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From: roa@davinci.acc.virginia.edu ("Robert O. Anderson Jr")
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Scents
Message-ID: <1991May8.075151.1222@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 12:51:50 GMT
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>Mark O'Shea writes:

>As I stated in a previous posting this will be my first year
>bow hunting for deer.  I am interested now in scents, the book
>I have by Chuck Adams spends five pages on scents.  His general
>conclusion is that the stronger masking scents are useful if not
>mandatory.

>What are your ideas, thoughts, etc?  What do you use and recommend?

      I've had older does spook when using "Tink's 69". The yearlings
seem to be a little curious....cautious, but curious. I've had bucks
walk by "Tink's 69" scent bombs, H.S. Scent wafers, and tarsal glands
>from previous years' doe kills(kept in the freezer) and not seem 
interested at all(all three were out at the same time).
      I've had does come to H.S. Scent apple wafers while hunting in
an old apple orchard. H.S.Scents honey wafer didn't bother the does,
but the bears didn't flock to me, either.
      I tried "Cover Up" one season. Didn't kill a thing.
      Have been using Scent Shield religiously for the last couple
of years. I even brought some in to work and looked at it with a
scanning electron microscope.....1 & 1/4 ounces of baking soda to
1 quart of water....I'll make my own now.
      I read where one of the "pros" said," No scent is the best
scent." I think there's something to that...
      Ricky(huntin' partner) and I have settled to: baking soda
to wash our clothes, baking soda sprinkled over our clothes that
are kept in a large double plastic bag(shoes,gloves,longhandles,etc),
our own "scent shield", and plastic bags over our shoes as we walk
to the stand. Oh, and we don't dress until we're out of the car..where
we're hunting. And maybe a quart of urine....nice and fresh*.

Let's hear from other hunters.......

Bobby

* Still experimenting.....