How do you guys prepare your Hunting Clothes

[Sam McMichael]

I don't do anything special. I wash or dry clean when they get dirty, but I just don't have faith in the scent control stuff. Therefore, I don't do any of the odor control things like special soaps or storing in a bag of pine needles, etc. A deer can smell your body, so it does not make much difference if he can smell your clothes. I think it is best just to carefully hunt the wind. I used to do a lot of odor control but did not see any better results.

[njloco]

I put everything in a plastic bag, hook up my ozone generator and zap em. this leaves them smelling like they have been hanging outside forever with absolutely no odor left at all.

[GardenerHunting]

I go to a swimming pool supply store and buy a 50lb bag of Baking soda.I wash all my hunting stuff with it. We also wash all of our regular laundry  with it. We also use All Free and Clear for all laundry hunting and regular. I figure a washer is bound to have hold oder from house hold laundry. I also store all my hunting stuff with cedar chips. A big bag is cheap where ever pet supplies are sold.Take a old sock throw it in with wash and dryer everything is cedar fresh. There are alot of Cedar trees most places I hunt.

[DayTripper]

Originally posted by Bjorn:
About the only thin I do is sprinkle in some baking soda on my clothes and make sure I spend a little time standing in the first cow pie that comes along-Elk poo works great too. Bring wind indicator and use it often!

Ditto cow pie and elk poo. I also stopped using fragant soap few couple days before.

[darin putman]

I stop at every road kill along the way and get out and roll in it, oh that's what my dog does not me. I use baking soda for laundry and shower with unscented soap about it besides airing out my gear.

[wapitirod]

I wash mine in the machine with the HS Scent Killer/UV detergent and then dry with the same brand of earth scented dryer sheets.  When I get where I'm going I put a HS wafer on my hat and spray down witht the scent killer.

[Rustic]

I'll hand wash everything with scent free laundry detergent and baking soda. Line dry it outside near a bon-fire, then store everything in plastic bins with some pine branches and oak leaves.

[centaur]

I like the elk poo solution, and fresh pee works, too. I rub my clothes with sagebrush as I move around, as well as pine tar. Wood smoke is another scent I like to have on my clothes.

[Yelloweye]

Arm & Hammer unscented wash, Baking soda rinse, sometimes Baking Soda in the storage bag.
I do this in the washer cause my tub got used so until I get a new tub I will have to clean out the washing Mech. & rinse with baking soda. Heavy cloths are stored in a cedar closet. Like to make my own cover sent made from stuff from the area I hunt. But sometimes in the early season that attracts more bees than covers any up I guess. Where I hunt deer seem scarce and are hunted hard try to get an edge even if it just in my head

[Eric Krewson]

I don't take any special scent precautions and feel most of the commercial scent eliminators are just another gimmick to separate hunters from their cash.

I hunt the wind, works every time.

I do keep my wool clothes in a tub with some cedar sticks in it. This is to keep moths from munching on my wool, not for scent control.

[reddogge]

Remove from hanger. Put on body. Go hunt. Been doing that since 1967.

[ronp]

My wool is stored in air tight containers.  I will hang them out a couple weeks before hunting season, then store them back in the containers for the drive to my hunting area.  I wash my hunting tee shirts and moisture wicking under garments in some of the UV free laundery detergent.  I'm starting to believe in that UV free stuff.

[Hunter74]

Originally posted by ChuckC:
 I play the wind, religiously.  I am thinking now that most times, all the rest really doesn't matter a bit.  If you are upwind. .  you're busted.

ChuckC

BINGO! You can not beat a deer's nose. The biggest trick I've found is to use milk weed seeds to see what the wind is doing. They'll float for a long ways and you can see what the wind is doing right next to you as well as 100 yrds away. It's amazing how things can effect how your wind travels, learning thermals is key. Once you get a good understanding of what the wind and thermals are doing you can hunt what seems like the wrong wind when really your wind is going over the top of the deer or getting pushed out put by a crosswind.

[Muss03]

I wash my hunting clothes in the HS scent killer detergent and keep them in a plastic bin until I hunt. I also use the scent free soap and deoderant. Honestly, I started seeing alot more deer and started having much more sucess when I started wearing knee high, rubber boots. I keep them in a seperate plastic bin and spray them down literally, right before I walk to my stand. Prior to that I have watched more than one buck approaching my stand only to stop and tear off the other way as soon as he crossed a trail that I had used.  I keep those boots for bow hunting only and I have had them for years. It has made a huge difference.

[stujay]

Do the best with what you choose for your clothes, but hunt into the wind!!!

[machinist]

Originally posted by TooManyHobbies:
I just put them on and go. I'd rather hunt than wash clothes.

I am with you, take it off the hanger and go withit!

[3arrows]

5 gallon bucket full of cold water,1/4 cup hydrogen peroxide 1/4 cup baking soda soak 5 min line dry.If home wife takes care off them.

[razorsharptokill]

Wash, dry, hang, hunt... with the wind in my favor.

[buckeye_hunter]

smoke 'em. Seems to work really well. I rub my boots in the old ashes after the fire is long since out.


Honestly, I have had many deer on public land walk on or across the trail I walked in on without any concern. Obviously, if the deer are downwind, they will smell you no matter what you do. I think the smoke helps eliminate any human scent you might leave behind by rubbing on brush etc. while walking into your hunting area.

The other thing I do is step in a puddle or walk through some water. Smoke and water seem to do a good job. I don't wash wool and I only wash the cottons when they need it with some baking soda.

Your mileage may vary.

God bless,
Charlie

[redant 60/65]

Before ever hunt I stand by a smokey fire with my hunting clothes on it's a great cover up.