How do you guys wash your hunting gear?

In the washing machine, as said you stink, your breath stinks, nothing you do with your cloths is going to change that.
 
For anything water proof and breathable ie gortex, dwr etc. clean works better than dirty. Detergent cleaners will foul its ability to breath. Use a non-detergent cleaner. Nikwax tech wash, non-detergent woolite or other gear specific cleaners. I usually use a rubbermaid pail or a bathtub. Soak, agitate, soak... soak... soak, then drain and rinse. Hang dry.
 
I'll let you in awn a wee sea-critt.
Them car freshenerrzs, the ones that looky like a pine tree?
Yeeeeeeee-up, I yewse to ware'im round me neck.
Now they come in aireesaul.
Spray yer chit wid'it.
But yewse the forest flayvore.
Werkie more better'in.




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Most of my gear is wool so I don't wash for the most part, my jacket hasn't been washed in yrs. I just make sure to hang dry it if it gets wet or put it over a chair next to the wood stove, if it's not wool I wash it like normal.
 
Londonshooter said:
If you do the same for drying, now your goretex doesn't breathe because of fabric softener sheets.
The "whiteners" in regular detergent make you glow like a lamp for those animals that can see that frequency. You will be "whiter than white".
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This article:

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1279&context=icwdm_usdanwrc

suggests that our hooved friends have vision with a) less detail, b) wider coverage, c) better low light sensitivity, d) blue and green sensitivity curves roughly equivalent to ours, and e) much less sensitivity to red light (deep red looks black).

Hence, I suppose, the old favourite of black/deep-red plad; contrasting and obviously not-natural to other humans, but non-contrasting and not particularly noteworthy to other animals that don't share our fetish for right angles.
 
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j_06 said:
f:P:The very first post, "I was thinking of getting some unscented laundry soap and washing it right now and let it sit until the fall." aswell as post 2 and 10. Not to mention the others, 12,14,15 etc
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Scent control is the wind. Period. I use soap without brighteners and whiteners.
 
I wash my regular hunting clothing with UV Killer and NoScent soap . My Gortex gear gets a refurb and the outer gets a light cover of NoScent spray. Has worked well over the years.
 
you can use all the no scent you want you still smell ... and the game will smell it if you are not in the right sens of the wind ... not even talk about noise...
 
So does anyone think that ozone scent crusher bag/bins does anything? Even though I don't really think it does anything, I still was my clothes in scent free stuff and store in bins with pine and cedar branches. Come hunting time I soak myself with more scent away stuff. I even think about getting a washing machine in the garage strictly for hunting gear..
 
chuck nelson said:
Scent control is the wind. Period. I use soap without brighteners and whiteners.
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No ####, re read my initial post. To some people things like ozonics, ozone bags, scent free this or that are scent control too, or as stated by the op, he wanted scent free detergent as a means to negate hunting the wind, seems he not alone either. Why would he want a scent free detergent if not for scent control? FFS man your reading comprehension and cognition is right up there with the dump i took this morning.
 
First I do an empty load of wash to clean out the machine of any lint or fuzzy bits off clothes, most hunting detergents are non scented and help prevent those woollie fluff balls I recommend those I use the 99.9% scent killer. Hang dry and store in a bin with cedar pucks and pine needles for a nice natural scent
 
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