it 

[kodiak06]

After a month of weather there's probably not much scent left since it's aired out. We used sweaty clothing from playing b-ball on specific trails to turn deer in Michigan when I lived there. They had 2 routes to get to one specific spot and that's how we eliminated one of the routes.

[vandeman17]

What I have done in the past which is KIND OF similar yet completely different  is to grab branches from the different types of trees and bushes around my stand and put them in the tote that I was keeping the clothes in that I was going to be wearing.

Side note, I have read numerous studies that no matter how "scent free" your clothes are, its more that the animals smell you. The analogy I always think about is that we smell a cake but a deer smells flour, sugar, eggs, butter etc. 

My main point is regardless of what we try to do to trick their noses, the only way to actually do it is to not let them get your wind

[cjjcb]

We use to hang pairs of old jeans in a few permanent stands growing up. Idea being the pants would hang up their year round getting moved around by the wind. The deer will get used seeing something up there and the movement and not even look up when the jeans were replaced with a hunter.

Many times I hunted a permanent stand without hanging a decoy and been pegged immediately by the 1st skittish doe that walks by no matter how still I sat.

[Oldguy]

I knew a guy who put his hunting clothes in a large garbage bag with an elk hide to "perrume" them for hunting season!

[thom9719]

Most of your smell comes from your breath. Take you windicator, look at how much it moves, even when it's "still." Now think about breathing and the scent involved. It's not your clothes.

Always play the wind.

[Alan K]

Most of your smell comes from your breath. Take you windicator, look at how much it moves, even when it's "still." Now think about breathing and the scent involved. It's not your clothes.

Always play the wind.

I discovered that in college while sitting countless nights in a tree stand. I quit getting busted for no apparent reason (scent) after brushing teeth/mouth washing with baking soda prior to heading in. I had already been meticulous about my clothes and body odor but hadn't considered breath. The confirmation was a doe and two fans coming through the main trail directly downwind with cooling thermals and not catching my scent at all. Was a real lightbulb type moment for me.

[Tinmaniac]

I remember a camo gum,it had carbon in it that turned your mouth black.