Scent Control

[Heckmonkey]

Okay dumb question cause Im not a big scent control freak, but here goes.

So gonna be doing some backpack hunting? Also just setting up tent at lease. Ill be creating night camps for my hunting.

People take a lot of precautions with clothes, making them scent free as possible from home.

However, its now the day / week of the hunt. What do you all do with the clothes after each days hunt? Lets say you head back to base camp or are solo hunting and the day is over. Do you change out clothes right when you return, into some kind of hang out clothes? My concern is sitting around the camp fire or bbq some food? Hell even if not backpacking but just setting up tent at lease and hanging around? Are you storing your clothes right after you come back to camp or are you just wearing them till you go to bed? Do you bring a extra set of hang out clothes on backpack hunts? Do you just wear your stuff and spray down with scent killer the next morning?

Anyway silly question Im sure. But Ill be the dumb one to help others that didnt or dont really think about it like me.

Thanks yall

[Patton]

Change out of clothes and either hang them up out of camp or put them back in my clothes box with cedar branches.
If you don't want to pack in 'extra' clothes and be changing after each hunt- you could try smoking your clothes. Many threads on it

[Heckmonkey]

Hmm smoking clothes Ill have to read that? But yes store back in container with cedar branches or hanging away from camp sounds like the option.

[PondPopper]

Smoke. Be done.

[SwampRabbit]

Smoke. Be done.

This. I clean my clothes and myself with smoke before each hunt. I change into camp clothes when I get back.

[BrandonA]

Smoke'em

[jdeleon]

Take them off, store them separately and wear camp clothes. wash up and get back in hunting clothes before the next hunt. this year they will sit in a closet with ozonics running an hour before I get into them.

[Heckmonkey]

Hey thank you all. This is good info for those like myself that has never really played the scent game. So its really helpful. Keep it going if you have any further secrets or things processes. I think this should help others like me maybe just getting into it. Do you all use plastic trash bags or two gallon ziploc bags? Anyway cool info please keep the thread going.

[Patton]

I just use a plastic tote box for my clothes like what you can pick up at Walmart for $7. More importantly than scent control is playing the wind. Take the wind into consideration when thinking of where the deer come from, where you walk in from and where that scent blows to, and where your scent is going in relation to your 'target area'

[BowFed2014]

Do a search on here for Scent Control, and you will probably find several Old Post. Lots of good info here.

[popup_menace]

I've had better luck in clothes that I wore the night before around a campfire than I ever have with any other "scent control". As long as you don't get any gasoline, human feces, or burned hair on your clothes you should be alright.


Come to think of it, there could be a scenario in which the last sentence all happens at once....

[BrandonA]

I've had better luck in clothes that I wore the night before around a campfire than I ever have with any other "scent control". As long as you don't get any gasoline, human feces, or burned hair on your clothes you should be alright.


Come to think of it, there could be a scenario in which the last sentence all happens at once....

Yep I have tried everything under the sun. Spent hundreds on suits, sprays and everything else and the best thing I have found is smoke saturated clothes!!!

[TexanTiger]

i can tell you one thing from experience...I have gone to ridiculous lengths to stay "scent free"....the wind is the single biggest component so play it smart. other than that I keep mine in a tote outside the camp house and change into a robe to get to and from my room leaving my clothes outside in tote with cedar branches (some burnt some fresh)

[flywise]

I keep it simple....and don't worry about it.
I can wear the same clothes for a week and never take a shower and still have good deer come in from down wind.

[PondPopper]

If you smoke your clothes real heavy and your body as best as young stand it, wind will make no difference. I have had bucks, last year, 4 yards down wind of me while setting on the ground. They stopped, sniffed the air, stared at me for 20 seconds and went right on by.

I stand in the smoke in my underwear before I put on my smoked clothes.
Nothing man made works better.. This is a thousand year old Indian trick.

I only wash my clothes during hunting season if its absolutely necessary.... They get re-smoked after they are washed.