Yeah, I Smoked My Clothes

[Terry Green]

Sam, I grew up hunting farm land like that, not talking about yard pets.....

Same river and bottom lands as the Thompson boys back in the day, the very land........  my Scent freak buddy gave up on it after I killed my limit of 5 back in the early 80s during bow season to his zero the 1st year and 1 the second...

Scent lock mentality 1 - ZERO Scent control 10.

We bordered GA Cumberland Academy,  2.4 miles from the courthouse in PODUNK Calhoun GA. Calhoun is a country town and much more so back in the 80s...  But GA Cumberland was a private school... so, back yard or not????

Google maps will show  ya......

[Terry Green]

For those of you that have read my post just above....

 I wonder what did you receive or draw from it? I'm real interested in your answers for a reason thank you...

[Jim Jackson]

Uh,

Someone painted themselves into a corner????

[BAK]

I spent 37 years in law enforcement, and frequently worked with drug dogs.  If you want to believe you can mask your scent, have at it.  Animals with the scenting abilities that dogs or deer or bear have are nothing like our own.  It's been described to me as compartmentalization.  No one scent over powers another, they just smell them all.   

[Terry Green]

BAK, I've heard that before fro k-9 cops, more than once.  It kind of backed up a story I have of my own from a big boar hog that somehow "magically" winded my impervious sheild/gaurd.

[Doug Treat]

I have used smoke effectively for years. I’m not sure exactly why it works but my theory is that the carbon in the smoke, absorbs human scent but it needs to be refreshed often, in my experience. Once a day seems to be good. I once called in and shot a bear from the ground. It was standing 3 yards from me when I shot. I had just sat over a fire and smoked my clothes about 30 minutes before calling in the bear. Call it coincidence, but I can’t imagine that bear’s nose wouldn’t have caught human scent at 3 yards without the smoke.

[Doug Treat]

I’ve also had deer at 5 yards downwind that didn’t spook. They were definitely smelling something (smoke?) as they were putting their noses up and licking their nose to get a better smell. Curious but not spooked.