Scent elimination, how far do you go with it?

Watching the wind and using it to your adavantage is your best bet. I do wash hunting cloths in baking soda to start season, after that they are hung on cloths line rest of season and after each use. (Let mother nature wash them after that.) I have 5 sets of cloths so I just rotate their use. Rubber boat's are a must and I have 2 pairs of them. I use a good fox urine scent as a cover for bottom of boat's and that is it. No buck lure or doe in estrous scent's for me. One natural cover scent I use when available is cedar. Just pull of a handfull of needles and rub on your cloths and hands. ( Very powerfull scent and it's free.) My thoght process is to leave as little human scent in hunting area as possible.

I work to eliminate scent and have found different strategies for different locations. The place I hunt the most is Urban and the deer are not spooked too much by human scent so I don't worry about it too much but still wash, shower and spray with a scent eliminator, I do hunt a rural property that has a lot of wood burning heaters and people seems to burn a lot in the area so I smoke my clothes for those hunts and it seems to work the majority of the time as I was rarely busted and probably more for movement than scent, and finally another country spot that is mostly fields I wash my clothes and self in Dead Down Wind and spray down once I get to the field. I probably get busted at this property the most because there is the least amount of human intrusion so it seems my scent must stick out to the deer. #1 Play the wind and #2 Know the scents in your area and how to scent eliminate accordingly.

I don't use anything special, if you hunt with the wind in your favor you don't have a problem. I guess I just learned the old school way.

I use cover scent for walking into the woods then hunt the wind, I haven't been busted yet.

I take less precautions now than I used to. I use free and clear detergent...have to because daughter breaks out in hives if clothes are washed in scented stuff. I use hunters shampoo and bar soap...funny thing though, I can smell the stuff, hmm....

I try to play the wind, but some days, that's just not possible because of shifting and swirling.

That's pretty much it. I don't get busted any more now than I did when I was more diligent about it...maybe less, actually. I think I've gotten better over the years at placing stands where I can play the wind to my best advantage based on my knowledge of the properties I hunt. That's really the BEST scent control and money can't buy that. You just have to learn from mistakes.

Never have used any scent control products. Never had any problems killing deer because of it. Started bow hunting in 06 and I was told by another hunter, you need to use scent control to be able to get the deer in closer. Killed deer every year since, without scent control and artificial attractants like doe pee. Location and wind is all you need.