Anyone have any ideas on how to cut cost this year when buying supplies or using supplies....deordorant shampos scent killer buck lure stuff like that i would like to hear if anyone has any good ideas
Im going to use some of my left over stuff from last year, I usually buy all new but with gas at 3.80 I need to save somewhere!! Good luck!
You can also examine your life for places you can cut OUTSIDE hunting... e.g., daily trips to Starbucks, beer, cigarettes, sodas, etc.
Last season I spent a ton of money on things like lures and scents. This season the only thing I am using is the normal scent free soaps, detergents and scent away spray. One reason besides cost is that I don't know enough about how to use the scents correctly and before I ruin the woods again with the doe pee and dominate buck urrine and other lures like C'mere deer I need to focus on my scent control and using the wind. That in turn will cut my cost. Thats just what I am doing to cut cost.
This Is just my opinion but I think buying scent control stuff Is a waste of money. You could start there.
LOL Steve... I'm literally laughing as I type this. Good stuff. I could tell you stories about scent control... I absolutely KNOW it's a waste of time -- at least to the point where advertorial claims would suggest you can "beat" a whitetail's nose. I'll wash my clothes in baking soda, but that's about it.
i just made some scent killer i got a recipe and i hope that will work and if it does i will save a lot of money and not be afford to use it.
no smokes. Greg is talking crazy !!! I can think of ways to save money without affecting my bad habits. :p The wife did say no new head mounts are in the cards this year. From what I am seeing scouting... saving that $500 should be real easy. I've got everything I need to hunt so no money spent there. Just gas for me this year and I don't have very far to go. It should be a fairly cheap year for me... hunting-wise. Tim
Just use Baking Soda. It's cheap and effective. Deer lure? The deer have to be somewhere. Go find them, set-up on their travel routes and KILL! I'm starting to sound like Brett. LOL.
Yes! Use baking soda for your clothes. Get scent free Dove soap for your body wash throughout the deer season. End of story.
Nothing mainly. Or I get nostalgic and rip off some moss or something off a downed tree/root and rub it all over the vital areas (hat, crotch, underarms). I used to do that as my originial "field spray" method.
I use scent free Dove soap and scent free purex detergent. As far as deer scents, waste of money and probably screwing up hunts in my opinion. Honestly I don't think scent free detergents and soap help that much but I do use them anyway. If they smell you a little or a lot they smell you either way. You can't beat a deers nose so save your coin.
I actually do buy a few bottles of Scent Killer or the equivalent every few years... because it's a LOT less expensive than the actual laundry detergent. I still don't think it does THAT much good really though. I've relayed the story here before, but for the benefit of all the newbies these days, here it is again... For several years, I had a good friend come in and stay a week or two with me to hunt with me during the first part of November (Matt / PA for those that remember). We used to both be zealous about scent control... Washed all our clothes in scent-free laundry detergent, dried the towels we bathed with separately only in the same laundry detergent.... wore our boots ONLY in the field and had slip-ons to drive to and from the woods in... that sort of thing. Matt even had a full complement of Scentblocker duds from head to toe he was wearing at the time; I, of course, was in my Predator stuff but still went to all the same extremes... shower EVERY time before we went out... the WHOLE nine yards. So this one trip a few years back, Matt climbs up on the other side of a slough which is about 75 yards across... he's 20 yards off the water's edge on the other side, and I'm pretty much diagonally set up on THIS side of the slew, about 50 yards off the water's edge. I was almost straight downwind, even though sort of diagonally across from him, if that makes sense... all total probably about a little less than 150 yards away, but we were hunting two distinctly different travel corridors. Around mid-morning, I had a nice but small 8-pointer saunter down my side of the slough... I didn't even pick up my bow, and I'm watching him intently as he just lackidaisically "crunch-crunch-crunched" his way towards me about 30 yards out in front of my stand -- that is, UNTIL he hit the air current blowing softly from Matt's stand. BAM!! He locked up and immediately stared toward his direction. He didn't move a muscle for about 20 seconds, and then he started walking off again -- except this time YOU COULDN'T HEAR HIM!!! Seriously... what WAS "crunch, crunch, crunch" was now SOUNDLESS... Crispy, brittle November carpet of leaves, and he moved off so silently I couldn't hear him take a step at 30 yards. It was one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in the woods, and it taught me a lot about scent control.
