I don’t wear my hunting boots anywhere but the mud I’m hunting in. Besides that, no scent control besides wind, and not walking where I expect deer to travel on their way to die.
learn to go into an area blind and not walk past the set, while avoiding where the deer will walk. This is a game of inches sometimes. Can’t always be avoided. At worst, be able to shoot to where a deer will hit your ground scent. And be drawn when they do.
don’t leave stuff at base of tree. If you can, get set up to climb a hundred or so yards downwind of your set. Walk up to tree ready to climb. Getting dressed at base of tree releases a ton of scent. Ever get that deer that looks at base of your tree, then looks right up at you? He probably smelled the cloud of your stink, and looked that way and put you in his field of view.
learn to go into an area blind and not walk past the set, while avoiding where the deer will walk. This is a game of inches sometimes. Can’t always be avoided. At worst, be able to shoot to where a deer will hit your ground scent. And be drawn when they do.
don’t leave stuff at base of tree. If you can, get set up to climb a hundred or so yards downwind of your set. Walk up to tree ready to climb. Getting dressed at base of tree releases a ton of scent. Ever get that deer that looks at base of your tree, then looks right up at you? He probably smelled the cloud of your stink, and looked that way and put you in his field of view.