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Author Topic: My Wool hunting clothes smell....  (Read 737 times)

Offline Gordy

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My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« on: November 07, 2007, 11:37:00 AM »
They don't stink, but what are the best methods for making wool scent free ?

I've washed them twice now and had them outside several nights.
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Offline buckracks7

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2007, 11:43:00 AM »
It's probably the natural wool smell, and doesn't hurt anything.
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Offline JDinPA

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2007, 11:46:00 AM »
It's probably the natural wool smell. I just use the  scent blocker spray.
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Offline Molson

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2007, 11:52:00 AM »
Good wool will not be "scent" free.  You want to get rid of the human odor, not all odor.

I wash mine in scent free soap and hang dry it.  Then I give it a good coating of scent free spray and let dry.  Whenever I go out, I give it another light spray as I put it on. It still smells like wool. Even getting it wet with scent free spray will bring out the wool smell, but any human odors are gone.
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Offline JBiorn

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2007, 12:29:00 PM »
No worries---you just smell like a wet sheep. The Scent Killer "autumn" covers that smell pretty well.
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Offline Blackhawk

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2007, 02:24:00 PM »
What if he's hunting in an area where the deer have never smelled a "wet sheep"?   :bigsmyl:
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Offline Gordy

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2007, 02:29:00 PM »
Good points. Thanks for the info guys.

Have any of you ever done 'smoke camoflage' on your wool ?
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2007, 06:53:00 PM »
I think wet sheep are indigenous to all ares   :bigsmyl:
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2007, 07:06:00 PM »
I reckon he could just get some woolly chaps and a woolly vest and just hang out amongst them. Just hope someone doesn't "fall in love" with him!

 Seems to me that wet sheep are just EVERYWHERE unfortunately.
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2007, 08:23:00 PM »
My wool stinks too. Its not wet sheep, just stinky me.
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2007, 08:30:00 PM »
good luck
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2007, 08:51:00 PM »
I love wool, but that's the reason I don't wear it. There's no way to control the scent. That's why I love synthetics...They don't hold odor, and are easy to wash and dry...

This year I've been wearing Sitka Gear exclusively    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2007, 09:36:00 PM »
If they're clean, you might try putin' the clothes in a plastic bag with some pine boughs and lettin' 'em sit fer a while.
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(I like it better than buffalo dung)
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2007, 09:46:00 PM »
I leave my wool on the line out side in the rain & snow.  It never comes in from August to Januray.  I'll rotate sets under the cover of the porch as my dry gear.  That seems to work for me and the deer...Doc

 
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2007, 11:11:00 PM »
I don't think the deer really care. I had a bunch downwind of me tonight and they just kept doing their thing. I didn't get a shot, but it had nothing to do with being winded. They just didn't walk into my shooting lanes...well, okay a little buck did, but I am not shooting the 1 1/2 year olds.
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2007, 11:17:00 PM »
You can take the wool off of the sheep, but you can't take the sheep off the wool !   :scared:
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Offline Legolas

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2007, 06:08:00 AM »
The owner of Rancho Ghille suits had a wild suggestion when I said the burlap had a smell and I wanted to know how to get rid of it-- bury it!  :scared:   He said deer have their noses in dirt all day looking for food.Leave it in old mother earth a few weeks and she would take care of it.

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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2007, 08:21:00 AM »
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Synthetics can hold a lot of bacteria and odor more than natural fibers.  At least that is my experience and what I have read based on my other passion for endurance sports.  If stink gets embedded in synthetics it is over.  You really need to stay on top of that stuff.

I agree with you though, Sitka is top notch stuff.  Finally a company looked at other sports for precedence.  Gotta tap all of those resources.
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2007, 08:30:00 AM »
Legolas -

I do something similar.  I put my hunting clothing in the big 18 gallon containers with leaves and dirt in there.  The leaves right now are giving off a sweet smell  that just gets right in the material.  Works like a charm for me so far.  And you know the smell comes from where you hunt.
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Re: My Wool hunting clothes smell....
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2007, 09:56:00 PM »
I once read on a website that 100% wool will not hold odors. I myself have only hung out in fresh air with the occasional dead down wind spray on just in case and I wear my wool from first frost to april. I love it and have all brands from columbia to sleeping indian. When it gets dirty with blood or mud I just let it dry and knock of the nasties. More important is the base layer and tucking pants into the knee high boots so that dead skin cells that are shed continueously are contained and not spilled out on the ground to and from our stand locations.
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