Scent blocker clothing

Ernest II

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I am about spent out on guns and caller and camo but wanted to know if scent blocker or anything else would help my odds pf not getting busted? Im just getting started and Im not doing to well at predator hunting any help appreciated.I have a real hard time figuring which way to enter a stand and setting up.Should I go for broke and get some scent block camo and do you use a cover scent?
Thanks Ernest
 
i would say save your money for gas. do some scouting watch the wind use the sun/shadows to your advantage the terrain. odds are it will hear or see you before it gets a chance to get downwind
 
Ernest II,

This is my opinion only......

I wear a Scentblocker jacket and not because it blocks scent! I wear it when the weather is tolerable because it is a little heavier than a windbreaker.

I dont believe it the hype with scent "blockers" waste of $$ in my opinion and if you set up correctly and shoot the predator before they can get down wind your percentage of kills will increase.

I usually tell the Non educated hunting people that a coyote can smell a fart 400 yards away and they can hear you takeoff your safety at the same if not a greater distance.

I never spray down with scent killer and i dont see myself using it in the future.

Make sure you are constantly watching the downwind side and try making the kill prior to them hitting your scent.



I hope this helps, it is a good question and i am curious too hear other members suggestions and possible remedies too scent control.

Thanks!

Kevin
 
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Scent Blocking clothing is beyond a doubt the biggest scam ever pitched to hunters.Even Barnum & Bailey would have felt guilty about that one.
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Until someone gets a bunch of scent blocker clothing, wraps up a live, pissed off skunk in it, and it don't smell. Then it don't work..
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+1 what the others said.

I have also noticed how cheap, thin and expensive that stuff is.

40 bucks for a skull cap???
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Not in this lifetime.
 
Welll I bought a new set today. Have four now. I buy them because they are comfortable. Spent $400.00. Going calling bear and coyote tomorrow. I also haveunder armor to hot right now that is why I like the scent blocker. Doe's work can't hurt. Boot's and clothes I buy the best most comfortable. Under armor and Danners. Rick
 
Originally Posted By: Ernest III am about spent out on guns and caller and camo but wanted to know if scent blocker or anything else would help my odds pf not getting busted? Im just getting started and Im not doing to well at predator hunting any help appreciated.I have a real hard time figuring which way to enter a stand and setting up.Should I go for broke and get some scent block camo and do you use a cover scent?
Thanks Ernest

Here is a cost saver, Ernest.
Stay hidden on your way in to your call stand
Stay quiet on your way in to your call stand
Watch your down-wind

Ernest, most of the time any given day during daylight hrs. Most coyotes hang around down-wind areas. Areas that "block the wind".
If/when they are not there[on the down-wind]. Then they are in transit from one down-wind area to the next. I've seen this hundreds & hundreds of times. Year after year after year, samo...samo.
Adjust accordinly.
 
I'm gonna go with the other guys on this. An Arizona Game and Fish biologist friend of mine said that predators not only know that you have been there, but for how long. The best thing is to get them close and while they are in sensory overload, drop them. Keep the wind in your favor, stay still, shoot straight. Hunters have been taking predators for a long time, and when you look at the old pics many of them are wearing brighter colors, some of them are even wearing ties and are smoking, and they didn't seem to have problems not having Scent block. Just MHO.
 
While it's not always possible, try quietly entering the area with the wind in your face and set up with the sun behind your back...Some guys hunt with the "Run and Gun" approach and only spend a very short amount of time in a given location...

I know my areas and how wary the Coyotes are in my particular area due to the potential for drawing fire from local farmers and spend more time quietly sitting at a location, before starting to call...But, that's what seems to work best for me in the MO river bottoms and adjacent areas...IN may be totally different...

If you want to try and cover your scent, get a pair of coveralls and roll in a bunch of dust and dead leaves, a little cow manure won't hurt either...It's much cheaper and more likely what they are used to smelling...
 
I believe in sent killer spray a little, it will take the smell right out of a smelly shoe. I use it for deer but I don't use it for predators much, scent blocker clothing is a joke IMHO. The Spray is cheap, the clothing is not. Activated carbon and silver clothing as far as I know has not been scientifically tested by real scientists. I want to see a test using blood hound. I'll bet the canine nose is way to good!

Take Swim Bait's advise.
 
what old Turtle and Kirby say's. be quiet watch the down wind.if a bear or coyote get in your scent line they will smell you. i use Down wind 3d. i work very Hard making call's. i put mad money away for stuff or i wouldnt spend that kind of mone.the other scent lock sets i got very cheap here at sportsmans warehouse. the st i got yesterday is the new cold fusion. all i can say is it cant hurt. only cover scent that ever worked was these skunk pens from Dennis Kirk. they made the coyotes curios . Rick
 
I wear scent blocker gloves. The only reason why is because my Father-In-Law found them at the side of the road. Either the hunter forgot and left them on the hood of his truck or threw them out the window while yelling, "THESE FREAKIN THINGS DON'T WORK!" HA HA!

Brad
 
Quote:I know for a fact that odor eater underwear don't work.

Never knew they made such a thing. Did you try doubling, maybe tripling up on em?

Or were you in fact the smeller and not the smellee?
 
Originally Posted By: doggin coyotesQuote:I know for a fact that odor eater underwear don't work.

Never knew they made such a thing. Did you try doubling, maybe tripling up on em?

Or were you in fact the smeller and not the smellee?

Well, there's not really such a thing but there should be.
 
I heard someone put it this way, if a drug dog can sniff out an ounce cocaine in 5 pounds of coffee a coyote is going to smell you with a few squirts of scent blocker and the expensive clothes. Their nose is just that good. Even if you are wearing all of the latest scent blocking clothes, we often leave things like face, head, neck or hands exposed. And even if we cover up head to toe, there is still our breath to deal with. How many of us drink coffee or eat burritos on the drive to the hunting grounds? Even if the scent blocking products did completely cover my scent, I'm not gargling with dead-rabbit mouthwash.

Use the wind effectively. It's cheaper.
 


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