Deer NOSES.......how to block or nullify them?????

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There is a lot you can do to cut down on human scent...avoid scented deodorants/aftershave etc...
Do not use any type of dryer sheets when you wash your hunting clothes...keep them in a sealable, nonporous container with some pine cones etc...
Wear rubber boots (not leather)...don't take salami and garlic sandwiches to your stand...!

Supplemental Zinc tablets will help reduce natural body odors...

 

[rsallen]

LOL,
Leave some food in the garden plot.

 

[dusty3030]

When you move it, put it 15 / 20 yds further back in the woods too. Deer don't like to be in the open so much, you will be amazed what deer (especially bucks) skirt around your plot downwind to check it out during the day. You will never see them if you aren't back in the woods a little. Also uses some of the natural cover to cover you a little better, deer don't like human looking things in trees that move.

If they have thinned out in the fall / early winter they switched food sources on you - they are pigging out on the mast crops. Scout and look for sign and hunt where they are and not where they were. They eat 8 to 10lbs of forage a day, they walk around and browse - they don't just sit in one spot and pig out and go back to bed.

In the fall when you find an oak tree dropping acorns with fresh tracks and droppings get a comfortable folding chair, set if downwind, and sit behind a tree and wait. Bowhunting use a stand, but rifle or muzzleloader I like to be mobile and have a little turkey hunting stool I use most of the time. When the acorns are gone they will move back the food plots.

Learn to rattle, do it boldly - like stomp the ground, kick your feed around, make some noise like they are rolling around MMA style, and be sure to grunt at the same time - then be dead still and watch downwind. Could take 1/2 an hours but watch and wait. If one comes to check it out they will be in full sneak mode and you have to keep your eyes open. It really is fun way to spend mid day and a real rush when a buck pops out of nowhere.

Last but not least, good luck. Luck is half of deer hunting, the other half is being in the right place at the right time. The rest of it is just stuff we do to entertain ourselves

 

[nickc]

i have a low stand in an area where the wind swirls consistently i've had great luck where you aren't supposed to.. i use hunter specialties earth scent wafers. they seem to work great. worth a try for $5.00

 

[Western]

None of the "stuff" designed to take your money will work better than just plain ole playing the wind. Always good to have two places to hunt on your food plot, that lets you hunt the wind.

Deer live their 365 days a year, really think fox urine, dirt "smell", or other "unusual" scents, will not be noticed by a deer? Would you notice a new couch in your living room? Your better off and cheaper to either use dirt from your plot or pine/ cedar boughs, anything natural to YOUR environment, then rub that on your clothes, or store your hunting clothes in a bag with same..

 

[Thomas]

Might not be the perfume your wearing.
As you patterning deer they could be patterning you..time you arrive also your habits.
Have you done 50 yard so walk about inside wood line seen new signs?

 

[AaronS]

Hunt the wind. Either move the stand or hand a second in a different location.

 

[Boeing]

Thanks guys.....After a few days of hunting areas, stands etc.....I spread more lime, cut more firewood and left. Back in March to lime, fert, disk and plant deer food. (They love me) My hunting buddy (who is a great stalker) crept thru the woods and discovered a bedded buck not 75 yards from my building. Later we went into that area and found many rubs and flattened out bedding areas. It is a slightly dropping small locust (I hate those thorns) and pine thicket. Lots of pine needles fairly open (a 20-40 yard shot) but how to hunt it? I would guess they go there after their morning meal (or overnight meal) I don't creep as well as my younger friend. Do you get there at 6AM and shiver until they come to bed at 9 or 10? My stand problem is GETTING there....the only path is FROM the NW, where the wind is. And of course, LEAVING it too....one path. Guess I need to MOVE that stand.

 

[Keadog]

I have fallen for many false claim products, but after 2 seasons, I believe the Ozonics is at least partially effective. Ozone has been used for years commercially as an odor treatment. This in combination with obsessive scent control (I bath in unscented soap all hunting season, use unscented, non-UV laundry detergent, washing all of my inner hunting outfits after every hunt, I'm a non-smoker, etc.). These items notwithstanding, one simply cannot fool their noses. I also try very hard to always hunt the wind and avoid stands when the wind isn't right. If you are on your property all the time with equipment, the resident animals will grow to tolerate some background scent of yours, but probably not in areas you don't frequent normally. My wife drives me to my stand in our Ranger, as they are used to seeing it all the time and she picks me up after dark. If you can get someone to drop you off at your stand, try that. It also is far better than tromping through the woods getting overheated. Walking in after dark isn't as important, but I often have deer around that get run off when she comes back out in the Ranger.
Good luck. Bowhunting is sooo much fun...

 

[Boeing]

Thanks Keadog.....good advice. I'm usually alone so no "taxi service". Also, I go to my land about 8 days or so every 2 months so the critters are not really used to me or my tractor smells..... I mow, disk, work the road, cut firewood, drive to/from the little town on my mile long gravel drive....so I am very evident and odiferous. The road is along the south boundry....the field is on the NW corner of my 70 acres (with hundreds of wooded acres around me).....I'm not around the "main" deer woods. When I go into the woods I do try to kill odor and walk quietly but that's about it.