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Tide for cover sent

Can it be tide cold water? Or does it need to be the old school powder original? Im gonna try it for early season
 
MattMan81 said:
Can it be tide cold water? Or does it need to be the old school powder original? Im gonna try it for early season
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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.

Maybe it's just calming to them. I know they know we're there no matter what. I'm now more curious to the myth it keeps mature, seasoned deer away & you'll never see em.
 
woodsdog2 said:
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.
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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.
 
Zero One Actual said:
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.
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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 hurt

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drew13 said:
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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ANY odor that is foreign has the potential to spook deer, just like any sound they are not accustomed to often spooks them.
 
DB4x4 said:
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. ;)
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Watch them eat the Tide pods and come right to you. I guess they wouldn't be the first species to try it... :astonished:
 
wyetterp said:
Not this......
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But just this....
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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.
 
Maverick1 said:
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.
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That's exactly what I used to use religiously for cleaning my hunting clothes. Been my go to for years.
 
Scientists have determined that deer can smell and identify about 1400 different odors simultaneously, much like dogs.
When we walk in the house and somebody has a pot roast in the oven we think: "Wow, that pot roast smells great!". When your dog is on the porch he thinks: "Wow, that solution of beef roast in bone broth with garlic, celery, onions, carrots, potatoes, salt, red wine and black pepper smells great!"
 
Having moved away from scented detergent a few years back, it now makes me feel sick. This approach is such an abomination, it just might work. There is probably some “best method” for beating a deers nose, humanity may be thousands of years away from discovering it, or maybe this is it. It’s pretty
maddening that it’s almost impossible to tell, either way.
 
I will say I know it's not going to beat the deer's nose. Nothing can truly do that. But, I am starting to see where there is something to tide that has a strange calming effect that may come across as non threatening & brings out some curiosity. Mainly the non threatening part.

I'm all in for this season to see if there's any difference. So far, I'm seeing a difference in behaviors when they get anywhere around. My verdict is still out till I can see how the mature bucks act. If I even see any. According to my old way of thinking I shouldn't ever see mature deer.
 
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.
 
Ckwilli said:
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.
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Clearly they just wanted a dip.
 
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