Anyone use baking soda any more?

[Friend]

Actually have had my best reults by storing hunting clothes in a garbage bag filled with ample amounts of baking soda. My clothes actually will poof little white clouds when quickly compressed.

Have wasted much money to the masters of marketing in the past. No more!! My old method was superior and still appears much more productive than the fancy scent lok suits.

A few large boxes of baking soda a season is not only 90% cheaper, but I am both confident and convinced that this is a more productive plan.

[Guss]

I have always used baking soda to wash my hunting clothes in...then hang em' outdoors to air dry.

[sputterman]

Heck if the truth be known most of the scent killers on the market today are made of baking soda. Any of you ever get it on ur bows are binos it drys white. I haved used both with and without sucess but        for the baking soda cause you get more for the money.

[bowslinger]

Don't forget to try "limb and pounding device" underarm deodorant with baking soda.  Best scent free deodorant on the market.  Much cheaper than the repackaged "Super Special Secret Formula Hunting" stuff.  Works well on sweaty feet too, I am told.

A very good product for everyday use if you don't like the heavily perfumed deodorants on the market.

In my experience, straight baking soda works as well as the scent killers I have tried, but it tends to dry my skin out a little bit on an extended hunt.

[R. Fletcher]

I wash myself with Ivory soap, wash my clothes with Arm and Hammer scent free detergent with baking soda, air dry them, and store the in a garbage bag sprinkled with baking soda.

[Precurve]

In my earlier years I only used baking soda; washed my clothes in it, stored my clothes in plastic bags with it, showered with it before a hunt.  Then I fell for the commercial hype and used the same methods with the scent cover products.  You can't beat using the wind, but I think I had better results when I used only the baking soda.

Dave

[Red Beastmaster]

I hunt the animals upwind of me and don't worry about it. I used to get all stressed out about scent control then I realized there isn't a whole heck of a lot you can do to fool a deer's nose. An animal that can smell an acorn under 2' of snow can surely smell you regardless of how you try to cover it.

[Night Wing]

It depends on the area where I'm going to be bowhunting.

Example. I live in the piney woods of southeast Texas and this is where I do a lot of my bowhunting.

I take a plastic garbage bag and fill it 1/3 full with pine needles and oak leaves. Then I put my hunting clothes and foot apparel in the bag on top of the pine needles and oak leaves. Then, I put more pine needles and oak leaves on top of my clothes. Then I zip tie the bag shut.

After my clothes have been in the bag for a week, when I take the clothes (and foot apparel) out of the bag and wear said apparel, I smell like the forest floor.

This way; deer and feral hogs don't smell me.

[Bill Carlsen]

I ALWAYS re-rinse my hunting clothing, underware and towels in a baking soda rinse. I have not tried using it on my body but my clothes smell like "fresh air" especially if I can hang them on the clothesline.

[Recurve50 LBS]

What would be the proper steps to washing your clothes with baking powder? Would you still use laundry soap? LAst few years I've been washing my clothes with regular laundry soap and then letting them hang on the line outside for several days. But I can get a faint scent of the soap, my neighbor's cigarete smoke...etc etc

[BRITTMAN]

Larry dont use detergent with the baking soda . I use about 1/4 box baking soda pour on clothes dry  , run thru a normal hot or cold cycle , hang out to dry , store in trash bag . Simple but effective  

[Recurve50 LBS]

Thank you Brittman. Gonna wash my clothes tonight since it's raining here tonight and tomorrow.

[Flingblade]

Originally posted by Recurve50 LBS:
[QB] What would be the proper steps to washing your clothes with baking powder? QB]

Larry,  Be sure to use baking soda, not baking powder.  
Gary

[Missouri Bowman]

Still use it and its cheap

[Terry Lightle]

Yep,for many years

[joe skipp]

Baking soda absorbs odors...never use it. Just my opinion after 43 yrs of bowhunting.

[sweet old bill]

I have for years always had several boxs of baking soda around the house and deer camp. You can use for medical reasons, brush teeth, always wash the hunting togs in it, and also I carry some in a zip lock bag, so if I sweat up on the way to the blind I can use under arms etc...

[TRAD101]

over the years I have also tried it all,and have
come to the conclusion that the only way to control our human odor is with the wind, there are products I am sure that help but I don't think it matters to the deer if he smells you or if he kinda smells you, he's gone.

[MikeW]

Originally posted by joe skipp:
Baking soda absorbs odors...never use it. Just my opinion after 43 yrs of bowhunting.

You don't even look 43 in that picture.
   

[FOXXNTROUT]

cover yourself in doe urine....


kidding.

Baking soda works great. pour some in your boots as they dry from a previous days hunting as well. Seems to help kill that food odor.