How do you hide your scent while hunting?

my wife whom is recently deceased, had all her Native relatives on the Rez tell me to always build a small fire bon-fire the night before and light it up in the morning before going hunting and stand in the smoke and let you and your clothes absorb the smoke, has worked for me in most cases over the years!
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
Ok, in all seriousness this is what works for me...

I collect deer fecal material and put into a black garbage bag with whatever hunting clothes I am going to use for that season, I add fresh droppings about every week during season and keep the bag closed tightly but always in above freezing temperatures to ensure it festers properly.The bedding I sleep in is always stored with whatever natural vegetation is in the area I will hunt in and even even include spruce bows for added comfort.

For shampoo and soap I usually collect the sap from the local spruce and pine trees and use that as my all purpose cleaner and soap, typically I wash in slough water to avoid the smell of harsh contaminates associated with our water treatment processes.The sap never seems to rinse out fully but leaves a pleasant odor.

When It comes to diet I typically start a week before deer season eating only what deer eat from that area I plan to hunt , the local grains typically and some extra alfalfa in a salad type dish for roughage.This ensures your droppings are very similar to the deer.

There is no need for cover scents and lures , nature has provided all you need for a successful hunt.
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That's what I call a very dry sense of humor, "love it", could you keep a straight face writing it ?
 
mrgoat said:
That's what I call a very dry sense of humor, "love it", could you keep a straight face writing it ?
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hey, Kelly is a very very good Sasksquawch chaser/hunter/observer out there in Saskland. he knows what is what, I would not doubt for a second the advice is giving us! No humor there! Good solid advice, it is!
 
Just for ####s and giggles, could those who say that de-scenting is a waste of time please state what you use to hunt and your preferred hunting style along with your average shot distance. I'm willing to bet all of you use a firearm of some sort or bow hunt from an elevated stand and none of you regularly stalk within 10-30 yards of deer where even the slightest mistake sends the deer running. I bow hunted from a tree stand for years and scent control is definitely not too important as your scent is carried over the animals usually.

I'm also wondering about the "play the wind" comments. Am I the only one who has experienced sudden and dramatic shifts in wind direction? This is often disastrous when you're 15 yards from a couple deer and the wind starts blowing on your neck right towards the animals. However, being as scent free as possible greatly reduces the chance of the deer winding you and becoming alert or fleeing.


Like I said, how scent free you need to be depends on what your hunting tool and style.
 
canadian hunter312 said:
I'm also wondering about the "play the wind" comments. Am I the only one who has experienced sudden and dramatic shifts in wind direction? This is often disastrous when you're 15 yards from a couple deer and the wind starts blowing on your neck right towards the animals. However, being as scent free as possible greatly reduces the chance of the deer winding you and becoming alert or fleeing.


Like I said, how scent free you need to be depends on what your hunting tool and style.
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Good point, I seldom have consistent winds in my hunting area, it seems to me that the wind has more of a swirling pattern in my hills.

If I am going to be spending my precious time away from my family of wife and 3 young kids, and work to be hunting deer I am the type of person to be in it whole hog.
 
It is an art form to be able to be one with the environment when hiding from all forms of creatures, I didn't learn all this over night it took years of trial and error.

Remember the T-Rex urine scene with the little boy surviving in the jungle? ;)

two-dogs said:
hey, Kelly is a very very good Sasksquawch chaser/hunter/observer out there in Saskland. he knows what is what, I would not doubt for a second the advice is giving us! No humor there! Good solid advice, it is!
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The greatest hunters in north America were the native bush Indians, up until a period of about seventy years ago. They could sneak right up to game animals and they used absolutely nothing to hide their scent.
 
A hunter needs to try and remain as scent free as you can, however, expecting to buffalo every deer with your tricks you will fail.

Keep your scent to the minimum, stay down wind, and MINIMIZE MOVEMENT the real hard one DON"T MOVE!
 
H4831 said:
The greatest hunters in north America were the native bush Indians, up until a period of about seventy years ago. They could sneak right up to game animals and they used absolutely nothing to hide their scent.
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True, but I wouldn't use anything to hide my scent either if I lived in a 100% natural environment. They didn't live in homes with air fresheners, scented candles and deep fryers or live in a society where showering daily with strongly scented soaps and shampoos before applying some old spice is the normal thing to do. They only stank of BO, smoke from the fire, and peace pipe :D



I'm heading out tomorrow morning in some fresh snow to track a deer down and put the stalk on with the crossbow. Here's to hoping scent elimination saves my ass if the wind shifts the wrong way...
 
I've shot a lot of deer with a smoke hangin outta my mouth..... like has been said, hunt the wind and it won't matter.
I do a lot of ambush hunting in a certain spot. I only hunt the mornings where in my spot there is a predictable downdraft on the mountainside. I'll stick to my spot till I feel the wind change to an updraft..... and it's time to go as any deer up the mountain will be aware of me at that point.

I use hunter's body wash before my hunts, wash my gear in phosphate free non scented soaps and also stick my gear in a bag with pine or similar branches
no campfire no foods with strong odours.
personally I think the phosphate free, no UV brightener laundry soap does more than anything else. if yer washing yer hunting clothes in normal laundry soap.... you are walking around in the bush glowing like a neon sign to any ungulate that sees you.
 
Once again, you cannot cover or hide your scent from thousands of years of natural evolution.

Quit spendin money on scent control and spend it on sausage casings and garlic.That is if you are good enough and can play the wind and be quiet. ;)

Motion, noise, wind. All bad.
 
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