Just reading about what some guys do for scent control is raising my anxiety and giving me flashbacks to when I tried to care about that stuff.
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Just reading about what some guys do for scent control is raising my anxiety and giving me flashbacks to when I tried to care about that stuff.
Sounds good to me lolIt's because the humidity allows the scent molecules to more easily diffuse into your sinus membranes and to your olfactory receptors. It's actually been discussed by scientists.
Nothing to get worked up about. I have developed a routine that has become second nature to me just like how you climb the tree or shoot your bow etc. I've got it down to about 25 to 30 minutes of extra time from start to finish and that includes a shower before every hunt.Just reading about what some guys do for scent control is raising my anxiety and giving me flashbacks to when I tried to care about that stuff.
If people understand this point, they should also understand why it’s impossible to have scent elimination or even much scent control while hunting in FloridaIt's because the humidity allows the scent molecules to more easily diffuse into your sinus membranes and to your olfactory receptors. It's actually been discussed by scientists.
Just reading about what some guys do for scent control is raising my anxiety and giving me flashbacks to when I tried to care about that stuff.
90°, 100% humidity, and stagnant swamp air means your best bet in archery season is gym shorts and shooting deer 30 yards out with a crossbow before they hit the 20 yard radius fart cloud that you're emitting.If people understand this point, they should also understand why it’s impossible to have scent elimination or even much scent control while hunting in Florida
YUP!Just reading about what some guys do for scent control is raising my anxiety and giving me flashbacks to when I tried to care about that stuff.
At least you have leaves that fall and temperature drops lol it’s was 84 degrees on New Year’s Day here needless to say every leaf that fell was replaced with a green leaf that same day90°, 100% humidity, and stagnant swamp air means your best bet in archery season is gym shorts and shooting deer 30 yards out with a crossbow before they hit the 20 yard radius fart cloud that you're emitting.
Or hunt them in such thick security cover that they smell you but go, "Well crap...where do you run to when you're already ran to your safe place? Maybe he doesn't see me..."
I'm only halfway joking when I say I hunt dumb deer until the leaves fall and the temperature drops.
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Here’s another story and hopefully it will help hunters that are afraid of hunting one spot more than once because some say “first sit best sit” when it comes to leaving scent behind. Oct. 24th 2018 I was hunting a farm open to the public. This buck had been seen by a lot of hunters and was getting pressured almost everyday. People were spotting him at night and setting up on him the next morning. I never saw him on the hoof until the day I shot him. I went to a bedding area spot I prepped the previous spring. I knew no one had been back there so I decided to hunt it after a cold front came in. I used the same entrance and exit for three days in a row and on the third day I had a very wide six point come down wind of me 30 minutes after I was set up. He came in very cautiously and stood 30 yards away staring in my direction. He stood there motionless for 30 minutes checking the wind and moving his ears around like small radars. I wondered why he was doing this until I figured he was bedded near by and heard me come in. After he felt comfortable not seeing or smelling anything he slowly moved on crossing over my entry and exit that I had used the two previous days. At 530 I heard a deer get up out of his bed 40 yards behind me. I know some of you right now are probably thinking how can you hear a deer get out of his bed. First off the area I was hunting was very thick with ground cover that when he stood up his antlers go caught in the brush above him. At first I though he was rubbing a tree but then could see he was trying to stand up. This buck had a hard time walking due to his left front leg being broke from a previous injury. The joint was the size of a soft ball and he could not bend his leg to walk. He slowly came in directly behind me right to the base of my tree. I was not a saddle hunter at this time so I was trying to prepare myself for a shot but not sure what side on the tree he was going to walk by. He eventually went past my weak side so I had to do a 180 and move facing the tree. While doing this my tree harness rubbed against my jacket which he heard and froze standing on my entry path. Because he didn’t look up I was able to draw my bow and make the shot. He fell in sight and I had such a sense of accomplishment because I was able to get the buck everyone was after. This is my second P&Y buck in PA on public land. If my scent control was not good enough the first buck would have smelled me and ruined the hunt. Also I would not have been able to hunt this spot three days in a row waiting for him to come by.
I've worked alongside k9s for years at work, I fully believe scent control will not win based on all my observations. I've seen the tactics used in the dope world to mask/cover up the goods and it doesn't matter, they find it. However, I do believe I can make them think I'm further away by being strict with my pre hunt protocal. I have to travel 2000 miles for my one week a year hunt so I do the basics but refuse to spend $ on in the tree noise machines. Last night was opening night for coues deer archery, there is no way anyone out there could beat a deers nose in the nasty heat and humidity here in Az, gotta play the wind out here, I did have my scentlok suit on tho, it helped guard the millions of mosquitoes trying to get to me.Talking to our K-9 LEO at office, approx 3 hours after a person has laid tracks is what he was taught is best time for his Malimois to track scent. Not sure how that correlates to a deers nose but ya, stop wasting money on water in a spray bottle haha.
