R2 wrote: A friend of mine, many, many years ago, when we were on a bow hunt in the Guadalupe’s in NM learned that there’s some cover scents that ain’t too cool.

Makes one a really unwelcome member of the hunting camp and the evening campfire.

Deer also go around this odor.

I like to pick some fresh hemlock or pine sprigs around my ground blind…it also pads the bottom of a back quiver quite nicely…has proven to work on deer at less than ten yards