Where does your scent control start?
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I have two ladder stands around most of my bait sites. Playing the wind. Tried everything I could to keep them from smelling me, but after five decades of trying its a waste of time unless the wind is in your favor, you are busted. You can get into the jet stream to avoid their sense of smell, but otherwise nothing else works other than being down wind.
When ya leave Deer Shack, in the morning, got the coffee on and the wood stove going. Take 1/2 a bottle of Tink's 69 and dump that on the top log, in the fire. That chimney goes up about 25 feet and acts just like a big old Vaporizer, when that Tink's 69 turns to steam. If the prevailing winds are out of the Northwest, Bucks, that you've never seen before, will be strolling in from the Southeast sections of the Township.
You may never be able to live in the cabin again.
Terry Lightle
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My control starts when the truck door opens so the wind can get to me,do not think you can fool a coyote nose no matter what you do if he cuts your downwind side.
I have never smoked as I played football and that cuts your wind and the smell stays with you or so I thought.
Then I met some folks that told me they carry black pepper in their coat pockets and that kills the smoke smell and all animals can't smell them with the black pepper in their pockets and even confuses their smell senses.
You smokers should try it.The guys that told me about it got their deer every year.
Then I met some folks that told me they carry black pepper in their coat pockets and that kills the smoke smell and all animals can't smell them with the black pepper in their pockets and even confuses their smell senses.
You smokers should try it.The guys that told me about it got their deer every year.
Ya can't smell the Tink's in the cabin, it all goes up the stack, unless you have a leaking stovepipe.
SuperJetr333
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My scent control begins and ends with the wind. I also try not to bugger up a spot by putting my ecaller too far from me if I'm using one. I regularly chew on a stand. If they can smell my chew they can already smell me, so wind is the biggest factor.
Also, approaching a stand thinking of the wind plays into the same idea I mentioned.
Also, approaching a stand thinking of the wind plays into the same idea I mentioned.
BooneLiane
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Scent control for calling coyotes is a waste of time.
They got a better nose than any ungulate out there, and the brain to go behind it.
If you have a coyote "down wind" and he's not turning inside out heading for the territories, something was going on that he wasn't "in" you're wind, or you're blessed with dumb, un-exploited coyotes and are lucky.
They got a better nose than any ungulate out there, and the brain to go behind it.
If you have a coyote "down wind" and he's not turning inside out heading for the territories, something was going on that he wasn't "in" you're wind, or you're blessed with dumb, un-exploited coyotes and are lucky.
There is an episode of Mythbusters that basically discovered the same thing. Nothing they could do would completely cover their scent, and they went to GREAT lengths to do so. Even extensively washing, then wrapping themselves up in several types of impermeable suits to prevent their scent from leaving beneath the "clothes" and wearing respirators that prevented their breath from escaping the mask.
The blood hounds found them just as easily as their "control" which was no scent masking attempt made at all. It seems that the scent control products are similar to fishing baits, they catch more fishermen than fish.
If im stand hunting I step in the first cow crap patty I see on the way end and climb as high as I can in a tree.
If I'm stalking I play the wind and prayers
My dad keeps all his hunting clothes in sealed bags together and washes with all the stuff and uses all the soaps, I just don't have the patience for it.
If I'm stalking I play the wind and prayers
My dad keeps all his hunting clothes in sealed bags together and washes with all the stuff and uses all the soaps, I just don't have the patience for it.
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