Interesting, Sniper4Hire.
As soon as I started following John's scent control routine, I started seeing more deer. They hung around longer and closer.
And I noticed they would sniff right where I walked but not get spooked in anyway. People call that the void. They can see the ground disturbed but can't find the scent.
The thing to understand about scent is that it isn't just any scent that spooks deer. Meat-eaters have proteins in their glands that herbivores/prey recognize. It's keeping those scents in that makes the difference. It's probably why the bee smoker method works for so many.
I agree that nobody is ever 100% scent free. But there are scents other than those proteins that prey don't mind. And there is probably a threshold of those proteins that doesn't scare them... For instance, "I can smell something that eats meat has been here. But either it was a raccoon last night or a coyote two nights ago. Hey, what's this arrow doing in my side?"
As soon as I started following John's scent control routine, I started seeing more deer. They hung around longer and closer.
And I noticed they would sniff right where I walked but not get spooked in anyway. People call that the void. They can see the ground disturbed but can't find the scent.
The thing to understand about scent is that it isn't just any scent that spooks deer. Meat-eaters have proteins in their glands that herbivores/prey recognize. It's keeping those scents in that makes the difference. It's probably why the bee smoker method works for so many.
I agree that nobody is ever 100% scent free. But there are scents other than those proteins that prey don't mind. And there is probably a threshold of those proteins that doesn't scare them... For instance, "I can smell something that eats meat has been here. But either it was a raccoon last night or a coyote two nights ago. Hey, what's this arrow doing in my side?"