Smoke ?

[ranger 3]

I just traded for a bow that came from a smoker.
How you get rid of the smell on the bow?

[Arwin]

I'd gently wipe it down with PineSol.

[fireball31]

clean it up real good and change the leather handle if it has one.  If its a sealed bow it shouldn't hold that much smell but the grip will.

[ranger 3]

It has a beaver tail grip. Where can I get another one?

[Arwin]

I would place an ad in the classifieds in the "Bow Making Supplies"

[Red Armed Panther]

Black Widow sells beaver tail grips.

[buckeye_hunter]

Murphy's oil soap. Caribow custom archery might have some beaver tail grips.

[tippit]

If you got time leave it on a screened in porch and it will clean itself with freah air.

[Izzy]

Try a baking soda paste on the beavertail.Works for everything else.

[ron w]

Clean the whole thing with Simple Green, then use saddel soap on the grip. It will be as good as new!!

[Clint B.]

I would either keep the beaver wrap and clean it as suggested above or get rid of it, but I wouldn't replace it just because it has been exposed to smoke. If the beaver tail holds the smell of smoke, it will also hold the smell of a sweaty palm. Smoke won't spook a deer nearly as bad as human scent.

[Jedimaster]

A good cleaning, then fresh air and time.  Really air and time alone can do wonders.

[Grey Taylor]

Good luck. I tried a lot of remedies and the only thing to work was time... months of it.

Clint, I suspect he isn't worried about spooking deer so much as not liking the way the bow smells to the archer. When I got my bow it stunk so bad I could hardly hold it.

Guy

[Bjorn]

I got two bows a while back that I washed thoroughly and it still took almost a year to get rid of the odor. No offence to smoker's by the way.

[buckeye_hunter]

We just bought a table from some people that smoked. It was covered in that yellowish film and smelled like smoke. We used Murphy's Oil soap and I honestly can't smell or see any remnants.

-Charlie

[ranger 3]

Thank guys, Clint I'm not worried about spooking deer so much as not liking the way the bow smells to the me. I quiet smoking 12 years and now I don't mind the smoke smell it's self but it is the stale smell it leaves on things, if that makes sense.


Howard

[reddogge]

I bought a WW1 rifle from a friend who lived in a smoking house and the rifle reeked for a while.  It went away after time.  I'd just clean your bow and let it air out for a while, handle and all.

[Clint B.]

Do you guys also avoid sitting around camp fires?   ) Just kidding! I know many people can't tolerate cigarette smoke at all. I've never been a smoker but I never minded being around smokers. Back in the '80s, I was always the guy with the "buffer zone" cubicle between a smoker and a non-smoker. This arrangement kept the peace for a while. Sometime during the '90s, the smokers were banished to smoking outside the building. I used to hunt with a guy who actually smoked while he was on the hunt. That's why I know it doesn't run off all of the deer.

[stabow]

You got to be kidding me, your sense of smell is that good, if I ever took a dump at your house you would probably have to call hazmat....stabow

[Grey Taylor]

Not quite sure what you mean there, stabow.
If you're trying to say that you're surprised people can smell items from a smoker's home... all I can surmise is that your sniffer is broken. It's a pretty obvious odor and it sticks to stuff like you wouldn't believe.

Guy