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Post by fullrut on Sept 14, 2007 16:04:22 GMT -5
Well the deer I have in the picture with the scentkiller bottle is not my 190 from 2006, he is my 155 from 2005. I took the pic of him with the scentkiller to enter a photo contest to recieve a bunch of free wildlife research center goods. I won it and got alot of free products. Scentkiller blocks your odor, I spray it all over me as soon as I get out of the truck and as soon as I get in my stand. By the time I get to my stand my hat band is sweaty and stinks I spray it on the band and then I can't smell anything, this proves to me it works, try it sometime. All I can say is that the day I killed my biggest buck to date he got downwind of me
and didn't smell me. I am not one for gimmicks but I honestly believe this works. As for the othe brands of scent elimination products I can't say they are any less effective, all I know is that scentkiller works. Good Luck this season to you all.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Sept 14, 2007 16:51:09 GMT -5
Hunt the wind. 100% effective and to top it off it's FREE!
Personally I think it's all a gimmick and hype.
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Post by fullrut on Sept 14, 2007 16:54:11 GMT -5
I agree you should always play the wind, but sometimes when they circle you, you need the help of scent control. If you want to see how much faith I put into hunting when the wind is right read my feature article in North American Whitetail in the September issue. Wind is everyhing, but it doesn't hurt to have a little help either. What can it hurt.
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Post by rmc on Sept 14, 2007 19:11:53 GMT -5
I use Scent sheild Fall Blend and love it. I have a stock pile right now.
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Post by huxbux on Sept 14, 2007 19:59:34 GMT -5
A touchy subject these scent products. I've been deer hunting 35 yrs. now and I've tried a ton of different ones over the years. I'm not convinced any of them have done a lick of good. I've killed big deer with no scent products whatsoever. I've been scented by immature deer while using cover scents. Simply bagging a deer while using a scent proves nothing. He was downwind from you? So what. A slight swirl may easily have pushed your scent away from him just long enough for you to make the shot. His nose (and hormones) may have been so preoccupied with another odor, he wouldn't have been spooked by a diesel fuel spill. As sensitive as a deer's olfactory glands are, are we really gullible enough to believe that any scent on the market is not detectable as bogus to the deer? Do we honestly believe that the sex scents on the market smell like the real thing to a deer? I watched an expose on a TV show many years back (can't remember the name of the show, or the host's name, all I remember is that he was from Michigan) They had a food plot that many deer were frequenting. Different types of scents by several manufacturers were randomly applied in the plot. the scent given the most attention, by the most deer, the most times and also spooked the deer the least amount of the time was...................... human urine! Needless to say, this show is no longer on the air. (could be he had a sponsorship problem). I have no faith whatsoever in scents. That being said, I use Fresh Earth Scent Killer liberally, because it's cheap and I surely smell vastly more offensive to deer than anything on the market. ;D
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Post by fullrut on Sept 14, 2007 20:08:56 GMT -5
Maybe we should all start smoking Marlboro Lights, I hear they work great. Maybe we could dip them in Doe-n-heat and they would work even better. Nothing works every time, but it can't hurt. When you have decided to become a trophy hunter you should do everything possible to put the odds in your favor. If a product works 1 in a hundred times it is worth it to me. Maybe that 1 time might be when a BOONER walks by.
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Post by bsutravis on Sept 15, 2007 8:27:30 GMT -5
I'm with ya fullrut.... I don't go scent paranoid and buy the scent suits and all that stuff, but I do give the boots and my clothes a good spray of Scent Killer as I head into the woods. Nothing is going to eliminate all your scent.....just think how rank your breath has to smell to a buck....but I'm willing to take a few precautions. Scent Killer is a small investment when compared to how much other stuff we hunters drop $$$ on.... It's worth $10 for a SLIGHT edge versus nothing at all.
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Post by bbarth on Sept 15, 2007 9:07:48 GMT -5
I agree with most of you it all boils down to playing the wind, however I've had luck with scent elimination products also when deer have come in downwind.
