anyone use cover scents?

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ohihunter2014

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I 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.
 
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All the time, before I head to the field I always am sure to walk through my feeders, check tanks, and look for an ear down, nothin like the smell of feelot on your boot for an amazing cover scent!
 
If you see fresh cow [beeep]... Don't step in it with one foot... Step in it with both feet
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One guy here was going to coat himself with salmon from the factory he worked at before going cougar calling. Never heard back from him so it may have worked.
 
Originally Posted By: Infidel 762If you see fresh cow [beeep]... Don't step in it with one foot... Step in it with both feet
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I don't just walk in it with both feet... I roll in it
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the only scent control regiment that I have ever had work was to slam a red bull in the truck on the way to a stand while smoking at LEAST one Marlboro, maybe eat some fatty cakes before arrival. then checking the wind and making sure wiley does not get downwind before I give him the business
 
Originally 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 big believer in Padron maduro cover scent. All my hunting clothes smell strongly of it.

- DAA
 
Originally Posted By: SnowmanMoI think that cover scents are designed to attract hunters. They seem to work pretty well.

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Cover scents like rabbit and such work when hung/sprayed at the call.

Dogs and Coyotes have a very sensitive sense of smell. Cover scents don't hide you. Deer may have a difference smelling level but, your not not fooling a coyote.

The filtration level of a Chemical weapons suit is less than a Coyote. Meaning that even dressed in full Ebola suit a dog would still be able to track you. Myth Busters proved this already.
Bomb sniffing dogs and Drug dogs are perfect proof of this.

The thing i do use, is the scent control laundry detergent.

Why?

almost all of the normal stuff has UV Brighteners, and there is some research that says that predators may be able to see that spectrum in some capacity. Note sure, but I use the laundry detergent and then put the camo in the dogs bed until i go hunting.

If you like the spray scent blocker stuff, think about that... As soon as the stand is over, you get in your truck and then you are covered with scent from your truck. Then you get out and this "spray" is supposed to keep you from getting dropping that scent on the next stand? I don't think so.

I took Chemical weapons training for the military.. Think about it like this. You truck seat is a big Chalk bucket, If you were covered in Florecent construction chalk, is a spray going to stop that stuff from dropping off and leaving even a little on the way to your stand and on stand??
 
Originally Posted By: DAAI'm big believer in Padron maduro cover scent. All my hunting clothes smell strongly of it.

- DAA

dave uses the smoke off his cigar to be a constant reminder of exactly where the wind is blowing. for me as long as I didn't have to smell it I don't give a flip if my calling partner took a shower in nothing but old spice. you will not fool a coyote

I had a buddy that spent all this money on a "scent lock" suit. I mean full all out, pants, shirt, jacket, jock strap the whole 9 yards. I then said why in the world am I able to still smell your farts when you have that thing on??
 
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I just got a couple cans of the new nose jammer predator. I use the original stuff deer hunting and it's amazing! I hope this works as well!
 
Here's my take on it.

"Cover" scent it self does NOT work, like said before, they can still smell you.

Now a "lure" is different. They use it for trapping and it helps bring in the animals. Using a lure next to a caller "might" help a time or two but not always. Say you call a coyote and he comes downwind of the caller but stops short of the open where you could get a shot. The lure could help bring him in a few more steps just enough to give you a shot. I keep mine in those bottles deer hunters use with a wick in them and just open it and hang it on a bush next to the caller, that way I don't spray the bush all the time and the coyotes come in long after I'm gone and learn that scent has nothing there.

I'm a big believer of being as "scent free" as possible. I play the wind but at the same time we all know sometimes we get busted. If a coyote picks up my scent I want it to be as weak as possible, leaving the impression that I've been though there but am long gone.

Ever seen a good coon dog work a trail? He first picks up the trail and goes one way then the next before heading out to where the coon went. A dogs brain cannot reason. But his nose told him where to go. Going one way the coon scent got weaker and the other way it got stronger so he knows the stronger it is the closer he was getting to the coon. That's why I want my sent to be as weak as possible. If it helps me just a little and get one chance at a shot then it's worth it.
 
You are right to worry about scent, but cover scents are worthless. Playing the wind right is the most important thing you can do when setting up a stand. My buddy and I always fight over the down wind side. That's where a lot of our dogs will come from. We've seen them pop up at over 1000 yards, and circle us to the down wind side, so they can smell what's going on before they come in. So we always have someone sit facing down wind to catch the smart ones. My buddy and I both smoke, and we never have problems killing yotes. A lot of guys say we won't be able to kill yotes because we stink (it's true we do stink). Lol. We just laugh and say they're our windicators. Haha. So pay more attention to the wind, and don't worry about the cover up sent. I don't know where you hunt at, but here in AZ we plan where we are going to hunt based off what the wind is going to do for the day. If it's blowing from the southwest to the northeast like it usually does in our neck of the woods, we'll plan to hunt ridges and what not starting from the north and work our way south. We like to setup with somewhat of a cross wind, with one guy facing 45 degrees down wind, and the other facing 45 degrees into the wind. It lets us cover a lot of paths they might make on the way in, and it lets us cover our @$$ if one decided to come in down wind. It's a good rule of thumb, but like anything, not always the exception.
 
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