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I know most trappers would agree that those sets that have been worked and have caught a skunk or possum are better than a clean set but supposedly a deer can pick up human scent regardless of what other cover or masking scent is present so I don't see the reasoning behind this theory.So my dog has developed a skin problem and we had to put her on both an antibiotic and an antifungal last week. She's just a plain ole' mutt rescue dog we got from a shelter a couple of years ago. I've had the most horrible time trying to give her the antibiotic pill. I'll take a couple of pieces of pepperoni and wrap it in that and she'll just sniff it and walk away. I take the pill out of the same pepperoni and she eats the pepperoni as long as the pill hasn't started to break down onto the pepperoni. We've tried hot dogs, cheese, cheeto's (that's what the vet said to use) and that darn ole' mutt can smell that pill in that junk. The only way I can give it to her is by either mashing it all up and sprinkling it in her food to completely get it diluted down or just get mean and throw it in her mouth and clamp her jaws shut until she swallows.
Also with trapping coyotes. My first night success usually is dismal especially on the older ones as they just know that there is something contrived going on because they smell it. Once the sets soak for a few days or if I catch a skunk or a possum or something then that set becomes super productive because the set location is drowned with the scents of the other animals. I just make sure to clean the blood and what not off the existing trap as best as possible and remake the set that had the other critters in it. That becomes a much better set than the "Clean" sets I try to make. And I truly know its because on my "fresh" clean new sets with boiled and waxed traps and everything, rubber boots, walking through water and spraying down, those darned coyotes still know I was there. They can smell me. I actually hope for another critter at first as it makes the set that much more attractive afterwards and the human smell is so overwhelmed from the smells of the other critters they let their gaurd down a bit more and work the set.
So I'm not trying to be a naysayer of scent control or anything I'm just trying to concentrate my time and activity on things that will be most productive for me because I agree, if you start getting anxious about all of this stuff it makes hunting a chore instead of fun. Its supposed to be fun guys and gals. I don't own a stitch of scent lock clothing or any kind of dedicated, purposeful scent control or masking machine like an O3 generator but If it gives you confidence in the hunt, I say go for it. I just personally have found that I'd use the time on other things like getting in earlier or via a better access route etc. But again, I temper this by saying I still try to keep my hunting clothes as clean as possible and I certainly try to shower before a hunt but I will never sacrifice the time to hunt for a scent control regiment. In other words, if I think I can get out of work early and hunt an evening or something, but then the thought of , well I' have to go home, get a shower first etc... so I won't have any real time to hunt so I decide I can't do it. That's a bunch of fooey in my book. You're a mobile hunter now with a saddle system so by gosh go play the wind and hunt instead of worrying about cleaning up first.
Actually most of it is i believe. Baking soda and water mixed together.I've worked alongside k9s for years at work, I fully believe scent control will not win based on all my observations. I've seen the tactics used in the dope world to mask/cover up the goods and it doesn't matter, they find it. However, I do believe I can make them think I'm further away by being strict with my pre hunt protocal. I have to travel 2000 miles for my one week a year hunt so I do the basics but refuse to spend $ on in the tree noise machines. Last night was opening night for coues deer archery, there is no way anyone out there could beat a deers nose in the nasty heat and humidity here in Az, gotta play the wind out here, I did have my scentlok suit on tho, it helped guard the millions of mosquitoes trying to get to me.
My point was simply that no matter how clean you try to be., the coyotes, the deer etc. are going to know you were there. I believe the only reason coyotes eventually commit to the sets that have caught other animals first are that they get overwhelmed with all the different scents at the catch circle and either the human scent is so diluted at that point that they don't care or they just can't help themselves. I'm sure the smarter, older coyotes will tend to shy away more from those sets so I like to put a flat set nearby with just a hole or a splash a urine.I know most trappers would agree that those sets that have been worked and have caught a skunk or possum are better than a clean set but supposedly a deer can pick up human scent regardless of what other cover or masking scent is present so I don't see the reasoning behind this theory.
My point was simply that no matter how clean you try to be., the coyotes, the deer etc. are going to know you were there. I believe the only reason coyotes eventually commit to the sets that have caught other animals first are that they get overwhelmed with all the different scents at the catch circle and either the human scent is so diluted at that point that they don't care or they just can't help themselves. I'm sure the smarter, older coyotes will tend to shy away more from those sets so I like to put a flat set nearby with just a hole or a splash a urine.