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Storing Hunting Clothes

I bought a "storage closet" type deal. Prefab locker sort of thing with a rack and shelf. Keep them on the rack in there along with some bags of cedar shavings until the night before use then hit em with the Ozonics in a drywash bag. May be a gimic, may work. Who knows.
 
Tupperware (or "Sterilite"; I'm cheap) tubs in a closet. I wash my base and mid layers every time I wear them (I sweat a lot, and synthetic clothes tend to get stanky quickly), but I use the run of the mill "free and clear" detergent and some baking soda, not hunting detergent. During season I hang my most used clothes in my closet for quick access, but store the rest in a closet in the same totes that I use in the off season.
 
I use a $15 scent lock roll top bag. Simple as that. I also have the dead down wind orange bag I use sometimes as well
 
Wash mine in scent free soap then like to air dry if possible. If not I will use the dryer then hang outside for a day. I have three sets of hunting clothes through the season. Each set is stored in one of those giant Ziploc bags. I sprinkle a little baking soda in the bags and some debris from behind my house. I keep each bag in a plastic tub for transportation. Boots are aired out behind the house after the weekend and stored in a tub with debris, my boots never touch pavement.
 
JCDEERMAN said:
Tupperware tubs. Will hang up a day or two before hunting. My boots stay on the front porch of our cabin all hunting season. I'm more of a stickler for my boots "staying clean" than anything else.
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^^Ditto^^

The scent control stuff....ok, maybe

Wind.....1000%

If they're smart, they're gonna bust you PERIOD, scent control or not.

Our Forefathers smokes Lucky Strikes, drinking beer in wood tree stands. We're over thinking it.
 
Sometimes I wonder if all this scent control stuff is just pouring money down the drain. I'll still do it, but can't help to think back to my first hunt ever.

It was in Potter County, PA. Coooooooold. Probably almost a foot of snow on the ground. My girlfriends dad took me hunting. He had hunted all his life, had the bucks on the wall and always a freezer full of meat to show that he was successful, and didn't do ANYTHING for scent control.

So we March into the woods before day break, find a log to sit on just off a trail, and wait. He lights a cigarette, rustles food wrappers, and eventually decides he's cold so hey, lets burn a small fire to warm our feet. I was like, uhhhh, won't this spook deer? He assures me it won't. So we sit there for an hour or 2, smoking cigs, campfire smoke blowing, and he taps me on the shoulder an points. Up the path, here comes a doe. Couldn't tell the age, but we were both frozen still, and this doe walked up so close to me I could have touched her nose.

I finally had to exhale and a big plume of breath came out, and that finally spooked her as she turned tail and ran.

Dumb doe? Too young to know better? Or does all this scent stuff really not matter all that much. I've always wondered that.

Now to go wash my hunting stuff in dead down wind wash, followed by drying it with a dead down wind dryer sheet, spraying my boots with their scent eliminator spray, then shoving it all in the dead down wind scent control bag! Morning before a hunt I'll be washing my body with their body wash, using scent blocker deodorant, wearing regular clothes to the hunting location, then getting dressed and spraying myself with scent eliminator lol.

Does it work? I guess it doesn't hurt anything but my wallet to see!

BT
 
Black Titan said:
Or does all this scent stuff really not matter all that much.
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This is what I tend to believe. I've given it an honest effort and never noticed any difference except an empty wallet. Always made me feel like I'm trying to buy my way into a good hunt rather than just hitting the woods and working for it. If I took all the money I've spent over the years on scent control, camo, gadgets, etc., I could have bought some really fun guided hunts.
 
Ski said:
I do wash my clothes pretty often with scent free soap, and I keep my boots in the bed of my truck. I only wear them in the woods. I wear crocs while driving, then change in and out of the hunting boots for the hunt. I don't store my clothes any differently than any of my other clothes, though.
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Be honest, you wear the crocs to the stand!
 
Built an outside walk-in closet behind my camper. Fresh cedar limbs go on top of the gravel floor, add a few fresh ones every now & then. Clothes & boots stay in there all season .
 
