Can it be tide cold water? Or does it need to be the old school powder original? Im gonna try it for early season
Most of my stuff is wool based so I just use cold water. I just use the liquid original tide sent stuff. The ingredients are the same from what I read into. The frangrence ingredients I spoke of earlier are in the original. They make some other flavors but haven't messed with that.Can it be tide cold water? Or does it need to be the old school powder original? Im gonna try it for early season
I was in North Dakota near Cavalier. A lot of cattle in the area. The local folks I were with all would intentionally step in a cow patty and then go up the tree. It’s a thing for sure.Not to go off on a tangent with this but in farm country, where there is a lot of manure being spread every day…… that’s a great calming scent that deer smell all the time. I used to walk right in cow patties on my way to some stand locations to help cover my ground scent. I still walk in deer pellets if I see piles of them enroute to where I’m setting up. Not many small dairy farms around anymore though unfortunately.
Our family farm has cattle on it and right inside the first gate we all go through is a bale ring that everyone will detour over to it so we can get a fresh batch of cover scent for our walk to the stand, not saying it works perfectly, but it certainly can't hurtI was in North Dakota near Cavalier. A lot of cattle in the area. The local folks I were with all would intentionally step in a cow patty and then go up the tree. It’s a thing for sure.
This is exactly what I do before my buddy comes to pick me up for our hunting outings!The local folks I were with all would intentionally step in a cow patty
I agree with what Tom said - incidental odors like laundry detergent don’t spook deer, human odor does. People use ozone and smoke for odor reduction and cover scent and it works - not 100%, but it does work. Deer smell it, so hey know it’s there and some deer are fine with it, some spook and some are somewhere in between. Other cover scents like apple and vanilla have been used for years. Why not Tide???
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Got my buck slayin' kit right at the Walmart today! Don't think I'm kidding, lol. Can't hurt but seriously....
Why stop at washing your clothes with Tide? Why not throw a couple of Tide pods around the base of the tree? Leave a trail of them like Hansel and Gretel leading directly to your setup.
Watch them eat the Tide pods and come right to you. I guess they wouldn't be the first species to try it...
Everyone is laughing at this pretty hard. What might be missed is that tide laundry detergent contains soda ash / sodium carbonate. This is an attractant for deer. Many people have used soda ash for mineral licks over the years, where legal, of course. Google “washing soda for deer attractant” or “washing soda deer cocaine”. Arm and Hammer sells washing soda without all of the other stuff that’s in the Tide detergent above.
That's exactly what I used to use religiously for cleaning my hunting clothes. Been my go to for years.Everyone is laughing at this pretty hard. What might be missed is that tide laundry detergent contains soda ash / sodium carbonate. This is an attractant for deer. Many people have used soda ash for mineral licks over the years, where legal, of course. Google “washing soda for deer attractant” or “washing soda deer cocaine”. Arm and Hammer sells washing soda without all of the other stuff that’s in the Tide detergent above.
OK, I want to throw another variable into this equation. Monday morning while my buddy and I were hunting he was chewing on some sort of nicotine gum that smelled very much like juicy fruit. I thought he would spook every deer within a mile. About 8:15 we had three does walk to within 5 yards of the blind. They circled us and ended up downwind at about 12 yards. The lead doe walked back towards the blind and was obviously sniffing the air. I don’t chew gum but I may start.