Hunting Clothes and scent control

[MS 9x56]

I do shower with scent free soap but for hunting clothing I hunt the wind.

 

[SCCWP]

I am new to hunting where would I find a good book or pointers on scent control for hunting deer. I have 20 acres of private land to hunt on and am just starting.

 

[MS 9x56]

There are numerous books and articles but the truth is you cannot beat a deers nose. Hunt with the wind in your face and you will have much more succes that tying to beat a deers nose. Pack your hunting clothes in pine branches or leaves of a type that are found in the area you hunt. Shower before each hunt with scent free soap. Wash your hunting clothing in scent free and UV free detergent. That is the best you can do. Try to keep the wind in your face. Nothing and I mean nothing else works. Good luck in your future hunts, try to set up your stand with wind in your face and back to a direction deer are unluckily to approach from.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I am new to hunting where would I find a good book or pointers on scent control for hunting deer. I have 20 acres of private land to hunt on and am just starting.

See post #13.

If by scent control you mean reducing your scent, don’t attempt it. I wish I had someone give me that advice 25 years ago. Instead of learning about how a deer’s nose works, thermals, and topography, I focused on “scent products”. I fed entirely into the marketing narrative. Hunting media features models modeling scent control products. If you want to be a hunting product consumer, by all means, play along. If you are interested in becoming a more proficient hunter, tune it all out.

Here is a primer:

Understanding Thermals in Whitetail Country

When you hunt elk at elevation, thermals are always on your mind. In the whitetail woods, that’s usually not the case. Thermals in the high country are almost as predictable as ocean tides, creating noticeable updrafts in the morning and downdrafts in the evening. In the whitetail woods, you...

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Also,

How to Wind Map a Hunting Property

Everyone knows that a whitetail’s greatest line of defense is their nose. Everybody also knows that while deer hunting, you need to keep the wind in your face. Savvy hunters take it a step further and find ways to keep the wind in their favor, even when the deer think the wind is in theirs. By...

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[Wolfshead]

Understand how to play the wind.
Understand how deer use the wind.
I wash my clothes in Astko sports wash and maybe some dead down wind or scent killer gold.
I am way more concerned with UV brighteners than I am scent reducing detergents, but if I can get some scent off my clothes then I feel that I can at the very least minimize or delay it from getting to their noses?
I wash them after the season is done, and store them in a plastic bag so that house scents like from cooking and such do get into them.
Then I wash them at the beginning of the season, and only if they get really soiled during the season.
I’m always aware of the wind, and its direction. My travel and where I sit are always wind directed.
As others have said learn how the wind works now, and you’ll be ahead of the game later on.