• The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
  • We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules

Smoking clothes

I just wear campfire smell proudly

Me too lol. I love the smell so I don't mind it at all! I actually smoked up real heavy right before I killed my buck Saturday. The wind was perfect for the spot so I don't think it had any bearing on my success for that hunt.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
I was just curious cause there would be times you want to camp or something outside of hunting season and not want your bag smelling like a camp fire.
 
Only time I ran into a blackbear in the woods was while camping. We didn't have any food or cosmetics, either. Just a campfire! Must have thought there'd be s'mores.
 
I too read of it years ago on the Ohio sportsman forum. I got a bee smoker, lighter fluid, synthetic pillow stuffing fluff and three bottles of imitation vanilla extract.

I fluffed up the pillow stuffing and put just enough in the bee smoker can to fill it up loosely. To be a wick. Next I dumped in all the vanilla...then I squirted in enough lighter fluid to fully saturate my pillar stuffin. I lit it all upand smoked my body my clothes all my gear and my boots. Hold yer breath cause it will make you cough and hack sum'thin fierce.

I have mixed feelings about the results.
I didnt have the heart to shoot the deer that curled up in my lap...but I was happy to shoot those suckers that tried to mate with me.

I found it all confusing and I was weirded out so i gave away my smoker.

Now for the serious part:
I used it on several deer hunts and have no clue if it helped or not. But the only place I had to hunt was lousy!

But I have smoked me and my gear before making MANY stands coyote hunting and it seemed like the 'yotes came in with more confidence and less caution.
 
I was just curious cause there would be times you want to camp or something outside of hunting season and not want your bag smelling like a camp fire.

My wife can't stand the smell, but I'd smell like campfire everyday if I could.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Couple years ago, fully smoked clothes and gear. Buck dogging a doe. Upwind of me, no problem. She cut to my scent stream and immediately stopped (at the peril of being mated too soon by mister big 8), sniffed, stomped her foot, head bobbed and started to move away from me and my scent stream. Big 8 just slinked away quietly.

I believe it does not work for mature deer. That said, it does a great job keeping body odor funk off of clothes for a good time. I find that with smoked underclothes and pants and shirt, I can get them all sweaty from a hunt, let them dry out and I can use them again (still smelling like smoke).. And do this multiple times. Without smoke, it is a one wear and have to wash again deal.

If I have time, I'll lightly smoke under and first layer clothes, for the express purpose of keeping my funk at bay. It has nothing to do with deer scent control though.

Just my 0.02
 
For you Bee smoker users...have you used wood Pellets? I'm thinking they will light easily, burn more evenly, require less fuel and go out faster.

I'm in the camp that thinks it mainly keeps your clothes from stinking. Where I hunt, it's not mature Bucks...lots of does and swirling wind. I hunt with a recurve and tend to stay down around 15' (foot height). I might try a little higher this year
 
I have been smoking my clothes for 2 years and have harvested my 2 biggest mature bucks. one came down wind dogging a doe, one came in on a day the wind was swirling and the milkweed was going everywhere. cannot say the smoke worked or not, but I have not seen anything yet to tell me to stop using it. also, I often smell smoke in my stand from local residents heating their houses, so I think that helps.
 
For you Bee smoker users...have you used wood Pellets? I'm thinking they will light easily, burn more evenly, require less fuel and go out faster.

I'm in the camp that thinks it mainly keeps your clothes from stinking. Where I hunt, it's not mature Bucks...lots of does and swirling wind. I hunt with a recurve and tend to stay down around 15' (foot height). I might try a little higher this year

I just use wood chips that you can buy at Walmart for a smoker. I light them with a torch and they light quick and go out fast after I'm done using it.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
I use the bagged hickory chips as well, but have thought about using pellets. Let us know how it works
 
Me and my two hunting partners first season to "smoke down" was during the '73 season (yes, I'm really old and have been doing this stuff for a long time). Another hunting friend had read an article about a trapper that always smoked himself down while running his traps. We thought it would be worth a try.

Now, you have to realize that this was before any comercial scent control products were available. Our normal precautions was to wash with baking soda and then powder down with it afterwards, and wear a clean set of clothes for each hunt that had been washed with baking soda and hung outside to dry.

We made a commitment to "smoke down" for each and every hunt we made that season. During the early bow only season, our combined efforts resulted in 19 deer (recurve bow kills). We never noticed that our smoke scent spooked any of the deer that we saw.

I continued doing this for several years with the same degree of success . later on, commercial products started coming out and I gradually moved on from the smoke. But, I'm really thinking about going back to it this coming season. Just my two cents worth on the subject.
 
Me and my two hunting partners first season to "smoke down" was during the '73 season (yes, I'm really old and have been doing this stuff for a long time). Another hunting friend had read an article about a trapper that always smoked himself down while running his traps. We thought it would be worth a try.

Now, you have to realize that this was before any comercial scent control products were available. Our normal precautions was to wash with baking soda and then powder down with it afterwards, and wear a clean set of clothes for each hunt that had been washed with baking soda and hung outside to dry.

We made a commitment to "smoke down" for each and every hunt we made that season. During the early bow only season, our combined efforts resulted in 19 deer (recurve bow kills). We never noticed that our smoke scent spooked any of the deer that we saw.

I continued doing this for several years with the same degree of success . later on, commercial products started coming out and I gradually moved on from the smoke. But, I'm really thinking about going back to it this coming season. Just my two cents worth on the subject.

Awesome stuff! I've been doing it a few years and have had better luck with the smoke than I have sprays, etc. it's also way way cheaper! lol. I'll be smoking my clothes again this year.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Awesome stuff! I've been doing it a few years and have had better luck with the smoke than I have sprays, etc. it's also way way cheaper! lol. I'll be smoking my clothes again this year.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, I like cheaper. Thick, heavy, leaf smoke is a really strong natural odor that the deer don't seem to pay any attention too. But, I believe once it has a bad experience, like actually seeing a hunter, it can associate that odor with human danger and avoid it at all cost.
 
I love the smell of hardwood smoke. I may try it with some smoking chips I have.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
I guess most will prefer the Hefner this year!
2d7e7577ae7f4067ca2d0e22a9ff528f.png



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Back
Top