How do you store your hunting clothes?

[Dry Creek]

I keep my hunting clothes in a Hunters Specialties bag with double zippers. The zipper on the bag messed up yesterday morning. Wondering how you store your hunting clothes, before I buy another bag.

[ChuckC]

I keep a couple days supply in a large tupperware tote, in the back of my truck.  I used to be religious about using the bags and stopped doing that long ago.  I dress behind my truck at the trail head, carry in the outers for once I get to my stand.

ChuckC

Originally posted by Dry Creek:
I keep my hunting clothes in a Hunters Specialties bag with double zippers. The zipper on the bag messed up yesterday morning. Wondering how you store your hunting clothes, before I buy another bag.

If that is the big green scent free bag, that is the same way I store my clothes. I have 3 of those bags, and on 2 of them, the outer zipper is broken. I got a LOT of use out of them before the zippers went bad, so I don't worry about it. I will replace them sometime with new ones, but don't really worry about it cause the inner zipper is still good.

Bisch

[drewsbow]

I use one of those scent lock totes , not so much for the scent lock as the secure lid latches and seal.

[buckeyebowhunter]

I do the same thing that you and bisch do, I have had my green H.S. bags for years and they are still going strong!

[Jake Scott]

I've used about everything, and I like the big dry bags from Sierra Trading Post about the best these days.  I can keep several changes of clothes and my boots in there.  It's all in one place and ready to go when I am.  Like Chuck, I change at the truck, it's a pain when the weather gets cold, but worth it.  Those dry bags are cheap and a lot easier to transport than totes.  Ones mans opinion.

Jake

[reddogge]

Closet.

[Red Beastmaster]

I hang them in a closet and don't worry about it. Critters upwind of me have no idea I'm there.  

[Dry Creek]

Thanks guys
The inner zipper is the one that broke but the outside zipper is still good. May just keep using it for now.

[TGbow]

I try to keep them in a bag or plastic container . The deer I hunt smell all kind of scents like diesel, gas, oil, ect.
The one thing I dont want them to smell is my human body odor. I wash em in bakin soda and I try to stay as clean as possible, and work the wind.

[Matthew Bolton]

Cold weather gear stays in a plastic tub outside and warmer weather gear sits in my closet.

[KSdan]

The moment you touch or put on your clothes they smell like. . . you- a human.  Never going to stop that.  

I put them in a large clear plastic tote boxes with the latch lids.  Keeps things organized.  No need to spend $$ on special bags. If you do want clothes to smell fresh to you (a human nose!), pour baking soda in with the clothes.  Shake them off when you go to wear them and they smell amazingly fresh.

[buckeyebowhunter]

Nothing really special about the green bags. But they are convenient, they are pretty darn durable, and they hold scent in well. I like to wash my clothes with scent free detergent then throw them in the bags with a couple "fresh-earth" scent wafers. Like others have said you still need to play the wind. Doing this with your clothes may not be necessary but it puts my mind at ease a little when i smell like a dirt ball in the woods! I also just like the smell of the scent wafers, reminds me of hunting season    :D    :D

[FoCoBlackWidow]

After washing with baking soda I usually put my clothes in a waterproof compression sack so I'm ready for my next trip. I store those inside a big Rubbermaid tote with some other gear and the combination seems to work fine.

[LB_hntr]

I just throw mine in plastic bins. one for hats, gloves, rain gear etc. one for wool, one for tops, one for bottoms, and one for thermals.
Then just throw them in the rafters of my garage. they spend all year up there in car exahust, quad exaust, heads being boiled, traps boiled, lawnmower fumes, kerosne heater running, etc. (point being i dont worry about protecting them until i need them) Then i take out what i need and wash it and hunt in it. What i wash stays in a bin in the house for the season then goes back in the garage.

[Bear Heart]

Originally posted by LB_hntr:
I just throw mine in plastic bins. one for hats, gloves, rain gear etc. one for wool, one for tops, one for bottoms, and one for thermals.
Then just throw them in the rafters of my garage. they spend all year up there in car exahust, quad exaust, heads being boiled, traps boiled, lawnmower fumes, kerosne heater running, etc. (point being i dont worry about protecting them until i need them) Then i take out what i need and wash it and hunt in it. What i wash stays in a bin in the house for the season then goes back in the garage.

That is pretty close to what I do.

[DWT]

Store in large plastic containers, wash with scent free detergent just before season and then stick some cedar branches and leaves in with the clothing a week or two before season.

[BUCKY]

plastic bins with snap latches in my hunting stuff closet. my bows are in there too.

[Bowwild]

Plano hinged tote boxes.

[Sam McMichael]

Mostly, the closet. Wool stuff is kept in a cedar chest. Once you put on clothes, they smell like a human. Even if the clothes themselves have no odor, the human body will immediately give you away. I rely on hunting the wind. While I don't knock any efforts to keep clothes odorless, I just don't think it affects what a deer smells in the woods.