I eat lot’s of apples......only because I like them. LOL
Honestly trying to cover your breath is a waste of time in my opinion. If a deer gets downwind you will have much worse human smells to worry about. Only 100% effective way to beat their nose is to stay downwind of where you expect them to come from.
I messed around with all the gimmicks for years and nothing is more effective than playing the wind and understanding thermals. My sightings and close encounters have actually increased since doing away with my scent reduction routine and hunting is so much more enjoyable.
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1st, define "down wind". Our odor disperses in a cone shape with more intense odor in the center of the cone and less intense odor on the fringes.
Distance, wind switching, humidity, and an individual deer's tolerance for human odor are part of the equation of whether we get busted, and how severe that bust may be. Some busts are full blown deer panic under the worst conditions, and some busts are no more than a deer pausing, with other busts being somewhere in between the extremes. I choose to take every precaution that I can.
Some of us don't have access to large properties. We often have only a few productive stands we can hunt. Add to that, tricky winds and very few low impact access routes and odor reduction has to be an important part of our scheme.
Time is also a factor. How long our residual odor remains is partly a product of how intense our odor production is.
And I contend that residual odor is every bit as damaging as the odor we produce while in the presence of deer. When deer encounter our odor hours, days, or weeks after we've hunted the stand, that location will become less productive...stand burn-out.
Reduce every odor for every hunt.
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