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I've been thinking of trying one this coming year. I sure seemed to get busted a lot last year.
I worked with a guy ( he since moved on) that swore by mouth sent control. He would either chew that disgusting "Gum o flage" stuff or wear a mask. He would take a week off in prime time and shoot a nice 100"-130"every year,hunting from the ground,with a stick bow, on public land in the Neceeda area. He always said 80% of what a deer smells from you when your on stand is your breath! I am starting to think he might be right.
thoughts??
Isn't a Scent Blocker Suit a fart blocker??
If you believe it works for you, great!
I often chew that gum. No clue if it helps or hurts. I wonder how much noise your jaw makes chewing that deer close in could hear.
Enjoy the hunt and trying new things - it's your hunt and you do it the way YOU enjoy it....
Don't think I would use it because it would screw up my smoking!
Seriously - if ya like....give it a try - ya never know!
Good luck!
A while back on a Alberta bowhunt for WT,S my partner whacked his Deer and agreed to be my camera man for the next 3 days .
Thursday morning I climb into a stand with the most expensive scent killing outfit money could buy . My partner was in the same tree , 3 feet above me .
The night before we ate smoked fish , stuffed Cabbage , & major quanities of Molson Beer .
I was farting at a rate of 20 per minute . My camera man was choking & gaging . He climbed up a different tree because of the deadly gases that were causing his eyes to water so bad he couldn.t see .
So much for scent blocking suits .
I remember being on a double ladder stand once gun hunting and I opened my coffee thermos and was pouring it when a deer came from behind me and stopped right under the stand. Seems that deer was intrigued by coffee.
I always brush my teeth before going out on each hunt. I assume deer are not scared by mint smells.
I agree with Nocturnal that you can't totally be scent free with a deer but I do believe there are things one can do to reduce our footprint and gain valuable seconds as Naz eluded to.
You're lucky you didn't just pop and have your buddy puking on you!!!
Everyone has there own opinions. The problem is NO ONE can prove exactly what the main odor is a deer smells on you.
It may be your ass, your pits, your hair, the perspiration you broke out on your back when walking in, or maybe it's your breath? It all plays a part in your aroma but I believe if you could teach a deer to talk he could tell you exactly what smell really catches his attention!
I guess I am trying to think outside of the box as does my ex co-worker who had swears up and down by breath smell suppression. As did my father who was a phenomenal late season canine trapper who exclusively wore cheapo, cotton throw away dust masks while leaning over his fox and coyote sets making the set. ( If any of you have worn one of these cheapo cotton masks for any amount of time, you come to realize how crappy your own breath can be!)
I'm looking at it this way.
Your sitting in your stand... its 15 degrees... you can see your breath as you exhale...
What are you seeing? You're seeing thousands of tiny water droplets each with scent in it being conveniently dispersed into the air just as if you stood in your stand and sprayed your "scent killer" spray every 10 seconds or so for as long as you sit there.
Regardless of the temperature, I'm thinking this acute and continuous scent dispersal is happening and it may be the one thing that really gets a deer's attention??
Apparently, everyone else thinks I am nuts! I probably am, but then again who knows. I've never been one to follow the masses!
Scent control is a topic that will forever be argued but I say try it and if you believe in it, that is for you.
Scent control IMO works.But it is not total elimination. Starting with stand placement (wind direction). Scrubbing down, feet then all the way to the head. Toenails carry a lot of odor so soaking can help, Ears cleaned with ear drops,etc.
You can kill deer without all of this though but sometimes playing around with things is part of the fun.
A night on the town then hunting is not the way to kill a deer though so decide what is more fun :-)
That might be the best quote I have heard in a long time. Either activity can be more fun than the other, just depends on how your luck and scent control goes.
So true Smokey,
And if not, it will go in that "Box of Knowledge" that we all have, but hate to admit!
This application may be two fold...
Maybe after sitting in the stand for a few hours, sucking air in through the carbon filter, it may mean, I will only emit a little puff of black smoke when I have to rip a good one!LOL
PS. ( wife will be PO'd having to wash black streaks out of my "tighty whitey's" now though!)
The clothing is expensive, he gets about 5 years out of it,,,,,, it is never bought from a store, but ordered, and comes to him in a sealed package,,,,,,
when he explained to me, how it helps, why it does not work for others, (the way it is handeled), I was impressed......
I could go on and on,,,,, but let me ask you this, this same guy gets nor endorsements, works for no one in the industry, just is hard core....
He has taken, in the span of the last 30 years, 18 bucks, all qualify and most are in P&Y,,,,, he has never hunted with a guide....
he has never hunted anything, but public land, on bucks that are use to heavy heavy pressure,
so I would not just laugh, at what this guy does, he hunts several states, and bust his a..
some of the comments on this site, are pretty smug,,,,,,,
First and foremost. The single most important thing is scouting.
2nd.. Is your approach to your spot.
3rd.. Understanding wind and thermal.
4th. Time spent in the woods. ( silent )
These 4 ingredients will put you in the game. You could go in the woods with smelly work clothes and still kill a mature whitetail.
As many have mentioned above whatever you want to buy is your choice. I have read and watched the YouTube video that was taken down due to legal issues. When myth busters wanted to see if carbon clothes actually work. They tested 3 guys. And the dog found the guy in the carbon suit first. Every single time. Just before the show was going to air. The scent company said they would sue, and demanded they don't air the show. They had said they did not follow the guide lines.
So myth busters accepted their assistance and the guy was dressed head to toe. And the dog found them first, again.
You can go to whatever extreme you want to go to. Your not crazy at all. I think we give the whitetail more credit than what they should have. If you pay attention to the 4 guidelines listed above. You'll realize you don't need any of those things. Drop gas, pee, eat all the hot sauce you want.
If you want to do all this extra stuff for an extra 2 secs when a deer gets down wind. Than do it.
#3 is one that a lot (or some) of hunters don't understand or give much thought to. Is it a thermal or an upslope/downslope wind? for instance. Instead try to find that magic pill.
All of what you mention are included in what I call #1 scent control: stand placement.
Those are the places where the fancy clothes, scent blocker, gum, and charcoal mask might help. Oh ya and eating nothing but vegies and drinking swamp water for the previous week.
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I am always trying new ideas and tricks, some work, some do not, nothing is absolute,,,, but it is all fun,,,,,
I am a big user of carbon synergy, I know it works to give me an edge at times, if someone else thinks its stupid, so be it..........
I will say this," if I was carefree, about how I handled my traps, would not be much trapped "....
And while I agree that the deers nose is amazing it can still be played with somewhat. Imagine if your body gives off 100 molecules of scent (just using a number) and the scent lock suit holds in 20 of them and the charcoal face mask holds back 10 of them. Now there are only 70 of them out there for the deer to smell. That's still a lot and if the wind is wrong odds are they will still smell it but there's less of a chance of it.
I know the organic filers work, I have been in the hospital after varnishing. I now wear a half face org filter mask and I cannot even smell the varnish or poly with it on.
Treefarm, hint hint.... time to put your thinking cap on.