Are scent blockers worth it-Yotes

Now, I don't live in the city so maybe I am not as smart as you guys who drive 45 miles to work one way...but here goes.

I used to just go out WITHOUT using scent killers of any kind. It got to the point where the yotes would "hit a wall" and run every time I got winded. Now, after a few years of using scent free deodorant, shampoo and soap I have almost been run over by yotes that should have seen or smelled me. Oh yeah, I still get winded from time to time, after walking 5 miles or so you're going to put off a scent, but it gets minimized somewhat and that is an advantage I am willing to exploit. I believe they work to some degree and since they are inexpensive, where's the harm?
 
Rattler.... Did it really take a few years of using these scent free products before the yotes started running you over? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif And did these same scent free products help them to not see you also? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Rattler,
You are right about one thing. Your practice of eliminating as much human scent as possible is certainly not going to do any harm.
 
I just don't understand it? I never take a bath, I smoke on stands, I drink coffee on stands, I pass gas on stands, I have bad breath and BO. But yet the coyotes keep coming? Must be that rabbit/coyote urine I rub all over myself? Hey Rich, maybe I should start selling that stuff, scent free urine?
 
BF,
What I mean is they seem to work. As far as the seeing part I figured the yote was coming up the same trail I did, he should have smelled me (my shoes, something)and looked up and seen me by the time he was w/i 40 yards or so... IF he could have, but he didn't, he closed to about 15 feet WHEN I FIRED TO TURN HIM and that makes me believe these products have some value. Hey, I don't care what you guys use...I am just answering the guy's question based on my experience. I can hunt seven days a week out here, but opt not to because the weekends are full of road hunting yahoos who don't believe in cammo, scent killers or safety. Draw your own conclusions. There is no www.buymystuff.com attached to my posts, either. I am simply telling it the way I see it.
 
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Yo... BillyTheKid...you're a bachelor huh /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I wear scent-lok and practice strict scent control, even more so for coyotes than for deer. Obviously everyone knows that you can't fool a coyotes nose. But where I hunt if a coyote smells me from 150 yards away I will not even have known he was there. But if he has to be within 40 to 50 yards before he can smell me that is a shot I can get off.
This is a discusion that I have seen many times before. Pretty much the eastern hunters and hunters who hunt the "thick stuff" use scent control more so than the western guys who can see for a mile and can take 300+ yard shots.
I suggest that you use it.
 
This is getting a bit ugly. To each his own. Sometimes doing something you think helps will help just because it give you confidance. I think that if a yote smells you after you have used sent killer, you might smell like you are farther away than you really are and they might be a bit more confadent. I don't know but there is no need to get mean over this.
 
...a friend from several years ago, used to laugh at people who used cover scents.

His opinion of their scent usage was that they "smell like a fox sitting in a pine tree peeing on a skunk sitting in an apple tree." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif


JMHO, I think cover scents are a waste of time and money.


Now, if someone could invent a spray that would give a coyote a stopped-up nose so he couldn't smell even a skunk, then the inventor would make a fortune!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
here it is in a nut shell, if hunter x wants to use them then by god use them, if hunter y wants to not use them then that is his right too. The only money being spent is the guy who uses them and well guys, it is his money.

Just a thought...ISDB
 
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