I wash mine with All Free and Clear laundry soap, but splurge for some hunting dryer sheets. I get them when the season is over and they get marked down, Scent-Away, Dead Down Wind, Wildlife Research etc., brand don't matter, they are mostly for the static. I place my clean clothes in an old army wet weather bag, then store in a plastic tote. I used to have some great military totes, airtight and rugged, but they were stolen when they got into my trailer. I just got some replacements but these are not airtight, so may drop a box of baking soda or a moisture absorbent bucket in them. I store everything clothes related in the box, boots socks, extra t-shirts etc, I don't change until I get on site, when I get up in the morning. Every 5th or sixth wash or so, I reapply the permethrin for ticks, seems to work fine right through the washes, at least it seems to since I am tick free when I wear my hunting clothes.
 
Totes from Walmart. Use all free n clear or Astko detergent when I wash. This year I am using the ozone more instead of washing to see if I think one method is more effective.
 
I was in scent free, use earth dryer sheets, put in a plastic tub with earth scent wafers, wash after every hunt. Boxers and socks the same way. When I get to the farm I spray down with dirt scent spray too. Who knows if it works, drives my wife nuts, but I do it. I also paint my face too. Deer can see your face "glow" from the oils in your skin.
 
Tweeter said:
I was in scent free, use earth dryer sheets, put in a plastic tub with earth scent wafers, wash after every hunt. Boxers and socks the same way. When I get to the farm I spray down with dirt scent spray too. Who knows if it works, drives my wife nuts, but I do it. I also paint my face too. Deer can see your face "glow" from the oils in your skin.
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After years of putting camo on my face in the military, I found this and never did it again, even in the military I used it. It is called Spandoflage, used it when I used to bow hunt a lot, but now I am in an elevated shoot house or ladder stand and is less needed, but have a fleece one for warmth.

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I don't guess I have any hunting clothes if that means clothing dedicated to only hunting. I will wash the clothes I plan on hunting in the next day(s) in scent free detergent with a heavy rinse cycle. Dry and hang outside overnight. Once it is really cold, I'm running an outside wood burner and I might stand in front of it with the door open for a few seconds. Since my house is North of most of my hunting areas, wood smoke should be part of the background scent all winter.
 
Black Titan said:
Sometimes I wonder if all this scent control stuff is just pouring money down the drain. I'll still do it, but can't help to think back to my first hunt ever.

It was in Potter County, PA. Coooooooold. Probably almost a foot of snow on the ground. My girlfriends dad took me hunting. He had hunted all his life, had the bucks on the wall and always a freezer full of meat to show that he was successful, and didn't do ANYTHING for scent control.

So we March into the woods before day break, find a log to sit on just off a trail, and wait. He lights a cigarette, rustles food wrappers, and eventually decides he's cold so hey, lets burn a small fire to warm our feet. I was like, uhhhh, won't this spook deer? He assures me it won't. So we sit there for an hour or 2, smoking cigs, campfire smoke blowing, and he taps me on the shoulder an points. Up the path, here comes a doe. Couldn't tell the age, but we were both frozen still, and this doe walked up so close to me I could have touched her nose.

I finally had to exhale and a big plume of breath came out, and that finally spooked her as she turned tail and ran.

Dumb doe? Too young to know better? Or does all this scent stuff really not matter all that much. I've always wondered that.

Now to go wash my hunting stuff in dead down wind wash, followed by drying it with a dead down wind dryer sheet, spraying my boots with their scent eliminator spray, then shoving it all in the dead down wind scent control bag! Morning before a hunt I'll be washing my body with their body wash, using scent blocker deodorant, wearing regular clothes to the hunting location, then getting dressed and spraying myself with scent eliminator lol.

Does it work? I guess it doesn't hurt anything but my wallet to see!

BT
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Ski said:
I admit I did once. Chiggers ate me up so bad I never tried it again!!! Chigger bits between the toes is no fun 🤯
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Hey I love my camo crocs the are super comfortable. And I have wore them to the stand in years past when it's hot in September..
 

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