Clothes After the Hunt

How many uses is recommended for hunting clouds per wash. I hunted this morning and was planning on going out this evening. After the hunt I hung my clothes outside to dry and sprayed them with scent killer. Is this enough or do I need to wash then after every wear? They are just cotton, no scentlock (I know the SL gives 40 hours of use)

 

I personally wash my cottons evertime, then again, I have a long ACE walk to my stand and generally sweat my ACE off on my way back to the truck. I don't normally wear my cloth until I am in the stand. Commando all the way. lol jk.

 

What does ACE Hardware have to do with your clothing?

 

ACE = Ass__ociation. lol

 

The reason I ask is because I want to head out this evening but I wore my clothes already and I'm concerned about scent

 

If you put your clothes in a tote with baking soda the soda will absorb a lot of the scent and they will be pretty frest the next time out.

 

i would just spray it down with the scent killer. it should be fine

 

Well which way is the wind blowing on the stand you want to hunt and where do you expect the deer to come from? I'm not into scent sprays or baking soda or scent killer soap or any of that stuff much theses days but one thing I firmly believe in is pine, I carry some work gloves in my bag and find a small pine branch with a good amount of needles and I break it, bend it, twist it until it really starts stinking of pine and rub it on my clothes a little and then stick it to my treestand somewhere. It's free and quite pungent. Other types of trees work too.

 

All my outer layers I will reuse for sometime and just keep them stored in totes. My underlayers are a hunt to hunt decision. I have a couple of pairs of underlayers incase I do break a sweat, I have another pair I can wear. I try to take my time and not sweat going out or coming in from the stand. This reduces your washings greatly.

I'm going full-fledged on the baking soda this year and I already love the savings and it's affectivness

I don't think you can go wrong with storing any or all your hunting cloths in totes with baking soda. Stinky or clean it will definately help with scent control.

I would not worry about washing everytime out, it could just flat out get ridiculous if your in stand as much as me or some of the other members on here during season. Remember, #1 is play the wind and all will be good.

 

I know, obviously sarcasm is lost in a forum. Need that dang sarcasm font again.

 

Do you just sprinkle the baking soda in the bag or is it another bag to keep the white powder off the cloths?

 

I use the Scottish pronunciation "arse"

 

If I sweat at all they get washed nightly. When it cools off some and I dont sweat Ill go a couple of days (the outer layers, anything directly on my skin gets washed/replaced every hunt)

 

I sprinkle a small amount into the tote and then shake the whole thing up to evenly distribute it throughout the items in the tote. The light powder is on the clothes. Then when you are ready to hunt next time and you take it out of the tote you just shake the clothes powder comes right off. It's a slick system if you ask me.

 

Cool, thanks

I think I'm going to try it.

I've been putting fresh cut pine branches in cloth bags and putting them in my scent bags, which works great and really smells like pine but the moisture in the pine nettles make your cloths damp after a while.

 

The wind will be greatly in my favor. It will be at my face and the deer will be coming from the same direction. I think I could probably get away with it. Its opening day so if there are any other hunters out there I'm sure they'll get winded before me.

 

FYI
DO NOT place any scented items in with carbon material (base layer). The Carbon will absorb that scent and it wont collect any of yours while wearing them.

 

As long as you don't sweat, you will be oaky. After 3 or 4 uses, I recommend washing.

 

Well this morning I sweat soaked everything pretty good and I just doused it in scent killer and hung it to dry outside until the evening. I was planning on going out tomorrow morning also however this evening I managed to sweat again on the 3 mile roundtrip hike in and out of the woods so now everything NEEDS to be washed for my own hygiene, let alone scent control.

 

I've personally found that Scentlock gives you 30 hours of use max.

To be honest man, watching the wind is 100X more important than what type of clothes you wear or how often you do laundry. Even the nastiest stank can't make it's way up wind to a deer. Hang sets on fringe areas not in the middle of expected deer locations when possible and go in when the wind is in your favor.

I have enough clothes to cycle through a whole weekend without washing...but if I was sticking with one set early season it'd be 2-3 hunts per wash. Later in the season I'll decrease the wash frequency since I don't sweat at all really.