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Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: E-Town Hunter on January 22, 2019, 01:58:32 PM

Title: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: E-Town Hunter on January 22, 2019, 01:58:32 PM: For those of you who spot and stalk open sagebrush and farm land mulies, do you religiously use cover scents? I have never really bothered with them yet I have a buddy who swears by washing his clothes in them and then keeping them in a garbage bag with a piece of sage brush. Bored here at work today and thought I'd throw out a topic.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: boneaddict on January 22, 2019, 02:12:11 PM: Never
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: boneaddict on January 22, 2019, 02:13:15 PM: ......one of the biggest scams in the hunting industry.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: chester on January 22, 2019, 02:14:39 PM: :bdid:
Use the wind and put that money in your fuel tank for a few extra scouting trips.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: vandeman17 on January 22, 2019, 02:16:41 PM: I lean more towards keeping my clothes in bins with similar branches or foliage from the area I will be hunting. Toss a few pieces of sage in your tote with your clothes for a month or so and you are good to go and its free. As others have said though, playing the wind trumps everything
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: Karl Blanchard on January 22, 2019, 02:21:12 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 22, 2019, 02:13:15 PM
......one of the biggest scams in the hunting industry.
:yeah: Google it. There's endless experiments out there that debunk all forms of scent control. You CANNOT fool their noses. As soon as you move, you will perspire. Your body is a giant stink factory.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: zwickeyman on January 22, 2019, 02:26:30 PM: Like my Pop used to say " you can fool their eyes and the ears but you cant fool their nose "
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: MtnMuley on January 22, 2019, 02:47:16 PM: I've killed 80% of my bucks and bulls smelling like a campfire, fried bacon, and slate beer.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: Eric M on January 22, 2019, 03:14:27 PM: I used to be fanatical about it. Then a friend showed me a myth busters show about it and I quit bothering. The wind is your friend or your enemy. Sometimes I cant believe how far away I'm smelled. At least my wife claims....
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: Jimmy33 on January 23, 2019, 08:56:08 PM: No

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Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: huntnphool on January 23, 2019, 10:14:20 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 22, 2019, 02:12:11 PM
Never

+1, invest the money you plan to spend on scents over your lifetime into "quality" optics, you will be far better off! :twocents:
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: boneaddict on January 24, 2019, 08:00:08 AM: Optics and boots! Forget most of the other crap.

I can honestly credit Huntnphool 100% for convincing me to invest in better optics. I used to make fun of the folks spending the money for them as I ran around with my 40$ bushnells. Then I was out on his boat with him and he let me look through his Swaros. That trip cost me 2 grand. LOL!
Im just thankful I got most of the accidents out of my system before moving onto them, like letting the mule crush them against a tree, leaving them on the back of the truck, etc. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: Karl Blanchard on January 24, 2019, 08:28:33 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 24, 2019, 08:00:08 AM
Optics and boots! Forget most of the other crap.

I can honestly credit Huntnphool 100% for convincing me to invest in better optics. I used to make fun of the folks spending the money for them as I ran around with my 40$ bushnells. Then I was out on his boat with him and he let me look through his Swaros. That trip cost me 2 grand. LOL!
Im just thankful I got most of the accidents out of my system before moving onto them, like letting the mule crush them against a tree, leaving them on the back of the truck, etc. :chuckle:
Bushnell Permafocus? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: boneaddict on January 24, 2019, 08:49:42 AM: No, those things were aweful. I tell you what, bimart in eburg, going to college, my first glass, 50$, felt like I was spending 2K. It would be hard to convince me I didnt have the best ever at the time. Those babies spied alot of game, but seriously, get the best you can afford and the best way to not be wasteful is to spend the extra ONCE and not incrementally climbing the ladder to finally end up with the same pair you should have bought in the first place.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: 300rum on January 24, 2019, 08:56:27 AM: I will step on a cow patty if the opportunity arises. Other than that (its probably superstition more than anything else) the wind is the best cover around.

You millennials look good in the pics though!
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on January 24, 2019, 09:13:59 AM: If the breeze reaches from you to them you are done for that moment. The only benefit is a psychological placebo effect, for those users who still manage the wind religiously and believe they have another edge from the cover scent.

I will agree with one thing Bone alluded to though; 20 year old eyes can see a whole lot more with crappy optics than 50 year old eyes. The older you get the more optics quality matters.
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: huntnphool on January 25, 2019, 01:02:02 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 24, 2019, 08:00:08 AM
Optics and boots! Forget most of the other crap.

I can honestly credit Huntnphool 100% for convincing me to invest in better optics. I used to make fun of the folks spending the money for them as I ran around with my 40$ bushnells. Then I was out on his boat with him and he let me look through his Swaros. That trip cost me 2 grand. LOL!
Im just thankful I got most of the accidents out of my system before moving onto them, like letting the mule crush them against a tree, leaving them on the back of the truck, etc. :chuckle:

That was a great day Bone, still remember it like yesterday. I almost lost more than that, didn't realize you, Jackelope, Pope and Robo were that big, didn't leave much freeboard on my boat! :chuckle:

I think Cohoho lost the most after that though, he got so hooked on Sturgeon that he spent $100k on a boat. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: Skyvalhunter on January 25, 2019, 05:23:36 AM: Those were the good old days!!!
Title: Re: Using cover scents for open country mulies
Post by: boneaddict on January 25, 2019, 07:13:09 AM: :yeah: yes they were! :tup: