I generally walk about a foot above the ground so I don't let residuals on the grass...weeds, etc. It takes some practice...like instinctive shooting.

I take chlorophyll capsules starting about a month before hunting starts and then throughout the season. I also keep all my hunting clothes in a rubber maid tub that has dried leaf bags in it so it all smells like "woods". Boot's too, and I don't put them on until I step out of the truck.

It doesn't eliminate scent (nothing does), but hopefully reduces it so they may think I'm 200 yards away and not 50. But playing the wind is still priority #1.

I hunt on the ground, so scent management is a must. If you can't yet elevate like Mr. Stout, you have to deal with some issues confronting the rest of us mere mortals:0).

I have multiple ground blinds. Each set up with a particular wind direction in mind. If the wind is not right for a particular blind, I don't hunt it, period.

I try to find a short path and approach each blind from the down wind side. Shallow creeks with water are an option.

Resist the urge to walk the general area. Deer encountering a scent on a single path is one thing. Finding several spots of the scent in the same area is likely to set off all the wrong alarms.

Rubber boots seem to help.

There are scent killing sprays that are effective. One of the best is the non- scented version of Febreze called 'Free Nature'. It contains a particle, I think cyclodextrine, that is a microporous sieve. It collects organic based odors and holds on to them. It is not a masking product, rather it grabs on to the smelly odors associated with humans and won't let them go.

Frequency. I don't hunt the same blind two days in a row unless there was a hard rain. Two or more days of fresh scent or just the noise of human activity can be enough to move deer a hundred yards, making the ground blind location useless for seeing deer until the scent/noise is long gone.

I'm sure others will post things that work for them. Good luck.

play the wind. and use coon cover scent for some reason the deer seam to like the smell of it. they lick the leaves and tree branches i spray it on. when hunting public land i do the same as woods walker. but on private land low pressure deer. I dont worry so much you can get away with a lot more, there not on full alert.

I wear rubber boots and try to walk where the deer don't.

Good one George!

Melvin, Are asking about leaving scent while walking in and out?

I have for years now been spraying my boots and pants legs with a scent away product and then applying coon urine. I only wear these away my vehicle while hunting, and keep them stored in my truck. I've watched feeding, and rutting, deer cross where I walked in with there nose down and have not been busted since I started doing this by any deer that I could see.

I rub deer herd in a stick on the bottom of my boots and on the sides and it works like a champ. I have watched deer hit my trail, sniff and continue unalarmed, it really is good stuff.

My buddies and I were known to take a deer every year or two with the bow back in the late 60's and early 70's, before the experts told us we needed something in a bottle to do it. One of the best bowhunters I knew in the 60's had to work till 4:30, and went to the woods from work. It was rare for him to not get a deer every year.

Wild predators don't have anything to hide their scent except their cunning and understanding of how things work in hunting for food. Be a little more predator oriented and less commercially inclined. Yes....it is amazing that we ever killed anything without Tink's Stink, skunk essence, fox piss or deer dander.

None at all. You can't eliminate it enough to even worry about doing it.

dead skunk at the base of your tree.

Having a general knowledge of the deer pattern in your selected area is a big plus. Knowing daytime bedding areas and morning/evening preferred feeding areas will help you know which way to come in to your stand so youre not crossing travel routes (trails) and scenting up the deer's approach route. I will go well out of my way to even half-circle around my selected stand site to avoid walking through the deer's travel route to my area.

normal scent control methods + deer dander on boots and pant legs

I am looking at trying wood smoke (bee smoker)

Only because its rumored to work well and the my wife likes it better than deer pee.

Hunt into the wind. I don't use scents. Deer communicate with different scent secretions. I don't speak that language. It makes as much sense as babbling the ten poorly pronounced Spanish words that you know in a Mexican biker bar - you could get your butt kicked... I stick to what I know. Only hunt a place on a favorable wind.

I have used a drag rag with success. Saw Ben Lee, from Alabama, use it in the early 90's.

After working a lot with SAR dogs I realized that they can find you even if you used all of the so called "scent elimination/reduction" methods. They can find a body 18ft deep in a lake. They can work a 10 day old scent. Handlers can put gauze in a locked car door edge seam and get enough scent for the dog to use. Predators have scent so they work the wind to their favor.

X 2 fdp I do the best I can to play the wind and leave it at that. I'm thinkin a deer can smell individual scents, so I don't worry about it.

I wear fleece boots, over my hunting boots, and spay them with deer dander. I also wear the felt elastic scent pads and put "Ever Calm" on that. I keep the fleece boots and felt pads in a separate container when I get back to my vehicle.

