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Dave wrote:
“As we move through the woods we transfer body scent to vegetation from every body contact. So do all you can not to contact vegetation by stepping over it, going around it, and packing some pocket-sized Fisker garden snippers and clipping limbs across paths you regularly use. Avoid using your hands to move limbs out of the way or lean on trees for balance — a majority of the scent we leave behind comes from our hands. Have a clean body and clean clothes. Use a cover scent on the fronts and outsides of your pants and shirt or jacket arms and use those arms rather than hands to push limbs aside when you move. And don’t forget your shoe laces! How many of us wear “scent proof” rubber boots, such as the beloved LL Bean Maine Hunting Shoe, yet never give a thought to the tremendous amount of scent we transfer to our shoe laces every time we lace up? Use cover scent. Carry a small foam pad to sit on. It keeps your butt warm and dry and keeps scent off the places you sit. And more. I do these things instinctively and manage to hunt dense woods right in amongst ’em and come and go on the same route every day for a month, and never get busted … any more. In the early days I did stupid things like spray waterproofer onto boots and wondered why all the elk disappeared after a few days. This caution is as critical for tree-stand guys as it is for me.”
It is funny how a decade of failures can be compiled into a one paragraph!
By following simple procedures, game can be had at reasonable ranges. The “trick” is in the understanding of the procedures.
I view this in the same way as my Christian faith. If you read The Book, you come away with a very simple Salvation. People can’t believe how simple it truly is and so they complicate it with rules, regulations and labels.
My own scent procedure includes storing my cloths (after air drying) in a garbage bag that has Adler and Cedar twigs with leaves and keeping the rubber boots far from the garage and house.
Even if it didn’t help, I like the Cedar scent.
If I could just keep the wood peckers away!