What's the deal? Why does it have that strong smell? I'm talking about the plain one, not the earth scented. Has anyone used this enough to know if it works or scares them away? I ordered some of the Dead Downwind stuff on this site but I'm almost afraid to use this Primos stuff till it comes in. lp
I've used it all season, with my BEST seasoon thus far, but still have mixed feelings, Ive had deer under and never know I was there, downwind also, but I've also had them catch a hint of something They didnt like. There are so many contributing factors that play into scent "reduction" that I feel it i impossible to say how "good" a field spray works, there is so much more to it than that.IMO
hard to judge how effective field spray is with so many factors. I use it and have had deer under my platform. Ive only been winded one time this year, which i feel has to be due to me starting to hunt the wind smarter, washing clothes for every hunt, and religious doses of field spray.
Very smart words. With that said, I use DDW. It seems to be the best I have tried yet....as far as I can tell.
I agree The stuff does smell when taking a whiff but one key for sure is let it dry before heading out. Many spray and go and you should be letting it dry completely.
Thanks guys, you are so right about many things contributing but it's hard to use something you don't have confidence in. May have to work out a little test! If I can find some does to mess with. lp
Ok, I finally got to test this stuff. While putting my corn out at a site does were hittin every day I used The Primos Scent Killer to cover my tracks where I was standing to throw out corn. This was about 11 AM Saturday morning 11/29. I hunted the area that evening and four does came out and chowed down. They were walking all around and through the area I sprayed the Primos and never acted like anything bothered them. I really soaked the ground and grass good with the stuff and I'm sure there was some residual scent left on it. The does came in about 5:15PM. It was a little breezy that day so I can't say for sure how it works before it's dried. The does were still there munching corn so I had to wait till after dark to leave. lp
WHat's the closest you've been to a deer in the woods? I have had a deer rub his side on the tree I was in (this was the first deer I had shot) I've seen deer get within 3 ft of my dad in a ground blind, and 5 ft from a smoking uncle but I do not hunt on the ground so not too close for me.
Do fawns count? I was squirrel hunting a few years ago, and one ran right up to me and sniffed my shoe. I was just sitting there at the base of a tree, and she just busted out of the brush in front of me. While she was sniffing my shoe, I moved to stand up and she went crazy. She then proceeded to follow me for the rest of the morning at a distance of about 15-20 yards. I guess maybe her mother was killed. And, of couse, I don't know it was a she, I just call it a she......because she didn't have antlers.
Some friends of the family had a lake house nearby and during a flood one year they were poking around in a boat and a fawn was swimming and having trouble, they pulled up and pulled her in. They played with it for a while and thought about keeping it somehow but then walked it way up into the woods and let it go. Her mother was probably killed too.
Interesting topic. I've had the same questions with Scent Killer Brand. It doesn't necessarily have much of a scent when you first apply it, but after I re-bag it and get it back out for my next hunt a few days or a week later it definitely has a distinctive odor to it. I have tried Scent-away this year and it is a little better. Dead down wind is definitely my next experiment.
I have the same odor problem with HS as you do scent killer brand. When I open my tub, I can easily smell a kind of sweet odor. Next year you can use DDW, and I'll use Jackies Deer lures again. At the end of the season, we'll compare our results.
I don't put out corn piles, I kinda spread it out so they have to look for it like they do acorns. I'm sure their nose helps but the does here are extremely jumpy. If there had been any of my smell there, they would have went to someone else's corn. We had hardly any acorns this year and if you weren't puttin out corn you probly wouldn't see many deer unless you got between someone else's piles. When we have a good acorn crop you don't have to put out corn all the time. I usually use it to keep em comin to my sites, just scatter it out on the ground beneath an oak tree that were producing. That's one thing I don't like about baiting and food plots, it gets to be a contest of who's feeding the best. Of course our deer are very wary when coming in to these sites now because they've seen or smelled so many people putting out bait and hunting. We only have probly 4 bowhunters on 2000 acres, but there are muzzleloader and rifle hunters and neighbors all around us putting out corn and building plots and blinds. It makes our deer really jumpy and cautious but there are some big boys out there so you got to find things that work better than the next guy and have to be very careful about scent. You would think with that many people around they would be used to it but it just trains them very well to recognize dangerous scents and I guess they can tell because of the amount of scent in the air just how close danger is. I think I'm going to start hunting trails between bait sites more and probly completely away from bait sites for bucks. The big boys are probly acclimated to all the sites now and just hitting them at night except when the does are pulling them in during peak breeding. I think I may be able to use these sites as areas to stay away from for older bucks, should've been doing this sooner, sometimes takes me a while to catch on I guess. Sorry bout all the wandering. LOL! lp
I think this scent killer works ok. I was hanging stands and clearing shooting lanes in August this year and i got really sweated up, and frankly funky too, so I took the t-shirt off and hung it on a hook at the cabin for a few hours then it really had a odor. I decided to try the Primos scent killer, I sprayed the shirt down, and was worried about the smell of this stuff when wet, but once it dried I could not smell a thing. However the next day the funk had returned to the shirt. I try to keep clean clothes that have been hanging outside and use as little of this stuff as possible.
