New rubber boots stink! how to descent?

[Follower]

I bought a new pair of Lacrosse boots a few weeks ago and they still smell like new rubber - I guess they are still degassing.  Anybody have any tricks to descent these things?

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

Scrub them with a water and baking soda paste .


Jack

[Danny J]

Wow, I just posted the same problem Follower.

[Follower]

I scrubbed them like Jack suggested.  I'll let you know how it works.

[woodsman 365]

I bought a pair of rubber boots last fall and they still have a strong rubber smell today. I only use them for other reasons than hunting.

[Danny J]

Please let me know Follower. I am looking for some baking soda myself. Thanks for the idea Jack.

[jhg]

Don't forget the insides. I'd try alcohol too. Something to remove the mold release. Lots of times that is what smells, not the rubber itself.

Joshua

[Onions]

Take a mixture of:
16oz of Hydrodgen Peroxide
16oz of Distilled H20
1/4 cup baking soda
3 tablespoons of unscented liquid soap.
Mix all indgreints in a bottle expect the soap. Shake vigorously, to make sure all the baking soda dissovles. Wait until the foams goes down then slowly add the liquid soap, while gently stirring.
I've used this to get gas smell out of a pair of leather hunting boots. Worked like a charm!!!
I also use this mixture for my spray scent killer on my hunting clothes. MUCH cheaper then the store bought stuff!

chris <><

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Baking soda does not eliminate scent it absorbs it. Once the baking soda has reached maximum saturation it not only will not absorb anymore scent it will start dispersing some as well.
Most chemical scent eliminators on the market when they say they eliminate human scent they are referring to the same odor we wear deordorant to prevent. In field trials and training exercises for tracking dogs, the type sent after escaped prisoners and lost people, not one commercial scent eliminator worked. All subjects were found. Cover scents had only a little better record.
I don't know if a deer's sense of smell is as good or better than a bloodhounds. I'd say however that if they don't work on dogs they won't work on deer. Especially when you consider that what spooks deer most is the immission from the human body and ALL predators of the hormones and enzymes that are in the body for the digestion of meat. Scents that take a mass spectrometer to detect.
Rubber boots will always smell like rubber, You can use turpentine as a cover scent on them if you hunt near pine trees. I have never seen the smell of rubber spook an animal that was in an area that had a lot of people near by on farms, or small towns. Where the smell has never been encountered by deer it might even be a curiosity lure.
Don't walk right on a deer trail, but to the down wind side of it.Actually to the down wind side of the buck trail that will be to the downwind side of the main trail. Keep the wind in your face and  hunt smart.
Oh and by the by Onions, "unscented" soap is only unscented to us.We humans have a relatively lousey sense of smell. Oh and one more thing, most humans can not smell themselves. Because your own scent is always around you your olfactory center(s) in your brain eliminate it from the data they process. Unless you have extreme B.O. from hard work in the heat and servere lack of personal hygiene. And if you stink so bad you offend yourself you will have been reeking to other humans for a long while before it gets to you.

[Onions]

GReat info Curtiss

chris <><

[Arrow Slinga]

I took a rubber tote filled it mudd so it was at the top of the boots and let then sit in it for a couple of weeks. The rubber absorbed the dirt smell an the rubber smell was gone.

[Stone Knife]

Put them on and go for a hike in the woods, or just wear them and they will clear up on their own.

[hvyhitter]

A few walks to the stand in high wet grass and they get "scrubbed" klean. Gotta be some overgrown ditches in AL to walk through for a half hr or so to get the job done.

[Autumnarcher]

One thing I do with my boots while hunting is step in every pile of cow or hosrse poo I happen across, or if those are not available where you hunt, deer poo, or I step on apples or other fruit dropping from their trees to use as a natural cover scent.


The only thing you need to remember, if you've been stompin cow pies all morning, take your boots off before getting into the camper, tent or truck!

[Follower]

Yea - I know eventually they will stop smelling.  I've worn them on a few walks but they were still strong.  I mixed up a paste of baking soda and water and scrubbed that on.  I left it on and let it dry and sit for a day.  Rinsed them off this morning and it worked a little bit.  

Thanks for the ideas guys.

[Bill Skinner]

Wear them, go walk in mud, let them dry with the mud on.  Next day, hose the mud off.  Repeat if necessary.  I live in post oak, after the second time, all my boots smell like is post oak mud.  You've only got 4 days, better get hot.  Bill

[Follower]

no problem finding mud in Alabama right now.  Rains 4 out every 5 days lately.