Cover scents

Vanilla has been used for years I started using it in some of my stuff in the late 80's for all kinds of critters. I am a firm believer in cover scents or I would not make it. But there is NO SCENT that is going to take human odor away. Cover scent only buys you a little time when the critter comes in on the down wind. the thing to understand is when you are calling a critter be it a yote or deer all of the scense's are working on finding what and where the noise is commin from. if that yote gets a wiff of stink it is only going to stand so much maybe 30 sec maybe 1 tenth of a second depends on pressure. urine is a cover but also a attractant and also a calming agent I use alot of urine on my boots but again if I stink!

I test scents all year long. my old stuff gets re-tested every 3 or 4 years and always looking for new.

there is nothing that works 100% all the time.

the reason the dogs find us is they are looking for us. They are looking for the smell be it alot or just a little
but if you notice on windy nights they come in on the down wind side much farther down than on a calm night unless you are makin noise. and many time they will come in on a edge down wind. we do not have enough time to go into this but any bloodhound man will tell you about scent drift. matter fact any rabbit dog man knows that the dogs will track a rabbit down a dirt road on the down wind side of the road when it is windy even though the rabbit was in the middle alot of the time.

Again set up right then the cover is just insurance and not needed
 
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Dead Down wind can be purchased at pretty well any good sporting goods store.



Thanks, I'll check our local places........

John
 
Well I am not sure but I believe that it will for 2 reasons.
1. It kills the human scent
2. It also is a sweet smell that may attract them a bit.
As a child my parents bred and raised rabbits for source of food that they are as well to sell them. When a new litter of rabbits were born he would put vanilla on his hands to kill his scent. If he didn't the mother rabbit would kill the babies and in some cases they would even eat their young. But this occurance NEVER happened when he used Vanilla on his hands. This of course made me think that it would be great for predator hunting and it may well do you right for deer also but I don't know that for any sort of fact just would make sense. Also 2 weekends ago I used the vanilla mixed with my cover scent and the very trail we walked in on brought a yote in and he stopped ever so often to smell the bushes something I have never seen before I assume that it was due to the vanilla I had sprayed on my pant legs.
 
I am NO WHERE near as experienced as some of you guys but

here are my thoughts and kinda simple at that. You cannot

trick a coyotes nose but maybe you can make him slip up

enough to get a shot off. Best thing has been said and

said again put the wind in your face keep it that way going

into your stands. Try to set up where you can bust him

when he trys to go down wind. Don't hunt the stand when

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