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Anyone have any homemade remedies for earth cover scent?
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Only cover scent I have ever found effective was a favorable wind...There is simply no way to outsmart a whitetail's nose, IME.
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Only cover scent I have ever found effective was a favorable wind...There is simply no way to outsmart a whitetail's nose, IME.
DJ Yup...
- Greg
Success is found at the intersection of planning, hard work, and stubbornness.
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Yup--favorable wind--- Or OLD SPICE---Web
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I'm with Steelie - just smear a bunch of the local dirt on ya. Works pretty good to crush up pine needles and rub it on, if they are around.
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Only cover scent I have ever found effective was a favorable wind...There is simply no way to outsmart a whitetail's nose, IME.
DJ Ditto
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i hunt farms ,so stepping in a few cow piles on the way in won't hurt a bit. look for those real mushy ones. cedar in with my clothes and a bottle of odorlock.
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Ther's a whole bunch of cedar on our lease,I always break a branch or 2 off and beat my clothes with it and take at least 1 inside the stand.
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I splash on a little hoppes No. 9, put on my spare ammo windchime necklace, apply my blue tape & head out into the wild.
Something clever here.
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i hunt farms ,so stepping in a few cow piles on the way in won't hurt a bit. look for those real mushy ones. cedar in with my clothes and a bottle of odorlock. I like to stop drop and roll in the stuff.
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I save my SDR for the gut piles
love to roll in a fresh gut pile.
Something clever here.
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I like to snack on it too.
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I'm a little like ND...but I don't roll in gut piles..
Don't need to if you have blue tape...
Ingwe
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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gut piles are ok but if you want to really live try bugling through a fresh 12" length of wind pipe. Bugle & hoot & holler through it till spit is running out the end. Then bite down on the end in your mouth & shake your head like a dog trying to destroy a chew toy so the spitty floppy end slaps you in the ears & sends strings of hunter spit & neck tube juices flying out into the wind. too much?  sorry, i think i'm going into hunter rut.
Something clever here.
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Thats what I do with turkeys too.
I take the windpipe out and it makes a perfect gobble.............for a few days anyway.
Then it turns into jerky.
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mmm, nom, nom, nom, nom... jerky...
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although i don't normally hunt from a campsite, i have heard that wood smoke makes a good masking scent, and does not overly alarm the intended victims, be they porcine in nature, or odocoilus virginianus.
i think this may be a "they say..." thing. sounds reasonable. building a small fire in the middle of the biggest drought in the last century just for the application of woodsmoke to a hunter's body seems a bit risky, however.
i don't think i could get that past the brother unit.
-tom
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