Scent Control???

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redbarron6

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Being new at the coyote game I would like some opinions on scent control. For Deer hunting I use a HS Scent Scent proof bag to store my hunting clothes and other gear in. TO help cover the Hunam scents I use dirt scented detergent to wash them and fresh earth drier sheets and place fresh earth scent wafers in the bag with I put my clothes away. This seems to work pretty good for deer. Has anybody used the approch for coyote and cat hunting. If so did you get good results?
 
Hi redbarron6,
I myself use total scent control (or at least my best)but I don't use earth scents and NO driers. I let all my cammies/equiptment air dry. Before I get into the truck I spray down the drivers, passenger seat, and the rear seat where most of my equiptment is traveling from one location to another. When I get out of the vehicle I then again spray down my hands, pants, boots(not to forget the souls) and anything else I might have contaminated once I was in the vehicle. I go through alot of scent elimination spray, I purchase it by the gallon.
Once finished hunting for the day I encase all my rear in plastic bags or necessary air them out them in a plastic bag.
Thats' what I do, for what's worth.
 
I agree w/ total scent control. I use all of the afore mentioned methods except spraying my truck seats w/ no scent spray, but think this a good idea. I wear a scent lock suit and use cover scent at my stands. Some other coyote hunters I know have the opinion that you do not need to employ scent control measures to hunt coyotes and razz me about wasting my time. I do however see and shoot more coyotes than them. Coincidence? I think not. Is all the same to me, I will just let them waste their time in the field. Hopefully they will eventually give up thinking coyote hunting too difficult. Then I will have my laugh.
 
I use to use the "skunk" stuff for masking, but anymore I don't use anything, for I always hunt into the wind and I pick a spot where the critters can not come in behind me.

But the good ole basic "skunk" I think is the best. This has got me thinking, gee, I haven't washed my insulated camo suit for 3 years. Guess it's about due.
 
Hey guys, I went to the calling clinic held at a local sporting goods store Saturday. The guy giving the clinic is a Primos Pro Staffer. He said that sent control does not matter and that we should be calling with the wind at our back - all of this about floored me :eek:
I have watched hour after hour of videos and all of them have said just the opposite.
I have had no luck hunting dogs when the wind is at my back and I am not useing sent controll or a cover.
Just thought I would tell you what a PRO??? said.
 
That was interesting. There were a few things that he said that I disagree with. The one statement that he made about coyotes still denning at the end of July was funny.
 
Ok, I have read all about scent control but there is one thing that I have never seen on this board. What about your gun smelling? When I open my gun case all I can smell is solvent and oil. Don't you think the Coyote can smell it better than I can? Just something I have wondered about.

Rusty Elam
 
For what its worth:
I use the earth scent stuff; put the scent (liquid) in a black plastic trash bag and then put my clothes that I will wear in the bag, including shoes. I also put my rifle and Glock M-20 in a similar bag within 24 hours of my morning departure to cover "normal gun smells". My hat, gloves and mask are in another bag in my hunting gear bag with the same earth scent.

Does all this work? It seems to, I have coyotes running by me (within 4-6 feet!) from behind on the way to my Enticer or other decoy or on the way to the FoxPro, when I use it. I have seen coyotes walk on my approach trail and not run away.

Just a thought....
 
I shot a coyote last year that was straight downwind of me at less than 30 yards. She stood broadside and watched me ease the gun to my shoulder and shoot. Did the same thing to one this year at about 50 yards. She came trotting right up to FOUR of us with the wind in her favor. Ya think they didn't smell me/us? I think my Zest and "Truck Cab" cover scent must have been working overtime! BS, of course they smelled us. Sometimes they just don't CARE! It's not the fancy cover scent or any crap like that, they don't care or it doesn't bother them. These creatures have relied upon their noses to find food and avoid danger for millions of years. That much fine-tuned evolutionary genius is way more than a match for whatever we can dream up in a lab somewhere or roll around in on the way to the stand. Drug dogs can smell cocaine when it's wrapped in plastic and submerged in gasoline for crying out loud. If a coyote gets downwind of you, it WILL smell you, that's that. The question is - what will it do when it does? Run or keep coming? Stop to smell the human, or bail out at mach 3? When you can answer that, you'll be way ahead in this game. In the meantime, just set up with the wind in your favor and watch your six and be comforatable in the fact that you can't predict a coyote's behavior and every once in a while you will lose one. Oh yeah, have fun doing it... 'Nuf said.
 
Dogn, I believe it is Ed Sceery in his howling for coyotes video that states he calls downwind. He admits it's different than what most experts say but here's his strategy. He shoots them before they smell him. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

When I go to a stand I take wind into consideration, but for the most part I set up according to the sun and the lay of the land. Then I try to figure out which way a coyote will try to circle downwind. Many times this is when I catch them coming in, and I just wait for them to hit one of my predetermined shooting lanes.

Rusty, that's a thought provoking question. You should patent something quick for gun bore scent control, because you know if you don't someone will and they will make their fortune.
 


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