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What works best for you? skunk, buck semen, doe pee? I thought it would be interesting to see if you guys think something is better than the rest.

Skill, patience, knowing the wind, experience, knowing yours and your weapons capabilites and being prepared....I really don't use scent block..

The only type of scent elimination I do is wear rubber boots when I'm scouting which holds scent in very well....

The only other artificial scent I use is during the rut when I stir them up with a little Tinks 69.....

Are we talking cover scents or attractants here?

tinks 69 for attractant. pine scent for cover. shower in some type of no scent soap. no scent deoderant

I also use Tinks 69 for attractant. For cover scent I use unscented detergent, wash with unscented soap, and store all my clothes in a big, airtight bag full of H.S. Specialties fresh earth wafers. Been doing this for 10yrs now and it works awesome. Take them out and the earth is all you smell. Lasts all season long with 2-3 wafers in the bag---2MG

I just avoid smelly soaps and shampoo, and then work the wind.

The wind! I all ways use the wind to my advantage. I will use some fox pee on my boots sometimes. Its hard to catch the fox though.!!!

Either, or certain soaps, techniques, or whatever.

So far I am really glad skunk scent is not turning out to be the most effective.

Normally a .30 caliber slug of appropriate design at no less than 2000 fps works well...

Seriously, I ditto what Gmoney, jmj, and Steelhead said. If one deer winds me, fine - it wins. If not, well, I win... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'm a big believer in sodium bicarbonate

Cover Scents

Don't know if they work but I use: skunk and Salem Kings.

a good clothes pin.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

SOAP <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> really, I was all my clothes in All Hypo-allergenic detergent and dont wear my hunting boots around town.

"What works best for you? skunk, buck semen" - buck semen, sounds promising but you could get hurt collecting it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Also, what kind of deer are you trying to attract <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I think skunk scents work against you as they use it when danger is around , i use red fox urine as cover and a pure soap that has no odor like ivory another good scent is earth sent it smells like dirt. If you hunt pines use pine if you hunt apple orchards use apple but dont go from the orchard to the pines your scent would be out of place . Later Tanoose

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So far I am really glad skunk scent is not turning out to be the most effective. [/quote]

The few times I used skunk thinking that it would hide my scent it put every deer I saw on full alert.A skunk sprays because something is amiss and I believe that the animals pay attention to each others signals.Ever have the chance to watch the deer when the crows are goin' nuts?

Hunt near a gas or oil well.

Saw that too, with skunk and fox. They key on it. Used enough skunk that smelling a hot one now reminds me of fall bowhunting...don't mind it at all <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

FWIW, put any cover scent away from you , not near you, or worse on you, shoot them while they check it out--and don't bother with a bad wind, the key element. Sometimes you get lucky because they are pre-occupied with something on their deer brains and that is when some wonder product gets all the credit...

I work the wind also, but when I was a kid I used to put a little red fox urine under the instep of my boot on a patch of wool. I trapped a lot then so I just had it around.
I actually had a fork-horn once with his nose to the ground following my scent from that stuff. Weird.