patrickg
Veteran Member
Redman
Do I hunt? Not recently but I have with pistol, rifle, bow. I have been invited on bow and arrow boar hunts as "safety man"/insurance for prudent hunters (I used a M1 Carbine with "banana" clips but never fired a shot) Walked a lot of miles trying (now this reveals my stupidity or hudspuh or SOMETHING) to bag antelope (pronghorn) with a longbow.
Do I wear treated clothes while hunting deer? Well, no but mostly because I haven't hunted deer since knowing how to treat the clothes. I have so many deer bedding down on my place that it would be more properly called harvesting rather than hunting. Hunting implies a certain degree of uncertainty in the location of your quary. This would be more like going to the garden and "hunting" a tomato in the middle of the tomato section.
Does the odor eventually go away? Gee, does it go away or do we get used to it? Well, there are petroleum distillates in the stuff I use. It smells pretty much of the lab and refinery when the clothes are still damp, hence the warning about using a gas or electric dryer, probably not safe. When very thoroughly dried, I can't smell the stuff or at least don't smell it "above" the detergent's perfume and the fabric softener perfume. I'm a non-smoker with a fair sense of smell.
If you prelaundered your hunting clothes with perfume free detergent and treated it with only enough permethrin for a few weeks rather than a year and let it air dry thoroughly then dried it in the dryer it would be about the best compromise. Alternatively if you have access to the area you intend to hunt in advance of the season, hang some treated clothes/rags, previously washed with your regular detergent, in good hunting areas and put out some salt and corn or feed. Couldn't hurt to condition some of the population to think of the odor of your detergent and permethrin (if it has an odor) as being associated with good eats.
Patrick
Do I hunt? Not recently but I have with pistol, rifle, bow. I have been invited on bow and arrow boar hunts as "safety man"/insurance for prudent hunters (I used a M1 Carbine with "banana" clips but never fired a shot) Walked a lot of miles trying (now this reveals my stupidity or hudspuh or SOMETHING) to bag antelope (pronghorn) with a longbow.
Do I wear treated clothes while hunting deer? Well, no but mostly because I haven't hunted deer since knowing how to treat the clothes. I have so many deer bedding down on my place that it would be more properly called harvesting rather than hunting. Hunting implies a certain degree of uncertainty in the location of your quary. This would be more like going to the garden and "hunting" a tomato in the middle of the tomato section.
Does the odor eventually go away? Gee, does it go away or do we get used to it? Well, there are petroleum distillates in the stuff I use. It smells pretty much of the lab and refinery when the clothes are still damp, hence the warning about using a gas or electric dryer, probably not safe. When very thoroughly dried, I can't smell the stuff or at least don't smell it "above" the detergent's perfume and the fabric softener perfume. I'm a non-smoker with a fair sense of smell.
If you prelaundered your hunting clothes with perfume free detergent and treated it with only enough permethrin for a few weeks rather than a year and let it air dry thoroughly then dried it in the dryer it would be about the best compromise. Alternatively if you have access to the area you intend to hunt in advance of the season, hang some treated clothes/rags, previously washed with your regular detergent, in good hunting areas and put out some salt and corn or feed. Couldn't hurt to condition some of the population to think of the odor of your detergent and permethrin (if it has an odor) as being associated with good eats.
Patrick