best early season scent
06-26-2007, 11:20 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
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RE: best early season scent
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
06-26-2007, 11:41 AM
#23
Boone & Crockett
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RE: best early season scent
ORIGINAL: huntingson
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
06-26-2007, 11:48 AM
#26
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RE: best early season scent
ORIGINAL: ron3775
What about trailing some cover scent like fox urine?
What about trailing some cover scent like fox urine?
If you are hunting in an area that is pressured and hunter A is using brand Xfox urine as cover scent. Hunter A spooks a deer while hunting, this was the mature deer you were hunting. Now the deer knows brand Xfox urine is bad, and may alter his travel route.
They above may happen it may not, my questions is why chance it?
06-26-2007, 12:35 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
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RE: best early season scent
ORIGINAL: Germ
ORIGINAL: huntingson
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
Was that really that confusing? Oh well, one more wasted joke. Certainly won't be the last.
06-26-2007, 12:45 PM
#29
Boone & Crockett
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RE: best early season scent
ORIGINAL: huntingson
Joking gentlemen. I was just poking fun at the apparent need some have for scents these days. My thought is to always make as small an impact on the woods as possible. No scents for me.
Was that really that confusing? Oh well, one more wasted joke. Certainly won't be the last.
ORIGINAL: Germ
ORIGINAL: huntingson
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
I am planning on having Germ send me a t-shirt he has worn for several days in a row to the gym and drag it around. The deer are sure to just give up knowing that nothing but death can await them anywhere the Germ has been.
Was that really that confusing? Oh well, one more wasted joke. Certainly won't be the last.
06-26-2007, 12:47 PM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2007
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RE: best early season scent
So far I go with none until around the rut.
I've given some thought to the cover scent thing. We have a lot of coons, so that would probably be my choice, especially since they like to climb trees.
BUT, here's the rub, either the deer will pick out my human scent or not. The only way these cover scents would seem to work is if it distracts or otherwise fools the deer's nose, kind of like deodorant without antipersperant or taking a French bath (FYI, dousing yourself in cologne).
But isn't a whitetails nose more sophisticated that that? Would you agree that your level of scent (standing alone) will determine whether a deer is alerted to your presence, regardless of a cover scent? So exactly how is a cover scent going to help if a deer finds the trail to my deer stand?
NOTE: This is not the high level physics type thing you guys have been prone to discussing with Quick and his speed freak bow.
I've given some thought to the cover scent thing. We have a lot of coons, so that would probably be my choice, especially since they like to climb trees.
BUT, here's the rub, either the deer will pick out my human scent or not. The only way these cover scents would seem to work is if it distracts or otherwise fools the deer's nose, kind of like deodorant without antipersperant or taking a French bath (FYI, dousing yourself in cologne).
But isn't a whitetails nose more sophisticated that that? Would you agree that your level of scent (standing alone) will determine whether a deer is alerted to your presence, regardless of a cover scent? So exactly how is a cover scent going to help if a deer finds the trail to my deer stand?
NOTE: This is not the high level physics type thing you guys have been prone to discussing with Quick and his speed freak bow.