Black walnut for scent control

[colin.704]

I'll bite.

 

[BTaylor]

Bet the only reason he aint selling it is he figured no one would buy a cover scent called nut juice.

 

[Plebe]

Air dry your clothes

 

[Shapeshifter]

I watched this video a few days ago, not sure if will work any better then any other scent control or cover scent already out there. Probably worth a try though since it won't cost anything but your time. I'm big into scent control also but I still always hunt the wind. I don't believe you will ever be able to completely iliminate your scent enough to fool a whitetails nose. IMO.

 

[Plebe]

Black walnuts are anti-microbial

the kernel extraction of black walnuts has been linked to antibacterial properties [12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. The stem bark extraction of English walnut (Juglans regia L.) has been reported to exhibit the antibacterial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [19]

 

[Cajunyankee]

It works but the idea isn’t new. I learned about rubbing the green walnuts on our leather boots as a cover scent back in the late 1980s and it wasn’t a new idea back then. They stink but not as bad a coon pee or fox urine.

 

[Plebe]

It works but the idea isn’t new. I learned about rubbing the green walnuts on our leather boots as a cover scent back in the late 1980s and it wasn’t a new idea back then. They stink but not as bad a coon pee or fox urine.

Indeed, doesn't take much effort to find references to it. Googled "Walnuts as cover scent" and whammy.

Apparently Outdoor Life even published a recipie:

"Hi all, i was wondering if anyone on here makes their own cover scent spray. i am a bit of a tightwad, and dont like having to buy some every fall. i was wondering about using walnuts, etc and boiling them. i read an article in outdoor life that said to mix the water with hydrogen peroxide and then let it sit for a couple days"

Black Walnut cover scent

Anyone ever used Black Walnut oil (found in the green husk) as a cover scent? I have a ground blind I plan to hunt from this season and it resides about 20 yrds. from a huge Black Walnut tree that is now dropping it's husk encased nuts. Cutting into the husk, it exudes a very strong odored...

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Best Cover Scent - Deer Hunting - Deer Hunting | In-Depth Outdoors

Like many archery hunters I use a cover scent that masks my human scent. I put it on my boots before I head to my stand to help cover my trail to...

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Walnuts and walnut trees

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Monkey Balls as a cover scent

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https://forums.bowsite.com/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=374149&forum=4

So on and so forth...

 

[Plebe]

Probably adapted from Black Walnut Tincture...which uses Vodka...and was notably used at the Chernobyl fallout ...so a slight modification of a concept that's surely even older. Swap in water, drink the Vodka, lol.

Don't Compost Those Black Walnut Hulls! Make a Black Walnut Tincture Instead

Make black walnut tincture with the green hulls from black walnuts for its antifungal properties or as an external iodine supplement.

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[neonomad]

Probably adapted from Black Walnut Tincture...which uses Vodka...and was notably used at the Chernobyl fallout ...so a slight modification of a concept that's surely even older. Swap in water, drink the Vodka, lol.

Don't Compost Those Black Walnut Hulls! Make a Black Walnut Tincture Instead

Make black walnut tincture with the green hulls from black walnuts for its antifungal properties or as an external iodine supplement.

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Off topic but my father in law is from Ukraine, served in the soviet military and could probably kill me pretty easy. He had to help build apartments to help evacuate irradiated areas around Chernobyl, but it turns out the apartments were too close so it was all that exposure to who knows what wasted for nothing. Two weeks ago a tooth was bothering him so he pulled it out with a string and sloshed vodka around in his mouth to complete the surgery.