Scent free clothes

[L. Cooper]

Come on! Nothing but 200-300 yards without spending money on scent control products that don't work anyway??

In 50 years of hunting deer I have never shot one at more than about 225 yards, and probably 85% have been less than 100 yards. I have shot several at less than 25 yards upwind and down on occasion. One memorable buck was shot while standing trying to figure me out at no more than 5 yards. I have never hunted from a man made blind or tree stand of any kind.

Maybe instead of worrying about scent reduction, we should all think more about hunting skills. I'll repeat myself by just saying, think about what a deer's nose can do. You can't beat it anyway.

I let my wife wash anything she wants, we always stop at noon for a fire to cook sausage and have a cigar with coffee afterward, and we have repaired and fueled up trucks, quads, and snowmobiles and still managed to shoot deer afterward. Unless I get a lot of blood or dirt on them, I (or my wife) seldom wash my hunting coveralls before the end of the season.

I'm not saying you can't reduce your scent plume, just that it won't fool a deer even if you try.

I find the smell of those fox urine or skunk cover scents very unpleasant. Why spend any part of your life smelling like fox pee? Kind of ruins the experience for me (not to mention my hunting patners), and I suspect most deer end up wondering why that human stinks like a fox.