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Get yourself an old school percolating coffee pot from Wally World, drill a few holes in sides at the bottom for air, start small fire inside then put lid on top. Easy peasy.

Sounds like a good DIY idea but the cost of a new percolator is the same as a bee smoker. If you’re going to buy something new then might as well buy the smoker. Now if you have a percolator lying around or find one at a yard sale, then drill away!
 
Sounds like a good DIY idea but the cost of a new percolator is the same as a bee smoker. If you’re going to buy something new then might as well buy the smoker. Now if you have a percolator lying around or find one at a yard sale, then drill away!
Man I got a cheapo blue one in their camping section for like $3-4.
 
Have to admit, as much as I'm anti scent control with anything comnercial, several years ago in my young 20s, I under dressed for a hunt, got colder than cold and built a fire to stay in the hunt. I still froze out after a few hours and as I walked out, directly in my line of smoke from the fire, I crested a small hilltop and just over the top were several deer, directly in my line of smoke, about 200yds from the fire. I literally walked right into them before they spooked. I felt at the time they were monitoring the fire, moreless keeping an eye on it for obvious reasons.. but it obviously covered my scent
 
I work at a paper mil( and they stink like crazy if you haven't smelled one you should) and I go hunting strait from work sometimes and I seam to get busted less after working around that turpentine smell all day then I do after going thru my whole de-scent regime. Any ideas about this or anybody else have this experience?
 
I used to go camping a lot more before I started hunting. And I can tell you that after 3 days with no shower and standing in campfire smoke, I still smell like armpits and ***hole...and smoke. I’d rather be clean than smokey.
 
I used to go camping a lot more before I started hunting. And I can tell you that after 3 days with no shower and standing in campfire smoke, I still smell like armpits and ***hole...and smoke. I’d rather be clean than smokey.

Ha! I’d rather be clean AND smokey!

Real life smoked up example for me last Saturday - shot a big doe and as I sat in my tree and waited for her to expire, another small doe came in and fed directly downwind of me. She fed there for a few minutes, I’m sure right then that she was getting either zero scent or just a minuscule amount due to wind swirls, thermals and/or my height in the tree. After a few minutes, she definitely caught a whiff - her head went up and she checked the wind. Stood there for a minute or more on low alert. She obviously was not completely comfortable but didn’t stomp, snort and blow out of there. She left me with plenty of time to take a shot if I had wanted to. Eventually she walked away on low alert. She was inside 20 yards this whole time.

I certainly was not invisible to her nose, but she couldn’t figure me out either, even at close range. This kind of reaction seems to be pretty typical with smoke from what I’ve seen myself and read. I feel pretty confident that if she had got a full nose of human, she would not have stuck around that long. I will keep using it.
 
Have to admit, as much as I'm anti scent control with anything comnercial, several years ago in my young 20s, I under dressed for a hunt, got colder than cold and built a fire to stay in the hunt. I still froze out after a few hours and as I walked out, directly in my line of smoke from the fire, I crested a small hilltop and just over the top were several deer, directly in my line of smoke, about 200yds from the fire. I literally walked right into them before they spooked. I felt at the time they were monitoring the fire, moreless keeping an eye on it for obvious reasons.. but it obviously covered my scent
So I assume that fooling a deer's nose is not "a fantasy" as some have stated in another thread? LOL
 
So I assume that fooling a deer's nose is not "a fantasy" as some have stated in another thread? LOL
Tom,
First, my beef is primarily with commercial voodoo products. Second, I'm not smoking my clothes, or building fires to get deer when my methods work just as well with less BS to deal with. The best way would be to roll in wet mud, then fire ash, you gonna try that even once? let alone every hunt, because that will work. Its tough being the grounded guy in this group that likes to cut the crap and work with facts and experience (not that I'm the only one, just the only one who will say what should be said). I don't say the things I say to be an A-Whole, although I know thats what it appears. I just know what I know from first hand work, such as with Ozone mojo, which ive crossed paths with in my professional life several times, and this scent loc fantasy, which believe me, is a fantasy. You throw in everything else in between, and guys are out there compromising sound hunting practices for false technology. Its an industry that's profit oriented. That says it all.
 
Tom,
First, my beef is primarily with commercial voodoo products. Second, I'm not smoking my clothes, or building fires to get deer when my methods work just as well with less BS to deal with. The best way would be to roll in wet mud, then fire ash, you gonna try that even once? let alone every hunt, because that will work. Its tough being the grounded guy in this group that likes to cut the crap and work with facts and experience (not that I'm the only one, just the only one who will say what should be said). I don't say the things I say to be an A-Whole, although I know thats what it appears. I just know what I know from first hand work, such as with Ozone mojo, which ive crossed paths with in my professional life several times, and this scent loc fantasy, which believe me, is a fantasy. You throw in everything else in between, and guys are out there compromising sound hunting practices for false technology. Its an industry that's profit oriented. That says it all.
So what is your fool proof scent treatment for deer hunting?
 
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