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How do you get smells out of hunting clothes

Discussion in 'Whitetail Deer Hunting' started by HardLuckLarry, Aug 19, 2019.

  1. oldnotdead

    oldnotdead Legendary Woodsman

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    Years ago I use to keep my hunting clothes in our goat barn worked GREAT...until...I had a pack of coyotes come in on me and circle me within 10 yrds for a couple, as I walked in in the dark. Scared me so bad I momentarily forgot I had my gun in my hand. When the first crossed in front of me as the second came up from behind I shook the action on my shot gun and they moved off and I ran... the pack then circled the ridges in front and behind my stand calling to each other...No more scents on my clothes. I called our DEC and they said ..ya well you were breakfast....
    baking soda and hunter wash...Being where everyone wood burns I may get out the bee smoker...
     
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    HardLuckLarry Weekend Warrior

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    I’d say even around apple trees it would be best to smell like nothing. My belief on cover scents is simple. You ever spray air freshener after a #2? I bet the bathroom smell went from simply crap to a crap covered in cologne. There was a study where they put a person freshly bathed in no scent soap and wearing rubber boots and clean ozone treated hunting clothes in a plywood box that had a 20 minute ozone bath, the same room had three similar boxes with nothing in them, they then released a scent hound into the room and it found the hunter in less than 30 seconds... if a dog can do that imagine what a deer smells. Play the wind and stay clean and scent free as possible...
     
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    Tide makes my close smell nice and fresh
     
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    wl704 Legendary Woodsman

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    Don't forget the fabric softener
     
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    I never do!
     
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