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Post by freedomhunter on Sept 15, 2007 9:31:16 GMT -5
Nothing beats getting lucky! That being said, if you play the wind and hunt high, then ground scent should be your concern. Everywhere you walk in the woods you are going to get patterned by the older deer (at night). Elimitrax is the only thing I have ever used that will fool mature deer and coyotes. Rubber boots smell like rubber, no matter what you do to them, I've seen old does and bucks and coyotes that I know smell the ground scent of the rubber boots (sprayed down lacrosse alpha's) and freak because they have smelled them before. This makes the old bucks go nocturnal quick and kills your chances early season.
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Post by ispfowler on Sept 15, 2007 9:45:01 GMT -5
Hunt the wind. 100% effective and to top it off it's FREE! Personally I think it's all a gimmick and hype. I suppose deoderant is a gimmick to? What does deoderant do? It kills odor or cover's it up. Some companys might put water in a bottle and call it scent eliminator, but some companys do actual help eliminate or reduce odor. Take a wash cloth or a dish cloth after you have used it awhile and it starts to stink, and spray a scent eliminator on it and see what happens. I agree with you 100% to use the wind to your advantage, but sometimes that doesn't always work depending on where you are hunting (and the fact that wind changes directions). Just my opinion. |
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Post by indianahick on Sept 15, 2007 12:39:56 GMT -5
I personally believe that showering with scent killing soaps is a major factor is scent elimination. I tried Fresh Earth a couple of years ago and watched down wind deer scent it and leave the area. Then tried a non scented spray a couple of weeks later and the down wind deer kept coming although not within killing range. Darn Does.
Best scent elimination demonstration I have ever seen was where some guy took an onion and sliced it up and then sprayed it with a scent eliminator. Wish I could remember which one, darn Alzheimer's. For cover scent I like skunk scent, real not artificial. Course you got to keep your boots outside, wives do not like the smell of skunk in the house. Not sure why heck it is a natural scent.
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Post by gillgrabber on Sept 15, 2007 13:40:01 GMT -5
I used to use skunk cover scent about 25 years ago. I never seemd to have much luck with it. A friend of mine read that skunk was an "alarm" scent and that skunks typically sprayed when confronted by dogs, coyotes, etc - the same things that would alarm a deer; thus, it stood to reason that when a deer smelled skunk spray it had reason to worry and sometimes elected to move away. It made sense to me so I stopped using it. I began using other cover scents and seemed to immediately start seeing more deer.
Just my experience....
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 15, 2007 15:42:29 GMT -5
I used skunk cover scent a few years ago and two different times deer ran as soon as they smelled it. Haven't used it since and wont. h.h.
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Post by indianahick on Sept 16, 2007 12:35:25 GMT -5
Hmmm. Interesting read on the skunk scent. I have also used Raccoon. The only times I have seen an appreciable difference was when my hunting friend used a man made chemical type of skunk. Even to me it had an odd scent. But at the same time I have seen mature does come up and smell the area where I had my scent impregnated rag. I always thought that she was trying to see what had bothered the skunk and finding nothing she moved on. The only thing that I am positive of is I do not want to use pine smelling scents where there are no pines. Maybe I will just look for Raccoon this year and retire the skunk. Could be such a thing as skunks are plentiful in that area where I am hunting now and were in the old area which has been closed.
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Post by huxbux on Sept 16, 2007 20:50:20 GMT -5
This is the point I'm trying to make. If a product works once in a hundred times, odds are pretty darn good it don't work at all. Until I see some data collected by a disinterested party, proving any type of scent works, I remain a skeptic. Nevertheless, as I said previously, I do use the Scent Killer products. I'm just not sure why. It's a matter of faith I suppose, which needs no proof or explanation. I'm a firm supporter of using whatever gives one confidence for the task at hand and I ridicule no-ones M.O.
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Post by Sasquatch on Sept 16, 2007 21:17:04 GMT -5
I don't know if Scent Killer will save you every time a deer is downwind. I suspect nothing works all the time.
I will say that when my son barfed on his car seat--bless him--- I scrubbed and scrubbed but the stench remained. When I doused it with Scent Killer spray it killed it right off. It does kill odor.
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