How does scent killer work

Scent blocker clothing will last for a season or two then it loses its ability to absorb odors, giving you a sense of false security after that. I do not purchase this clothing and prefer cotton camouflage material that can be control through washing and scent covers masking odor. You can see in my videos that bucks come right under our stands or within 10 yards when hunting. Our stands are only 13 to 15 feet off the ground and we do not purchase odor eliminator sprays or clothing.

In this video the deer comes up to the stand to lick the apple juice that was on my boot due to stepping on apples in my orchard. This video is taken by my son who also uses leaves for scent control. This video is during the rut and this buck stood under my stand for 10 minutes without scenting me. Again we do not use any scent eliminator sprays or scent blocker clothing.

I did have apple on my boots, leaf scent on my clothing, and I had a Doe in heat pad hanging in a near by bush. These are just a few of the videos we have and we have no trouble getting bucks to come in close. There are a number of things you can do to minimize your odor and I will touch on a few.

However, each hunter is different, the climate your hunting is different, and the terrain is different, which will require different tactics. For example, when I had my land in Buffalo Co. I carried my clothes up the ridges in a plastic bag. Once I got within a hundred yards of my stand I changed into my hunting clothes and put my sweaty clothes into a different plastic bag.

This kept my body odor from penetrating into my hunting clothes. A Few Odor Minimizing Tactics 1. Shower before going out to hunt.

The odors are emitted through the skin and breath. Figuring out which specific ingredients of body odor spook deer is the real challenge, the researchers said.

Each of us emits a unique scent, and that scent varies depending on what and when we eat, drink, exercise and sweat. To obtain a cross-section of scents, the researchers collected body odor samples from 65 people who for hours wore either an untreated T-shirt or a T-shirt treated with a hunting spray designed to eliminate or mask body odor.

The researchers tested 4 hunting sprays out of dozens on the market, though they did not identify specific brands. Based on analysis of the hundreds of VOCs emitted by the 65 people, researchers found that the sprays worked by greatly reducing the levels of 29 key compounds , either by killing bacteria, binding to the chemicals, or converting them into less volatile compounds.

Bottom line: More confirmation that odor-eliminating sprays work, and you should use one while deer hunting. Read the article again and key in on what words are used. Put one piece of pizza in the oven and you will still smell pizza. The deer know what human odor is regardless of how miniscule.

I definitely believe that the scent sprays reduce human odor detection by deer, but with the firm belief that it does not Totally eliminate our odors. Call me old fashioned in a way but when you hunt public grounds that are hit pretty hard, there are no small mistakes on big bucks. I use sprays to up my advantage, but do not use them to cover up sloppy hunting location. Nuff said I guess. Off my soapbox and back to the mushrooming.

Photograph by Lance Krueger For more and more of us, spraying down has become part of the deer hunting ritual For more and more of us, spraying down has become part of the deer hunting ritual. We slip on our camo and immediately mist it in a no-scent fog. We slide into rubber boots and shower the soles before taking a step.

We hang a bow, a pack, or a trail cam and—you got it—douse it with deodorizing spray. This is our sixth scent test—and it has actually been a few years in the making. Back in , with the help of Houston County, Minn. During that session, we also tested several scent-control sprays. In a field dotted with six identical, evenly spaced plywood boxes, Chance had to find the one box containing a hunter. The Results : In the first trial, the hunter who remained in the box did not spray down—and Chance found him in 20 seconds.

In the next three, I doused the hunter in one brand of spray after another. Each time, Chance was barking outside his box in 18 seconds or less, averaging 15 seconds.