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Switching off Red meat

Swampfox said:
After doing the chlorophyll pills last year as well as scent loc and still got busted I have decided I’m giving up on scent control. I gave it a solid effort but it’s just not for me. Having to be super alert to everything I come in contact with and not to mention the amount of money I have spent on trying to be scent free took the joy out of hunting for me. I plan to use my time to play the wind better this year.

I personally feel chlorophyll pills are a scam. I’m not an overly smelly person but after working up a good sweat I can still smell it. This is three weeks of taking the pills daily. If you combo it with a better diet it might work better, however I’ll openly admit I’m not that devoted.
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Honestly, Im with you. I just do the basics ie......shower and clean clothes.Never tried the pills. I agree with DaveT, if the scent control regiment helps you kill bucks then do it.

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Confidence kills. I lost all confidence in scent control when I farted on the stand and started gagging from the smell.

Find what works best for you and use it. Personally, it would be a lot easier to give up my girlfriend of 3 years than it would be to give up a nice juicy succulent steak cooked rare over a hot fire.

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I thought about giving up meat a couple weeks before season once, as a motivation to hunt hard and kill my next meat meal. That lasted a day.

As for scent, I will just play the wind.
Good luck with your fast, and season!
 
I would say if you are trying to cut down on scent spicy foods are out. My wife has stopped cooking with salt. I have followed suit for my cooking as well. It takes a lot of seasoning to have flavors without salt. I can smell the seasoning while I’m showering. While most of those are vegetable based and shouldn’t bother deer I think they will. I picked up a 55 gallon drum years ago that originally contained chili peppers. I stored corn in the drum only after many rinses attempting to get the pepper smell out. It took the deer a long time to start eating the corn stored in it. Once they did it wasn’t a problem but they definitely didn’t like the odd smell.
 
I think scent control sounds awesome on paper, but is not worth the time and effort. If I could choose to focus my energy on being anal about a scent control regimen vs spending more time/money on acquiring access to better property and scouting it thoroughly, I'd do the latter.

There's a host of things you could do to up your odds more than worrying about something that you have no objective way to analyse. Scout. Preset more trees. Scout. Hunt more often. Scout. Hunt longer periods. Scout. Make weekend trips to better quality public land. Scout. Get in shape. Scout. Read quality whitetail biology books. Scout. Learn to identify local Flora. Scout. Practice shooting in field conditions. Scout. Eliminate setup and stand noise. Scout.

I think 99% of scent control stuff is snake oil and talismans. Sure, placebos and confidence boosters have their place, but would you recommend people apply that chain of thought to other areas of their life?

A dog that eats Alpo vs a dog that eats whole foods prepared by a live-in canine chef may smell different, but they both smell like dogs.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I think scent control sounds awesome on paper, but is not worth the time and effort. If I could choose to focus my energy on being anal about a scent control regimen vs spending more time/money on acquiring access to better property and scouting it thoroughly, I'd do the latter.

There's a host of things you could do to up your odds more than worrying about something that you have no objective way to analyse. Scout. Preset more trees. Scout. Hunt more often. Scout. Hunt longer periods. Scout. Make weekend trips to better quality public land. Scout. Get in shape. Scout. Read quality whitetail biology books. Scout. Learn to identify local Flora. Scout. Practice shooting in field conditions. Scout. Eliminate setup and stand noise. Scout.

I think 99% of scent control stuff is snake oil and talismans. Sure, placebos and confidence boosters have their place, but would you recommend people apply that chain of thought to other areas of their life?

A dog that eats Alpo vs a dog that eats whole foods prepared by a live-in canine chef may smell different, but they both smell like dogs.
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There farts certainly don't - just sayin

It gets 90+ down here for most of season - scent control is not going to happen with those temps.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I think scent control sounds awesome on paper, but is not worth the time and effort. If I could choose to focus my energy on being anal about a scent control regimen vs spending more time/money on acquiring access to better property and scouting it thoroughly, I'd do the latter.

There's a host of things you could do to up your odds more than worrying about something that you have no objective way to analyse. Scout. Preset more trees. Scout. Hunt more often. Scout. Hunt longer periods. Scout. Make weekend trips to better quality public land. Scout. Get in shape. Scout. Read quality whitetail biology books. Scout. Learn to identify local Flora. Scout. Practice shooting in field conditions. Scout. Eliminate setup and stand noise. Scout.

I think 99% of scent control stuff is snake oil and talismans. Sure, placebos and confidence boosters have their place, but would you recommend people apply that chain of thought to other areas of their life?

A dog that eats Alpo vs a dog that eats whole foods prepared by a live-in canine chef may smell different, but they both smell like dogs.
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I agree with this 100%. Concentrate on the above and actually pay attention to wind direction, think about slopes and where the sun is hitting. I've been 16ft up and had deer eating the buds of the bottom branches in the tree I was sitting in...my camo is in the basement next to my washer, dryer, furnace, deacon, dead mice, rem oil, pbr cans, woodford, cans of paint... I usually get made for doing something stupid and making noise, then they look, cant figure out what I am, and sniff. They wouldn't have gotten to step 2 if I wasn't an idiot. But just me $.02.
 
I honestly took s shot at this. I tried really hard. The opener is this weekend for us so I thought “I can make it a week”. I made it two days and now I’m eating venison chops...
 
I think Joe is on the right track with the chili. I know from years of personal experience that after I eat chili and it's had a chance to work on me, I create my own kind of "cover scent". I've been told many times that I don't smell human so it must work....;)
 
You’re a bigger man than I am... I won’t give up red meat for anything short of a severe allergy...


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bigjoe said:
Well the wife and family are hating me today. I did a meatless chili yesterday. Lots of beans lol
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vabwhntr said:
Wouldnt that just be bean soup?? Please dont call that chili. That would be blasphemy! :tearsofjoy:
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Being from Texas as I am, I gotta correct y’all
... it wouldn’t have been chili even if it had meat in it. Chili doesn’t have beans, stew does. It’s a sin down here to get that wrong.


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IkemanTX said:
Being from Texas as I am, I gotta correct y’all
... it wouldn’t have been chili even if it had meat in it. Chili doesn’t have beans, stew does. It’s a sin down here to get that wrong.


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What you talking about Willis?? Stew doesn’t have beans. Stew is roast with potatoes onion carrots celery and soup broth
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