Wear rubber/rubber bottom boots and try not to rub against brush along trails. Do have some scent eliminator to use up, but I'm not real diligent, so maybe that's why my "memory room" has a lack of "Big Horns"?

"I use xyz animal scent to mask my human scent"

The deer just smell the "xyz" scent in ADDITION to your human scent.

We can smell the burgers grilling at McDonalds...animals can smell the burgers grilling at McDonalds too...and also the lettuce, tomato, mayo and sesame seed bun.

Absolutely none. I've watched bucks walk up and sniff the arrow I put in the ground from my stand just to do my first shot at a leaf or twig. Even had a few lick the fletch.

I had just touched that arrow with my bare hands, so how my boots passing through the grass is gonna scare them away is a mystery to me.

Tweed you are so right! Yet, somehow, time after time, I've had deer following the "scents" I had on my over shoes without spooking:>) I'd say that minimized my ground scent.

I will not say it is impossible to fool a deer's nose but I don't think I can ever totally do it. Of course, you should always hunt the wind. We have a lot of cows on our property. I always hunt in rubber boots. Before entering the hunting area, I try to find the most fresh, still very moist cow pie and step in it with both feet. Deer in our area are around cows constantly and certainly around cow pies. It works for me, sometimes.

Keep hunting clothing and rubber boots in a rubber maid container. Never put them on till you're at your hunting spot and take em off before you leave. Never walk deer trails and never walk in high weeds if you can keep from it. Guys are gonna tell you how they kill deer smoking while wearing their work boots and purple clothing. Ask em how many mature bucks they kill. Betting their answer will be we dodn't have mature bucks where I hunt,lol. Remember this when you lose confidence, almost every patch of woods in this country has mature bucks. Some are bigger than others but all mature.

From what I've heard from dog handlers is you can do nothing. The issue is dead skin cells falling and that's what animals key on.

raghor knows what he are speaking about.

Scent shield or the equivalent types out there. Stay clean all you can do as much as you can.

Or you can pick up road kills like a brother does and then you won't have to worry about it. You might like blood soaked meat? I don't know.LOL

I found in baited areas the animals associate with human activity and they aren't alarmed as much. Especially around housing developments they have smelled everything know to man.LOL

I got a friend that cut timber all day. When he get off work he get his bow and go hunting with the same cloth and boots on. He get deer, and elk hunting this way. He said you got to use the wind.

Lets think predator.

Do wolves leave scent? ... yep

Do mountain lions leave scent?...yep

Either one use any kind of scent control? nope

Nothing against scent control , I use it.

But the key is to hunt smart. Best scent control you have is between your ears if you use it.

I zip line in to the blind from a 150 yards out.

My labs and pointing dogs would get out of the house on the wife and run full bore to my different tree stands or ground blinds even if I kept my burleys clean. Used to use fox urine with some success and had fox follow me up. Also used mink urine when I raised them.I love to play the winds. It's fun to listen to weather reports and plan strategies. Most of my problems on ground blinds is they come in too close and they look at me like I'm a baby elephant in there woods.lol. I like to watch my wind string too.

Pour some of that blue ribbon on your jeans and troll through the Wally World.

I made an apple juice vanilla spray for my boots when hunting the wife's family farm in Michigan. I can not say for sure if it helped.

No one here for Nose Jammer?

Hands down Fox Piss on your boots... I walk on the trails and for the last 30 years I have never had deer young or old spook from my ground scent. I have witnessed boone and crockett whitetails eat soybeans where I have walked less then a hr getting to my stand. If I have to touvh branches I will spray a little on my hands and on trails walking through brush ill spray a little on my arms and shoulders.

If we hunt in a area where joggers and other are using the forest all year the deer don't care. We have a state park here and the deer are just standing there looking at you, from 15-20 yards. All the hunting shops around here are making good money on siente block things and cammo gear. Guess I will have better luck in exercise gear this autumn, sweaty joggers don't do any harm to the deer, this they know. They also know the cammo dressed chemical smelling sneaky one are better to stay away from.

I trap. No way in hell I can be scent-free though I imagine that my gland scents must be confusing to deer. I play the wind.

agree with rag horn; I have been around dogs long enough to know it aint happening,

just fooling yourself

down wind will buy you time

Or you could buy one of those silly looking scent destroying negative ion generating ozone ghost busters backpack gadgets for 2 or 3 hundred bucks. Too many people buying the snake oil these days...

I stopped doing any scent control. Why, because it dont work. Stop believing all the BS commercials, & have more fun in the woods. Hunt the wind properly, Oh, & I still kill just as many deer, maybe more. Mike

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I use ozonics and nose jammer

Put mountain lion dung in strategic locations and it will send the deer running into your arms for safety!

dont touch the ground.

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