Cover scents and the scent lock clothing have never made sense (ha! thats almost a pun) to me.
My big game experience has been almost 100% on Michigan whitetails. And brother, it’s your scent that discloses your location everytime. They will freeze at a sound or even sight, but if they smell you, they are gone….right now.
I hd an incident 4 seasons ago….I was in a tree inside of a 1/2 acre thicket, in the middle of a 70 acre rolling field. It had been farmed 20 years prior, and had turned into a massive golden rod factory. It didn’t look like deer country at all, but scouting showed trails and runways all through the rolling field. One morning I had 3 mature bucks bed down at 40 yards (I could have killed them all with anything but what I had in hand, a longbow). They rested up for 2 hours before getting up…it was now 6 hours since I had passed through that field. When the lead buck hit my trail, he followed it until he arrived at the spot where I had paused briefly…to get my bearings in the dark….took one snif, and BOOM…..all three bucks ran as if thier were wolves on them.
When I had walked in, I was wearing chest waders so that I could cross a swamp…the only thing not encased in rubber was my arms, upper shoulders and head….that 1 minute (maybe) pause had somehow deposited enough scent to spook that deer. No flippin way would some cover scent made a difference.
I do my best not to stink….but the wind is everything.
