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Originally Posted by wrenchman
I beleave in natural cover sents i youse to take pine bows and stick them in a plastic bag with my hunting clothes
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That's great and will work if you are hunting in an area that is heavy with pine trees, but what if you hunt multiple areas, and say you hunt an area that has no pines, such as marsh....will the 'foreign' smell spook the deer then?
I used to be a sucker for all those bottled scents, ect. One of our local outdoor TV personalities did a bunch of tests and actually had a deer come up and sniff an area where he had poured out a bottle of cheap aftershave lotion.
After that, I tried a little experiment of my own and mixed up a concoction of human urine, vanilla extract, mineral oil, and a couple of other odds & ends (don't remember what, exactly), and then left a drag trail using a small rag soaked in the stuff. I walked about 150 yards dragging that trail, and shortly after I stopped and put up my tree seat, a small forkhorn buck was coming in, nose down right on the trail that I had laid down. (I missed him, BTW....I was bowhunting and it was the first deer I shot at with a bow).
I don't bother with any of that stuff anymore......I just make sure and wash my clothes in baking soda and try and keep foreign smells (such as gasoline and aftershave) off my person while hunting.