If you spray, what is your method..? what do you use..? I have always sprayed my clothes down before the season, let them dry, then store em. I always spray down before entering the woods and then a few times while in the tree. I have always used some sort of earth masking spray formula. This year I think I will use just the scent elimintator spray (oderless) made by wildlife research...I don't know if there is any need for the masking earth scent...???
About the same. I may use cedar scent this year since there's a lot of it in the woods I'll be hunting. I can't see using earth scent up in a tree, since it dsoesn't smell like dirt up there, but it is a scent that they're used to.
dont know why but im ass backwards... ill wash my clothes in scent free detergent.. then put them in my tote with the earth scent dryer sheets then put them on an spray scent killer all over me...... something wrong with that process lol...
I've always taken the diligent yet not anal route. I wash the clothes nearly every day of hunting, maybe after a weekend. I usually have two sets of clothes for one weekend of hunting. Wash them in either baking soda or scent free detergent. Store them in HUGE ziplocs after pressing the air out of them. Dress when I arrive at the woods I am going to hunt, spray down, and walk in. If I am REALLY getting into it I will also shower with scent free soap before hand, but admittedly don't do this often. I enjoy dressing at the woods either way, as it allows for you to NOT have to wear your hunting clothes around all day everywhere you go. I don't do too much with it really. Just the basics of each. I realize that no matter what I try I will always smell to a deer, I just try to do the bare minimum which I feel will narrow the gap the most for the effort put in.
Actually this is what I have always done in the past...wash them, dry em,spray em with earth masking, let em dry then store em in the tote with earth dryer sheets.
I try to always wear scent-lok or scent blocker, but I do actually have regular garments for hunting. Rule #1 - I never touch my gear with my hands unless I first wash them, or I'm wear plastic gloves. Everything that is not scent blocker: I have a seperate washer and dryer(my old units) for hunting garments. These units stay sprayed down with scent killer and some fresh baking soda is kept inside, while not in use. Garments washed in scent detergent, with baking soda and cover scent. Dried in dryer with cover scent wafer or cover scent dryer sheet. I transport all garments in Tinks carbon bags, be it to my barn, shed or the field. I store all garments in rubbermaid containers that have been sprayed down and washed out. I throw in a cover scent wafer, pines or anything with a strong odor that is indigeonous to my hunting locations. All garments are washed after each hunt. For scent-lok/blocker garments: I was in baking soda and scent free detergent. Transport in Tink carbon bags and store in a scent-lok closet that I purchased(more just for organization and to keep odors out). I keep fresh baking soda inside the closest and thats it. Garments recharged after each hunt. I get dressed at the farm. Spray down with some type of scent spray and walk in. Sometimes, I wear only base layers to the tree and put on top layer after Im in my stand. This entire routine is a real pain in the butt. However, its part of keeping human and foreign odors out of the woods.
Funny, but true. I read that breath odor is one of the strongest odors when speaking in regards to hunting. I try my best to cover breath. I brush my teeth, use DDW beath spray, chew the gum and try to hide my mouth behind a scent-blocker face mask as much as possible. You'll never eliminate odor. You can only reduce it.
This sounds exactly like what I do. I get my large ziplock bags in the grocery section at Wal Mart. I have become a fan of the Dead Down wind mouth spray.
I wash everything in scent-free detergent first. Then I store it in totes with scent wafers in there. When I'm heading to the woods I wear as little as possible, and then spray down every layer as I put it on and then I spray down REALLY heavily on my outside layers (rubbing it into my hands, face, forearms, neck) and ALL over my boots til they're dripping. When I come out of the woods I take everything off, and if I'm going to hunt again that day or the next morning then I hang everything outside in a tree and it stays there all day...then everything gets sprayed down again as it did earlier in the day. I also spray down in stand as soon as I get there and every couple hours...sometimes I spray my scent killer to check wind if I didn't bring anything else! lol
How did our forefathers ever kill deer years ago?????? Interesting thought isnt it? I usually wash my clothes prior to the season and dry them with a earth scent dryer sheet and then store sheet and clothes in HS scent bags...I also wash if I ever get sweaty and at random times throughout the season too. At all costs I shower with scent killer soap and use that deoderant and brush my teeth with baking soda peroxide mixture. I dress at my hunting spot and spray down everything I take in the woods with me and carry a little bottle out in case I sweat a little. Put it this way! I have yet to this day been winded yet when on stand....I've had deer downwind of me for 10+ minutes B4, so I feel my system is proven! Great topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always kinda wondered the same thing in back of my mind.
I don't think animals were near as educated as they were then either. Top that with the population of animals (then, compared to now), and you have a lot greater ratio of animal:hunter.:D
Pretty standard. I wash with scent free detergent, dry with scent free drier sheets. Transport to large ziplock bags. I dress from base layers up in the field, and spray down each layer as I go. Only thing different I will do this year is wash more regularly. I use scent free body soap, deodorant, and may try chewing gum as well this year. Why not?
Wash clothes. Place them in a plastic tub. Remove clothes in the field. Get dressed. Spray down. KILL. I almost forgot...GO TRIBE! Beat UVA! William and Mary 26 UVA 14---YEAHAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHHHHHHH!
I have a lot of different sets of clothing these days. So I seperate out my elk hunting clothing, whitetail hunting clothing. Wash clothing in Baking Soda mixed with Scent Killer/NO UV wash. Hang Dry outside as long as its not raining out. After air drying, spray everything down, I really wet them down with Scent Killer spray. Air dry them again. Once Air dried, I put them in a tote. Anytime I handle my clothing I wear surgical gloves or at least wash and spray my hands down good with scent killer. In the tote they go, until I dress outside to hunt. Away from any garage or car odors. I spray down right after a shower and towel drying. I go outside, dress, spray down again. Douse the boots with Scent Killer and dump Scent killer powder or baking soda in the boots/socks. Go to stand, Spray down on the way if need be, which is often the case in hiking up the mountains. Spray down again in stand if need be. All this to say I use a lot of Scent Killer but its cheap to buy by the gallon. Sportsmans guide has a great deal on it. I dont spray down my scent lok liners. But everything else.
