anyone use cover scents?
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Like mentioned earlier, a dogs nose is much for complex. Personally I don't use a cover scent, like Skinny and others have said using natural scents as cover is great and easy. Ive done the S**t on boots plenty of times on ranches and had good success. Lures are great!! A buddy back home used to use Skunk Lure, just crack open the bottle and set it beside him. Another popular one is glands from dang near any trapping supply store.
Just my 0.02. Good luck.
Just my 0.02. Good luck.
muskrat30
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Originally Posted By: SnowmanMoOriginally Posted By: ohihunter2014I got a few bottles of coon and red fox pee cause it was 1.99 on sale. anyone use anything like this for a cover scent?
does it work or scare them off.
I once had a biologist explain it to me this way: Ever walk into a kitchen while your mom was cooking? Ever notice how you can smell many of the different ingredients? Cover scents will work the same way. If you spray urine on you then a coyote is going to come into the are and say, "gee, there is a human around here that got peed on."
Anyone who has hunted with bird dogs probably has had their dog get sprayed by a skunk. The smell is pungent and pervasive yet the bird dog can continue to hunt. The dog is still able to pick up on bird smells even through the smell of the skunk.
In my early days of predator hunting I tried the scent thing. Never seemed to make much difference. If predators were so scared of human scent then they wouldn't go near farms or neighborhoods. But they do. Do I want to run around advertising that a human is on the stand? No. I walk straight out, place my call and walk straight back. I watch the wind and try to work it in my favor. I know that coyotes in particular will often try to swing downwind. So I use that and set up my KZ where I think that they might pop up in the wind. But I have been out with plenty of guys that smoke and I have been on plenty of deer and elk hunts where the refreshments of the night before come back to haunt us on that morning's stand.
I think that cover scents are designed to attract hunters. They seem to work pretty well.
I'm in this camp.
does it work or scare them off.
I once had a biologist explain it to me this way: Ever walk into a kitchen while your mom was cooking? Ever notice how you can smell many of the different ingredients? Cover scents will work the same way. If you spray urine on you then a coyote is going to come into the are and say, "gee, there is a human around here that got peed on."
Anyone who has hunted with bird dogs probably has had their dog get sprayed by a skunk. The smell is pungent and pervasive yet the bird dog can continue to hunt. The dog is still able to pick up on bird smells even through the smell of the skunk.
In my early days of predator hunting I tried the scent thing. Never seemed to make much difference. If predators were so scared of human scent then they wouldn't go near farms or neighborhoods. But they do. Do I want to run around advertising that a human is on the stand? No. I walk straight out, place my call and walk straight back. I watch the wind and try to work it in my favor. I know that coyotes in particular will often try to swing downwind. So I use that and set up my KZ where I think that they might pop up in the wind. But I have been out with plenty of guys that smoke and I have been on plenty of deer and elk hunts where the refreshments of the night before come back to haunt us on that morning's stand.
I think that cover scents are designed to attract hunters. They seem to work pretty well.
I'm in this camp.
Sorry to bump this, but I'm curious about something and wasn't able to find exactly the information I'm seeking through the search feature-
Basically, just got a new puppy and I'm wondering if purposely getting a little of his liquid accidents on my decoys and/or E caller would HURT anything?
I always set up with a crosswind and the EC between 30-50 yards out.
Basically, just got a new puppy and I'm wondering if purposely getting a little of his liquid accidents on my decoys and/or E caller would HURT anything?
I always set up with a crosswind and the EC between 30-50 yards out.
when I see coyote poop I rub my boot bottoms in it....I also use scent tubes one rabbit urine & one coyote/fox urine.......rabbit by call coyote scent tube by me and dog usually or both by call.......again no masking is intened only a bit of scent realism used to MAYBE add a few lingering seconds for a shot.....good luck!
Kizmo
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Originally Posted By: SnowmanMo
I walk straight out, place my call and walk straight back.
Quoted for emphasis. I think that, of all the ways coyotes can detect humans, smelling us is the most likely to set off their alarm bells, followed by seeing us, with hearing us being a distant third. I think it is a mistake to take a long hike into a place leaving a long scent trail in an effort to be stealthy. Remember, that scent trail doesn't just sit there, it gets blown around too, just like a running ink line on a wet piece of paper. My cat (who has a little bobcat in his DNA woodpile) can hear my Hummer crank up at work over 1/2 mile from my house. I am sure a coyote can hear it from a mile away. I hunt out of the back of my truck at night, and sometimes even during the day because it is camo'd. In any event, I rarely walk more than 200 yards into a daytime stand, most times a lot less.
I walk straight out, place my call and walk straight back.
Quoted for emphasis. I think that, of all the ways coyotes can detect humans, smelling us is the most likely to set off their alarm bells, followed by seeing us, with hearing us being a distant third. I think it is a mistake to take a long hike into a place leaving a long scent trail in an effort to be stealthy. Remember, that scent trail doesn't just sit there, it gets blown around too, just like a running ink line on a wet piece of paper. My cat (who has a little bobcat in his DNA woodpile) can hear my Hummer crank up at work over 1/2 mile from my house. I am sure a coyote can hear it from a mile away. I hunt out of the back of my truck at night, and sometimes even during the day because it is camo'd. In any event, I rarely walk more than 200 yards into a daytime stand, most times a lot less.
RJM Acres
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I am a walking cover scent.
Got new camo this year and 1st thing I did was hang it outside on the clothes line for
a few weeks just to get the new clothes smell off it.
After that I did my normal chores and it smells pretty ripe now.
It smells like wood smoke, male billy goat, dogs, baby goats, placenta, coyote and bobcat, ripe hillbilly and on and on.
It's not allowed in the house anymore.
I'm sure it still smells like human but all those scents have got to be confusing to the wild life.
Got new camo this year and 1st thing I did was hang it outside on the clothes line for
a few weeks just to get the new clothes smell off it.
After that I did my normal chores and it smells pretty ripe now.
It smells like wood smoke, male billy goat, dogs, baby goats, placenta, coyote and bobcat, ripe hillbilly and on and on.
It's not allowed in the house anymore.
I'm sure it still smells like human but all those scents have got to be confusing to the wild life.
Kizmo
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Originally Posted By: RJM AcresI am a walking cover scent.
Got new camo this year and 1st thing I did was hang it outside on the clothes line for
a few weeks just to get the new clothes smell off it.
After that I did my normal chores and it smells pretty ripe now.
It smells like wood smoke, male billy goat, dogs, baby goats, placenta, coyote and bobcat, ripe hillbilly and on and on.
It's not allowed in the house anymore.
I'm sure it still smells like human but all those scents have got to be confusing to the wild life.
I always think about the issue in terms of cover scent. Never thought about what a veritable orchestra of them might do.
That suit might just knock them over without you even having to fire a shot.
Got new camo this year and 1st thing I did was hang it outside on the clothes line for
a few weeks just to get the new clothes smell off it.
After that I did my normal chores and it smells pretty ripe now.
It smells like wood smoke, male billy goat, dogs, baby goats, placenta, coyote and bobcat, ripe hillbilly and on and on.
It's not allowed in the house anymore.
I'm sure it still smells like human but all those scents have got to be confusing to the wild life.
I always think about the issue in terms of cover scent. Never thought about what a veritable orchestra of them might do.
That suit might just knock them over without you even having to fire a shot.