Old Man Hunter
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- Sep 7, 2019
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I don't know if this has been posted here before or not but I have had great experience the last couple of years using smoke from hickory chips in a bee smoker to treat my cloths, skin, stand/saddle and anything I carry into the deer woods to hunt. Since doing this I have had on numerous occasions deer dead down wind of me and not spook. Sometimes they may indicate that they smell something by lifting their head tilting their nose in the air for a better sniff but they don't spook. I've had them walk in my footsteps, walk within inches of the tree I'm in with out spooking and as I said be straight down wind with not spooking. I have quit using sprays and have never had any of the high priced scent covering clothing. I do wash my cloths in scent free soap. The other day when my wife took them out of the dryer she said you cloths still smell like camp fire smoke. The carbon from the smoke impregnates the material and sticks. I do pay attention to the wind direction but where I hunt in hilly terrain the wind can shift multiple times during a hunt so scent control is critically important. This is an old time method of cover scent or scent elimination from before there was the fancy clothing or sprays. The carbon from the smoke is what controls the scent. Basically getting carbon clothing without the cost. I do bath in scent elimination soap before each hunt but my cloths and items are smoked every hunt. If any of you are wanting to go the simple route with something that works I recommend you try this.